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Article: Huckabee, Romney Make Sunday Push for Evangelicals
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 31, 2007
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Republican rivals Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney took their battle
over Christian voters to the pews as both attended services while
their campaigns spanned Iowa in a final Sunday pitch to
evangelicals.
With Christian conservatives expected to make up as much as 40
percent of Republican caucusgoers, Romney dispatched surrogates to
meet with pastors in the far corners of Iowa, hoping to blunt
Huckabee's momentum among evangelicals. On Friday, three national
religious leaders backing Huckabee -- Tim LaHaye, Michael Farris
and Rick Scarborough -- convened a conference call with Iowa
pastors to urge them to use Sunday's services to drive up
participation by Christian voters, who polls ...