A presidential campaign exposes candidates' strengths and weaknesses. The strengths they're eager to tell you about. So let's look at the weaknesses.
Start with Rick Santorum, whose poll numbers in New Hampshire and South Carolina have been surging since (by last count) he lost the Iowa caucuses by the Chinese lucky number of 8 votes.
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Elections are contests held during a moment in time between candidates who have records stretching back, often far back, into the past. So there is always a tension between the man (or woman) who is running and the moment.
That tension is greater than usual when the contest is for the nomination of a political party dominated by a large number of newcomers to politics motivated by strong opposition to current policies.
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Election year has finally arrived, well after the beginning of a turbulent and unpredictable elections season, and voting begins two days from now in the Iowa Republicans caucuses.
The few days of post-Christmas polling have shown the numbers oscillating and opinion changing in ways it hadn't been earlier in the campaign.
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By Robert W. Patterson
11/01/11 11:23 PM
When they unveiled their tax plans last month, former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain and Texas Gov. Rick Perry missed a golden opportunity: to cast an alternative to the economic growth narrative that holds the Republican Party captive to Wall Street and blind to middle-class anxieties.
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Ken Klukowski and Ken Blackwell
10/27/11 10:16 PM
Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s plan for fundamental tax reform, with an optional flat tax, is a fiscal game-changer and demonstrably superior to the proposals of rivals Herman Cain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry had intended to revive his floundering presidential campaign with release Tuesday of a sweeping economic plan, but he undercut his message with comments indulging those who question whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States.
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Memo to the Rick Perry campaign: If your guy can’t win an exchange with Mitt Romney over who’s stuck to principle more consistently, his debating skills need serious work. That’s what happened at the Sept. 22 Republican debate in Orlando, Fla. After deflating Perry with a “nice try,” Romney brazenly proclaimed, “One reason to elect me is that I know what I stand for, I’ve written it down. Words have meaning.”
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A peripheral skirmish between Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Sen. Rick Santorum over allowing states to legalize same-sex marriage and medical marijuana could mark an important turning point in a long-running philosophical debate within the conservative movement.
To be sure, there’s nothing new about conflict between social-conservative and libertarian Republicans when it comes to the role of government in moral issues.
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