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.<\/p>\n
But at the end of this day, the Laurens nurse practitioner was still mulling her decision in Saturday\u2019s GOP primary, not quite content with GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney and perhaps leaning slightly toward Santorum.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going in with an open mind,\u201d\u009d she said before attending the forum sponsored by the grass-roots anti-abortion organization Personhood USA. Romney\u2019s absence from the forum \u201d\u201d deftly noted by the forum organizers and his opponents \u201d\u201d troubled her. But she came away impressed by Santorum\u2019s anti-abortion stance as well as his overall demeanor.<\/p>\n