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Opinion Can Santorum Win Over South Floridians?
Coral Springs, Fla. — It doesn’t take long to find Obama voters in the synagogues and retirement communities of Jewish south Florida. Mitt Romney has fans here, too. Newt Gingrich supporters are a little harder to come by. And Jewish Rick Santorum supporters? In two and a half days of talking to Jews here, the Forward…
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Fast Forward Cantor May Endorse a Presidential Candidate
Eric Cantor says he may step into the Republican presidential race after all. The No. 2 House Republican said he might make an endorsement before a nominee is decided, MSNBC reported Friday. “The more we can coalesce around a single nominee the more straightforward the choice will be for the for American people,” said Cantor,…
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Fast Forward Santorum Claims Belated Win in Iowa
Remember the Iowa caucuses? Well, there’s a new winner in Des Moines. Republican Rick Santorum claimed a delayed-reaction victory after a final count showed him ahead of frontrunner Mitt Romney by 34 votes. The original count on the January 3 election night showed Romney on top by 8 votes. But certified results found Santorum received…
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Opinion Perry Drops Out, Boosts Newt’s New Surge
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, throwing his support to Newt Gingrich. Perry, who was trailing the rest of the Republican field in national and South Carolina polls, received less than 1% of the vote in the January 10 New Hampshire primary. But Perry did pull…
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Opinion Remember Iowa? Santorum Really Won
Remember the Iowa caucuses? Well, there’s a new winner in Des Moines. Republican Rick Santorum claimed a delayed-reaction victory after a final count showed him ahead of frontrunner Mitt Romney by 34 votes. The original count on the January 3 election night showed Romney on top by 8 votes. But certified results found Santorum received…
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Opinion Watch What You Wish For, GOP
Now that the New Hampshire GOP primary results are in, pro-Israel Republicans might want to sit back, take a deep breath and do some long, hard thinking. As much as they’d like to see President Obama booted from the White House next fall, they’d be wise to be careful what they wish for. Especially if…
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Opinion ‘Fred Who’ Wins 346 Votes
Fred Karger, the gay Jewish Republican presidential candidate the Forward profiled last week, had a bit of a rough time in the New Hampshire primaries last night. Karger, whose slogan is “Fred Who?”, garnered 346 votes, good for about .1% of the GOP vote. He did have a dogfight with former candidate Michele Bachmann, whose…
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Opinion No Contest for Tiny New Hampshire Jewish Vote
Republicans talked tough on Iran in the lead-up to today’s New Hampshire primary, but it wasn’t Jewish voters they were hoping to impress. At the January 7 Republican presidential debate, Rick Santorum called Iran “the most pressing issue we deal with today.” Frontrunner Mitt Romney accused President Obama of failing to demonstrate to the Iranians…
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