WaPo: Pawlenty releases video on his faith as he seeks Iowa evangelical vote

Pawlenty releases video on his faith as he seeks Iowa evangelical vote
By Amy Gardner
Published: July 13

Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty made a unabashed pitch to Iowa’s evangelical vote Wednesday with the release of a video featuring the presidential candidate and his wife, Mary, talking unguardedly about their religious faith.

The video attests to his opposition to abortion and his view that marriage should be only between a man and a woman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJBgQnECe3E&feature=player_embedded

Pawlenty’s campaign also sent out a letter of support to conservative Iowans signed by Sarah Huckabee, the daughter of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and the newest addition to Pawlenty’s field staff in Iowa. Sarah Huckabee, who helped her father win the Iowa caucuses in 2008 largely with strong support within the evangelical community, told voters to support Pawlenty because he “has the same conservative convictions and executive experience I admire in my dad.”

The moves reveal the urgency for Pawlenty to do well among Iowa’s evangelical voters at a time when his standing is not improving in polls. Pawlenty is competing for those votes with a fellow Minnesotan, Rep. Michele Bachmann, who is hugely popular among Christian conservatives and whose own standing in recent polls has shot to the top of the field in Iowa since she entered the presidential race a few weeks ago.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pawlenty-releases-video-on-his-faith-as-he-seeks-iowa-evangelical-vote/2011/07/13/gIQAsgDxCI_story.html