John Ensign visits Iowa, causes talk about 2012
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WASHINGTON (CNN) - A well-publicized trip by a GOP senator to Iowa can only mean one thing: it’s time to add another name to the list of Republicans thinking about challenging President Obama in 2012.
Not that any presidential hopeful would admit to it yet.
Tonight, though, Nevada senator John Ensign will speak to an audience in Sioux City as part of a lecture series put on by the American Future Fund, a conservative group conventiently located in Des Moines, the capital of the state with perhaps the most influential role in the presidential nominating process. Not a bad place to make friends if you have ambitions beyond the U.S. Senate.
The group certainly didn’t hurt Ensign’s reputation among Iowa Republicans by hyping his visit with a radio ad calling him “a rising star in the conservative movement.” The location of Ensign’s speech is also illuminating: Sioux City is in the western part of the state, a Republican stronghold.
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