Sherry Hampton spent much of Wednesday weighing the virtues of the five Republican presidential candidates, attending an afternoon town hall meeting for Rick Santorum, then venturing with her four children and mother to a pro-life forum that featured Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and, via satellite, Ron Paul.
But at the end of this day, the Laurens nurse practitioner was still mulling her decision in Saturday’s GOP primary, not quite content with GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney and perhaps leaning slightly toward Santorum.
“We are going in with an open mind,” she said before attending the forum sponsored by the grass-roots anti-abortion organization Personhood USA. Romney’s absence from the forum ”” deftly noted by the forum organizers and his opponents ”” troubled her. But she came away impressed by Santorum’s anti-abortion stance as well as his overall demeanor.
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(The State) [South Carolina] Evangelicals weigh their GOP choices
Sherry Hampton spent much of Wednesday weighing the virtues of the five Republican presidential candidates, attending an afternoon town hall meeting for Rick Santorum, then venturing with her four children and mother to a pro-life forum that featured Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and, via satellite, Ron Paul.
But at the end of this day, the Laurens nurse practitioner was still mulling her decision in Saturday’s GOP primary, not quite content with GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney and perhaps leaning slightly toward Santorum.
“We are going in with an open mind,” she said before attending the forum sponsored by the grass-roots anti-abortion organization Personhood USA. Romney’s absence from the forum ”” deftly noted by the forum organizers and his opponents ”” troubled her. But she came away impressed by Santorum’s anti-abortion stance as well as his overall demeanor.
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