Bachmann, Perry to meet in Iowa contest


Reuters/NY Times:

It was Michele Bachmann's big moment in the political spotlight and Rick Perry stomped all over it.

Despite her victory on Saturday in the Iowa straw poll, the first big test of the 2012 Republican presidential campaign, Bachmann had to share the national stage with Perry's public leap into the White House race.

It won't be the last time the congresswoman from Minnesota and the governor of Texas step on each other's toes.

Both aim for the backing of the same bloc of religious and social conservatives who dominate Iowa's kick-off nominating contest.

Both hope to become the chief Republican alternative to nominal front-runner Mitt Romney in the 2012 fight for the right to challenge President Barack Obama.

And both will be in Waterloo, Iowa, Bachmann's birthplace, on Sunday night to speak at a local fund-raising dinner in what looks like Act One of a beautiful rivalry.

"Perry is the looming presence in Michele Bachmann's future," said Dennis Goldford, a political scientist at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. "They appeal to the same people."

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I think Gov. Perry has a broader base of support. He does well with fiscal conservatives in the Tea Party and with republicans who want to encourage business development. I suspect they will play nice with each other. You will not see the bickering that marked Bachmann's rivalry with Tim Pawlenty.

Gov. Perry tends to be focused and on message. He ignores the distractions and what his opponent is trying to say and presses onward with his campaign.

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