(AP) DENVER Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Thursday called on rival Tom Tancredo to stop airing a “blatantly dishonest” campaign ad in Iowa that accuses Huckabee of favoring amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Huckabee said Tancredo either did sloppy research or deliberately mischaracterized Huckabee’s position.
Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback is reaching out aggressively to communities, including influential evangelical leaders, weeks ahead of the Aug. 11 straw poll in Ames, Iowa.
The Kansas senator who describes himself as a “bleeding heart conservative” met with more than 15 evangelical pastors in West Des Moines this week and said religious conservatives are moving in his direction as they become aware of his position opposing abortion and gay marriage.
“It’s typical in an election that people hold back and want to get a good feel for the candidate,” said Brownback, according to The Associated Press. “Now we’re getting within eyeshot of Aug. 11 and they’re breaking and a lot of them are breaking our way.”
And the evangelical Christian community is an essential part of his plan as he looks to finish strong in the straw poll. He says his “pro-life/whole-life message” is resonating with evangelicals.
“I think it’s critical and I think we’re doing pretty well. We are reaching out aggressively to a number of communities and the evangelical is a key one of them,” said Brownback, according to AP.
Filed under: weight loss
A weighty new study released last week suggested that if you can’t make your podgy friends purge, you might have to purge your podgy friends. Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that having a portly pal increased a person’s chances of becoming obese by a whopping 57-percent. That’s right, the weight of your friend Jim matters more than how much weight you lift in the gym.
The most amazing part of the research revealed that having a best friend who became obese increased your risk 171 percent, even if your chum lives hundreds of miles away. Who would have guessed that Twinkies were telepathic?
