GOP candidates court Iowa conservatives
THOMAS BEAUMONT
REGISTER STAFF WRITER


June 30, 2007

Six Republican candidates for president appealed to a key group of Iowa GOP activists in the leadoff caucus state today, each trying to position himself as the right combination of fiscal and social conservative.

Participants in a Des Moines forum included several of the crowded field’s lesser-known candidates, some of whom took subtle jabs at former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the Iowa leader in recent polls of GOP caucusgoers.

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