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2012 Candidates Weekly Update 2/15/11

Michele Bachmann(link is external)

New Hampshire(link is external): Announces intention to visit New Hampshire at CPAC (Minnesota Independent, 2/14).

CPAC(link is external): Uses faulty tax math at her CPAC speech (WaPo, 2/11).

Health Care(link is external): Says that repealing reform law is “the driving motivation of my life” (RWW, 2/10).

Haley Barbour (link is external)

Immigration(link is external): Lobbied for Mexico to support the extension of an “amnesty” program (Salon, 2/14).

Lobbying(link is external): Politico looks into conflicts of interest as Governor after lobbying for tobacco industry (Politico, 2/14).

Iowa(link is external): Plans to address a Republican fundraiser in Iowa on March 15 (The Note, 2/14).

Mitch Daniels(link is external)

Tea Party(link is external): Rush Limbaugh thinks Daniels is trying “to discredit talk radio and the tea party movement” (Politico, 2/14).

CPAC(link is external): Speech on debt receives rave reviews from pundits, but Daniels wins just four percent of straw poll votes (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 2/14).

Education(link is external): Pushes dramatic school vouchers bill despite cuts to public education (Evansville Courier & Press, 2/13).

Jon Huntsman(link is external)

Utah(link is external): The former Utah governor trails Romney among state’s Republicans (Desert News, 2/12).

2012(link is external): Hires staff for his leadership PAC (Politico, 2/11).

Mike Huckabee(link is external)

Religious Right(link is external): Criticizes GOProud during CPAC controversy (GOP12, 2/11).

Poll(link is external): Leading Republican choice on who would make a good president (The Atlantic, 2/11).

Sarah Palin (link is external)

Poll(link is external): Struggles in polls of early primary states (Politico, 2/14).

Budget(link is external): Uses phony data to critique Obama’s proposed budget (CBS News, 2/14).

PAC(link is external): Hires chief of staff for leadership PAC (CNN, 2/11).

Tim Pawlenty (link is external)

Religious Right(link is external): Plans to attend Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition meeting in Iowa in March (Iowa Independent, 2/14).

Florida(link is external): Set to address Florida’s Republican state legislators (Florida Times Union, 2/11).

CPAC(link is external): Attacks President Obama as weak in CPAC speech (RWW, 2/11).

Mitt Romney(link is external)

New Hampshire(link is external): Has support of 40% of New Hampshire GOP primary voters in WMUR Granite State poll (WMUR, 2/14).

Nevada(link is external): Meets with supporters in the early caucus state (LVRJ, 2/14).

Health Care(link is external): Massachusetts reform law continues to haunt Romney among conservatives (The Plum Line, 2/14).

Rick Santorum (link is external)

Religious Right(link is external): Plans to attend Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition meeting in Iowa in March (Iowa Independent, 2/14).

Palin(link is external): Runs away from criticizing Palin after she calls him a “Neanderthal” (PoliticalWire, 2/10).

CPAC(link is external): Criticizes judiciary and defends social conservatism at CPAC (RWW, 2/10).