2012 Iowa Caucus

Michele Bachmann is the Congresswomen from Minnesota's 6th district since 2007.  She served in the state senate from 2001 to 2007 and was the the first Republican woman to be elected to congress in Minnesota. Bachmann is the founder of the House's Tea Party Caucus and gave the Tea Party's official response to the State of the Union. Click for Michele Bachmann News and Analysis

Ron Paul is currently a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 14th district.  He was a member of the House from 1979-1985 and 1976-1977. He was the Libertarian Party nominee for president in 1988.  He finished with 432,179 votes. In 2008, as a Republican, he finished  with 10%  of the vote in the Iowa Caucus. Click Ron Paul News and Analysis

Rick Santorum was United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 18th district from 1991 to 1995. Click for Rick Santorum News and Analysis

Rick Perry has been Governor of Texas since 2000. He was a member of the House of Representatives of Texas from District 64 from 1985–1991. Rick Perry has written two books: On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts are Worth Fighting For and Fed Up! Our Fight to Save America from Washington. Click for Rick Perry News and Analysis

Newt Gingrich was a member of the Congress for Georgia's 6th district (1979-1999).

He was the Speaker of House from 1995 to 1999.  He he was the leader of the "Conservative Revolution"  and the  "Contract with America".

Author of 25 books including  "Real Change: The Fight for America's Future".

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Mitt Romney was Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007.

Romney made an unsuccessful Senate run in 1994 when he lost to Ted Kennedy. He was the CEO of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and turned a $379 million dollar debt into a $100 million profit.

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Jon Huntsman served in the administrations of four presidents, most recently as US Ambassodor to China.

He was elected Governor of Utah in 2004 and won re-election in 2008. He implemented the largest tax cut in the state's history.

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Gary Johnson is the former Governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003.

Johnson started Big J Enterprises by himself and sold at after it became one of New Mexico's leading construction companies.

He has a low-tax, Libertarian point of view.

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