Monday, January 16, 2012


GOP Candidates Scramble to Overcome Evangelical Support for Santorum


Rick Santorum received 85 of 114 votes on the third ballot at a gathering of religious leaders on a ranch near Bleiblerville, Texas, defeating former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, told reporters during a conference call Saturday. (AP Photo)

GOP presidential contenders scrambled Sunday to overcome a major evangelical Christian endorsement of Rick Santorum by a group of U.S. family and religious leaders. It was a last-ditch effort for social conservatives to coalesce behind one Republican presidential candidate as an alternative to frontrunner Mitt Romney on the final Sunday worship services before the Jan. 21 primary in South Carolina.
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