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...will judge whether living in a foreign country at the age of 10 prepares one to face the big, complex international challenges the next President will face," Clinton, the former First Lady who has spent seven years on the Senate Armed Services Committee, told supporters Nov. 20 in Shenandoah, Iowa. "I think we need a President with more experience than that...
...inaugurated, not only will the country look at itself differently, but the world will look at America differently," Obama told an audience in Audubon, Iowa, last month, "because not only do I have the experience of working at the highest levels of government on foreign policy but also because the leaders of others counties will know that I've got family members that live in small villages in Africa that are poor so I know what they're going through." It is an argument he has made in most of his stump speeches lately, as he tries to show that...
...Romney is hardly abandoning Evangelical voters without a fight. This week alone he has David Keane, chairman of the American Conservative Union, coming in to make phone calls; James Bopp, a leading Right to Life lawyer, heading to Iowa to hold activist meetings; and Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law & Justice, is scheduled to fly in for meetings of his own on behalf of the campaign. That's not to mention the national address Romney gave last week on his faith to try and put to rest worries about Mormonism. Gettemy, who was once leery...
...Douglas Gross, chairman of Romney's campaign in Iowa, points to Romney's relative stability in the polls as evidence that he already has a strong base with defense and fiscal conservatives in Iowa. "What has happened is you've had an underperformance by some of the candidates, particularly [former Tennessee Senator Fred] Thompson, Giuliani and [Arizona Senator John] McCain, and as they've gone down, Huckabee has picked up those numbers," Gross said. "But Governor Romney's support has really been quite stable...
...Steve Scheffler, head of the Iowa Christian Alliance, said Romney has a good chance of splitting off some Evangelical voters because his platform has the necessary core beliefs: right to life, ban on gay marriage, school choice. "They're not a monolithic group," said Scheffler, who is also not endorsing a candidate this cycle. "They're basically bound together by very common positions on a variety of issues, but beyond that - putting those priorities in order of importance is not always a uniform of thought. Certainly other issues then come into play...