Republican Candidates Mix Appeals to Economic Woes With Hard Line on Religion | The Nation
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If Paul is Bachmann’s competition for the gun lovers, Perry may be her toughest competition for the God vote. But many voters I talked to in Ames, even admittedly Christian, anti-choice, anti–gay marriage ones, did not seemed particularly moved to change their vote based on Perry’s prayer rally in Houston the previous weekend. Two Bachmann volunteers, both from Minnesota, one a “social issues” voter and the other a “fiscal issues” voter, both dismissed Perry as not pure enough from either of their perspectives.