AMES, Iowa – The preseason is over for the Republican presidential field. When the top eight declared candidates take the stage at the Stephens Auditorium at Iowa State University at 9 p.m. Eastern tonight, they will be playing for keeps.
With voters anxious about the future of the nation, President Obama already out on the campaign trail (including a Michigan factory stop and another big-buck New York fundraiser today) trying to reverse his lengthy slide in the polls and markets continuing to whipsaw on dire economic news, Republican
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Republicans here in Iowa and around the country are optimistic about their party’s chances in 2012, but they’re also ready to get on with the fight. After months of eyeing the prospects, voters are ready to start making their choices. It’s one thing to indulge a spring fling with a long-shot candidate, but quite another to hold onto that crush into the fall.
Tonight’s debate, sponsored by FOX News, The Washington Examiner and the Iowa Republican Party, comes at a time of great opportunity and potential peril for the GOP.
If they find a nominee who can unite their party and defeat Obama in 15 months, Republicans will have completed a remarkable political rehabilitation that began with the Tax Day Tea Parties of 2009. If Obama is re-elected and delivers on his promises of enforcing his federal health care law, new financial regulations and global warming rules, it’s back to the wilderness for American conservatives.
But beyond the big stakes for the party and the nation tonight are seven men and one woman who come to the stage with their own baggage, opportunities and needs for this debate.
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