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Reuters: South Carolina in Mind, Republicans Stress Social Stances

 

A look at what's ahead, after today's voting in New Hampshire:

...Abortion rights and same-sex marriage were among the issues that came up in the ABC News debate at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire.

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum led the charge at the ABC News debate, declaring that marriage is a federal issue that should be defined as being between a man and a woman - even though he said in the same breath that the question of same-sex couples to adopt children was a "states rights" issue.

... South Carolina, which holds its primary on January 21, has a heavy concentration of social conservatives who are thought more willing to assess a candidate based on his or her views on abortion or gay marriage.

As in Iowa, where Santorum's campaign sprang to life, about 60 percent of Republican voters in South Carolina typically identify themselves in exit polls as born-again or evangelical Christians. Among that demographic in Iowa, Santorum finished first, with 32 percent support; Romney was at 14 percent, according to the Pew Forum on Religion and Republic Life. -- Reuters

2 Comments

  1. John Noe
    Posted January 10, 2012 at 2:59 pm | Permalink

    South Carolina is the perfect spot to jumpstart the campaign on sodomite marriage. We should use SC as the springboard to promote this issue nationally.
    Before you know it Super Tuesday will be hear on March 6th where 20 states have primaries. Mine is one of them and I have changed my voter status so that I can vote in the election.
    I am a former liberal turned conservative who no longer wishes to be labeled at the polls as a Democrat. There are many more like me.

    Let us keep the fires burning on this issue.

  2. OrthodoxJew
    Posted January 11, 2012 at 10:58 am | Permalink

    John Noe:
    I'm with you all the way!
    If you want to keep the fires burning, vote for Rick Santorum!