Amy Goodman
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Santorum's Lead Signals Divided GOP Base; Paul Gains From Dems' Disenchantment With Obama
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January 4, 2012
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18:09Now Playingwww.democracynow.org — Many Iowans from both sides of the political aisle say they voted largely out of protest to the available field of leading candidates in Tuesday's caucuses. Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum secured second place in the state's Republican caucus with a last-minute boost from Christian evangelicals opposed to Mitt Romney. "I think [Santorum] succeeded by being a stealth candidate who was under the radar screen, [with] no attacks [from rivals]," says Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News, who has long followed Santorum. We also speak with Ed Fallon, a former Democratic member of the Iowa General Assembly who urged fellow Dems to attend Republican caucuses and support the least extreme candidates. Fallon says he backed Texas Rep. Ron Paul in the hope that he will push Obama "to do more of what we thought he would do: push him on Afghanistan, on Iraq, on Iran; on things like the PATRIOT Act and the National Defense Authorization Act; on the corporate domination of our economy as we've seen represented by the Occupy Wall Street movement."
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