Two top leaders of the state's religious right endorse the trailing candidate, but it is unclear whether their constituents will follow suit
Two Iowa social conservative leaders endorsed Rick Santorum for president Tuesday, the end of a long saga of difficult deliberations that epitomized the religious right's inability to settle on a single 2012 candidate.
Though the Family Leader as an organization opted to stay neutral, its president and CEO, Bob Vander Plaats, threw his support behind the former Pennsylvania senator. "I really believe he could be the Huckabee in this race," said Vander Plaats, who chaired Mike Huckabee's successful 2008 Iowa campaign.
At the same Des Moines-area news conference, Chuck Hurley, president of the Iowa Family Policy Center, also personally endorsed Santorum. "I urge every undecided Iowa caucus-goer to take a close look at Rick, to study the Scriptures, to pray hard and to vote their conscience, for above all, we answer to God for our vote," Hurley said.
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