(Video) Texas and Minnesota reporters give perspective on Bachmann and Perry
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 9:07 am
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This week’s GOP presidential debate in Michigan featured nine candidates vying for the party’s nomination in 2012. Among the participants were U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Texas Governor Rick Perry, both candidates who at one time led in the polls, only to rapidly lose Republican support.
According to a new Gallup poll, only 9 percent (for Perry) and 3 percent (for Bachmann) of Republican voters see them as the likely candidate to receive the nomination.
Minnesota Independent reporter Andy Birkey and Texas Independent editor Patrick Michels discussed how their home-state candidate is viewed back home, how religion plays a big part in both candidates’ politics and the “outsider” personas they have cultivated on their way to the national stage.
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Comment posted November 11, 2011 @ 1:28 pm
The GOP didn’t even want to deal with economic issues at all. They found it more important to waste their time on segregating the heterosexual community from the homosexual community with this marriage amendment I, as well as a whole lot of others, will spend our precious time trying to defeat. I wish our lgbt brains could spend our time focusing on matters of the economy instead of the matter of marriage equality. It’s aggravating.
Comment posted November 13, 2011 @ 8:26 am
Legally sanctioned discrimination against GLBT citizens in marriage, employment, housing, benefits, taxes, insurance, the military, inheritance and memberships ARE matters of the economy. Discrimination is EXPENSIVE. And the kicker is, GLBT citizens are forced to pay a higher rate of taxes to fund the Government and States that provide these special rights, jobs and benefits to opposite sexual individuals and their families.
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