DES MOINES, Iowa – With time running short, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum and other Republican presidential contenders argued Sunday that they could beat President Barack Obama as they worked to persuade undecided Iowa Republicans aching to win the White House to choose them over chief rival Mitt Romney.
“I’m the candidate that actually was able to win in states, as a conservative, in getting Democrats and independents to vote for us,” Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator who is surging in the race and is a favorite among cultural conservatives, said in an interview on CNN. “Mitt Romney has no track history of doing that.”
Paul, a libertarian-leaning Texas congressman who Romney has said is outside the GOP mainstream, countered the suggestion that he’s a fringe candidate. In an interview with ABC from his home state, where he was spending the weekend, Paul insisted: “I’m electable. I’ve been elected 12 times in Texas, when people get to know me.”
With Romney in a position of strength in Iowa, both Santorum and Paul went directly at the former Massachusetts governor’s chief argument — that he is the most electable Republican in a head-to-head matchup against Obama next fall. They hope they can sway the roughly
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