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Romney clinches support from die-hard conservatives in US confab
Feb 11, 2012, 21:31 GMT
Washington - Mitt Romney Saturday clinched a surprising majority of votes in an informal 'straw' poll of core conservative activists gathered in Washington at an annual meeting.
Romney gleaned a 38-per-cent lead over Rick Santorum, who took 31 per cent, indicating that in his speech Friday, he managed to convince sceptical conservatives that he was conservative enough to represent the Republican Party in November's presidential elections.
The two other rivals for the party's presidential nomination - Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul - took respectively 15 and 12 per cent of the straw poll at the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) meeting. Those two candidates charge that Romney is too liberal for the party.
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