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2012 Candidates Weekly Update 1/25/11

Michele Bachmann (link is external)

SOTU(link is external): Plans to give her own State of the Union Response to a Tea Party Express rally, even though Wisconsin Rep. Jim Ryan is the official Republican speaker (Star Tribune, 1/24).

History(link is external): Maintains that skin color didn’t matter in early America at an Iowans for Tax Reform event (TPM, 1/24).

Religious Right(link is external): Addressed the “March for Life” Rose Dinner (Politico, 1/24).

Iowa(link is external): “Encouraged” by reception at Iowa events (Des Moines Register, 1/22).

Religious Right(link is external): Set to attend a meeting of Iowa’s The Family Leader, led by Bob Vander Plaats (RWW, 1/20).

Newt Gingrich
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2012(link is external): Considering a presidential bid with a campaign based in Georgia (AJC, 1/21).

Religious Right(link is external): Set to attend a meeting of Iowa’s The Family Leader, led by Bob Vander Plaats (RWW, 1/20).

Rudy Giuliani (link is external)

2012(link is external): Floats potential presidential bid despite 2008 defeat (TPM, 1/25).

Palin(link is external): Claims that a Palin candidacy would increase his chance of running (WSJ, 1/21).

Mike Huckabee (link is external)

Debates(link is external): Won’t attend early debates in order to preserve his summer deadline (Politico, 1/24).

2012(link is external): Must decide whether to give up media “mini-empire” for a presidential run (LA Times, 1/21).

Sarah Palin(link is external)

Texas(link is external): Spoke about how Alaska and Texas are both “good beacons of freedom” at a fundraiser for the Lubbock Christian School (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, 1/25).

Media(link is external): Dana Milbank proposes a month-long media boycott of covering Palin (WaPo, 1/21).

Tim Pawlenty
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Book(link is external): Releases video advertisement promoting new book, Courage to Stand (TPM, 1/24).

Religious Right(link is external): Set to attend a meeting of Iowa’s The Family Leader, led by Bob Vander Plaats (RWW, 1/18).

Mike Pence (link is external)

Religious Right(link is external): Addressed the “March for Life” in Washington, DC (Politico, 1/24).

GOP(link is external): May be able to unite economic and social conservatives better than Mike Huckabee (Religion Dispatches, 1/21).

South Carolina(link is external): Group of South Carolina state legislators launches a “Draft Pence” effort (RWW, 1/20).

Mitt Romney (link is external)

Poll(link is external): Leads all other rivals in national poll of Republican voters with 24% (Rasmussen Reports, 1/24).

New Hampshire(link is external): Wins New Hampshire GOP straw poll (Christian Science Monitor, 1/22).

Health Care(link is external): Rove says Romney must respond to criticisms about his health care reform law in Massachusetts (Political Wire, 1/20).

Rick Santorum (link is external)

Reproductive Rights(link is external): Defends criticism of Obama’s views on choice in an Op-Ed for the National Review (NRO, 1/24).

Iowa(link is external): Set to attend a meeting of Iowa’s The Family Leader, led by Bob Vander Plaats (RWW, 1/20).

Religious Right(link is external): Uses Obama’s race to attack his stance on abortion-rights, slams gay adoption (RWW, 1/19).

John Thune (link is external)

Tea Party(link is external): May have trouble with Tea Party voters over his support for ethanol industry subsidies (The Argus Leader, 1/23).

New Hampshire(link is external): Thune fundraisers “making calls in New Hampshire on Thune’s behalf” (The Argus Leader, 1/21).