Rick Perry, Herman Cain try to do campaign damage control

Source: Washington Post

Texas Gov. Rick Perry tried to salvage his presidential campaign on Tuesday with an unconventional plan to “uproot, tear down and rebuild Washington,” while businessman Herman Cain tried to project a new command of foreign policy one day after giving a response to a question about Libya that suggested he had no grasp of the issues involved.

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney — the establishment front-runner and the man they are chasing in the Republican nomination contest — spent the day in South Carolina, where he continued to draw a contrast not with his GOP rivals but with President Obama.

With just seven weeks before the Jan. 3 caucuses in Iowa, which will begin the nominating contest, the race appears to have tightened. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.), buoyed by a string of solid debate performances, has vaulted to the top tier. In Iowa, he is in a four-way statistical tie for the lead with Cain, Romney and Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.), according to a Bloomberg News survey released early Tuesday.

Despite Perry’s ambitious television advertising campaign in Iowa, a state his campaign says he must win, the poll put him in fifth place, with 7 percent support. So with his candidacy on the line, Perry traveled to Iowa to announce a far-reaching government reform agenda that seemed as unachievable as it was bold.

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