Report: Santorum raises $2 million in two days since Iowa caucuses
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 6th, 2012 5:35 am by HL
Report: Santorum raises $2 million in two days since Iowa caucuses
A bounce of momentum in the polls isn’t the only thing that candidates can get after winning the Iowa caucuses.
Rick Santorum’s campaign has pulled in $2 million in the two days since the former Pennsylvania senator came just a hair shy of winning Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential contest, ABC News reports.
Santorum plays down long history as Washington insider
Rick Santorum has vaulted to the front ranks of the Republican presidential nomination race in part by depicting himself as a religious family man of lowly beginnings who would bring needed change to Washington.
But that characterization leaves out two decades in which Santorum was a central and often high-ranking player in Washington politics, with connections to K Street lobbyists and a lucrative consulting career that made him a millionaire.
Michele Bachmann raises the fashion bar for female politicians
Michele Bachmann lost the Iowa caucus — but won the fashion race. Yes, we are going there. Let’s not pretend voters don’t notice what candidates wear — heck, Rick Santorum acknowledged he wears sweater vests to look more mature. And they definitely notice the choices of female candidates, who don’t have the suit-shirt-tie uniform to fall back on.
Romney fights high expectations in New Hampshire primary
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Every New Hampshire presidential primary is different from the others, and that is certainly the case this year. So far, it is the least-dramatic contested Republican primary in three decades. For Mitt Romney, that’s both a blessing and a possible curse.
The former Massachusetts governor flew out of the state Thursday for an overnight campaign trip to South Carolina, leaving the Granite State to rivals Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Jon Huntsman Jr. (Ron Paul was away.) His departure was evidence more of his recognition that South Carolina looms as the biggest of the first three tests for his candidacy than of overconfidence about his standing in New Hampshire.
