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GOP candidates vie for voters’ trust in fluid Iowa

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

GOP candidates vie for voters’ trust in fluid Iowa

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — In the kickoff contest of the 2012 presidential race, Republican candidates argued up to today’s finish line in Iowa over which candidate is a conservative that voters can trust and who they can count on to defeat President Barack Obama. With large numbers of likely caucus-goers still undecided or willing to change their minds as the Iowa race wound down, Mitt Romney, a confident-but-cautious front-runner, said he was poised to claim “the kind of send-off we need for a pretty long campaign season.” Backing off earlier declarations he’d win outright, he told MSNBC he expected to be “among the top group.”