Sunday, January 1, 2012

Leadership profile:

Rick Santorum seen as diligent, dedicated (part 6 in a series)

A drubbing on election night five years ago still haunts Rick Santorum’s bid for the presidency.

But relentless campaigning in all 99 Iowa counties and several key endorsements from social conservative leaders signal the Pennyslvania Republican has the potential to make a respectable showing in the 2012 Iowa caucuses.

Santorum shocked the experts in Pennsylvania in 1990 when the brash 32-year-old political novice unseated seven-term incumbent Democrat Doug Walgren for a U.S. House seat.

He proved it was no fluke when he won two years later in a newly drawn district. Then he was elected twice to the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, considered a swing state..... Read More

BONUS!!! See 230+ photos of Rick Santorum campaigning in Iowa.

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