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Launching Catholics for McCain, rolling out new leadership for his religious coalition in Iowa and airing a TV ad about bonding with one of his POW camp guards over a cross, the man who once denounced Christian-right leaders as "agents of intolerance" is making an 11th-hour appeal to religious voters. Behind John McCain's turnaround: Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, who endorsed the Arizona Senator after ending his own presidential campaign. The case Brownback is making to James Dobson and others is that McCain's anti-abortion record, foreign policy credentials and electability deserve a second look...
Campaign Insider. Fred Thompson's Iowa press aide is used to the limelight...
...MISS IOWA 2004--CAROLYN NICHOLAS Haugland--had sung at many political events, from Governor Chet Culver's inauguration to visits by President George W. Bush. But former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson was the first candidate to really inspire her. After singing for his Sept. 6 campaign launch in Des Moines, the 27-year-old real estate lawyer gave her résumé to Bob Haus, Thompson's Iowa state director. Within a week she was hired as the campaign's Iowa communications director, even though she had had only one political internship. "I will always take someone with passion as well...
...recent weeks, David Welch, the Pastor Council's director, has been traveling through Iowa to educate religious leaders about their legal rights to motivate evangelicals to attend the caucuses. He has provided churches with phone scripts and a automated phone calling service so pastors can encourage their members to turn out Thursday night. "God's word directs us in Exodus 18:21 to choose for rulers 'just men who will rule in the fear of God,'" reads one sample script. "We do that here by attending our precinct caucuses and bringing our faith and values with...
...said he is more interested in getting people to the caucus than in bending their ears about supporting Huckabee. "Rural Iowa, or rural Minnesota, in some ways, it's sort of timeless," he said of politicking in Algona. "It's still a lot of small-town elbow rubbing. It's not organized. It takes place over a piece...