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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Santorum braces to move beyond Iowa

Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks to the media at a campaign stop at Valley High School, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012, in West Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum shakes hands during a meet and greet campaign stop at Pizza Ranch, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, in Altoona, Iowa. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum kisses his wife, Karen, after speaking during a meet and greet campaign stop at Pizza Ranch, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, in Altoona, Iowa. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ? Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told young voters, many set to cast their first votes Tuesday night, that they can ease the burden they will bear from the nation's debt by helping him to a strong finish in Iowa's caucuses.

"This is an important moment for our country," said Santorum, who, according to recent polls, had surged into third place behind Mitt Romney and Ron Paul in the first contest of the race to win the GOP presidential nomination.

He had joined other candidates at a Rock the Vote event in suburban Des Moines, one of a series of gatherings designed to spur high school students to get involved in the presidential campaign.

The event was sponsored in part by Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz, who has endorsed Santorum and calls him the most consistent conservative in the field ? a point that Santorum hammers home on the campaign trail.

Young people could play an important role in Tuesday's caucuses. Those who will turn 18 by Election Day are eligible to participate. Asked how many planned to do so, about half the 800 students in the gymnasium raised their hands. Santorum urged them all to think long-term about the debt that is mounting under President Barack Obama.

"It will crush your pocketbook in the future," Santorum said. "Hold the candidates accountable to the intractable problem of exploding government."

Santorum spoke flanked by his wife and six of their seven children.

Heading into the caucuses, Santorum, now a top-tier contender, sounded increasingly confident and vowed to stay in the race beyond the first votes in the state-by-state process of choosing a Republican to challenge Obama next fall. Until several days ago, the former Pennsylvania senator had been trailing at the back of the GOP pack.

"I feel very good about where I am," he said. "We're going up. I feel very good about New Hampshire. They like this kind of politics, too." Santorum has devoted considerable time to campaigning in Iowa, going from door to door and from handshake to handshake as he has visited cities and towns large and small in each of the state's 99 counties.

"We're going to do very well tonight," Santorum predicted on ABC's "Good Morning America."

"Ten days ago we were in last place in the polls and people asked me why I didn't get out," he said. Santorum said voters in Iowa are "looking for the candidate they can trust, and that's why we're moving up in the polls."

He acknowledged fundraising problems but said that a strong showing in Iowa should help significantly on that front. So far, Santorum said, "I'd say we've done this on shoestrings, but that would be insulting shoestrings."

Santorum said he's ready to move on aggressively to New Hampshire, South Carolina and other early voting states, saying "the biggest issue in this campaign is going to be the size and scale of government and the biggest signature issue is health care."

Associated Press

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Parse.ly Will Launch Its Pageview-Generating Machine Called ?Dash? This Month

Parse.ly, the stealthy data-driven predictive content optimization platform for publishers, is preparing to launch its first product called Dash at the end of the month, we've learned. The startup first emerged from DreamIt Ventures in 2009, with $20K of seed funding in tow. It raised an A round from ff Venture Capital and Blumberg Capital?in December 2010 totaling $1.8 million. Dash aims to help publishers increase pageviews by providing insight into what topics are trending and what topics they should write more about or less about, among other things. But most importantly, its?predictive analysis engine is able to recommend what topics publishers should cover right?now to be on top of future trends. Simply put, it's a pageview-generating machine.

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Huntsman: Iowa winnows, NH proves electability

Republican presidential candidate, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman listens as his wife speaks during a town hall meeting in Thornton, N.H., Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)

Republican presidential candidate, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman speaks at a town hall meeting in Thornton, N.H., Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)

DERRY, N.H. (AP) ? Iowa may help winnow the field, but it will be New Hampshire that sends a clear message about which Republican presidential hopeful is the most electable, Jon Huntsman said Sunday.

The former Utah governor is skipping Tuesday's Iowa caucuses and has been focused only on New Hampshire, which holds the first primary Jan. 10. He is spending 14 days straight campaigning in the state, including three town hall meetings Sunday.

After drawing about 150 people to his first stop, Huntsman told reporters Iowa plays an important role in narrowing the field, and said Rick Santorum's recent rise there shows that traditional grassroots campaigning is still important.

But it will be New Hampshire that "will set the standard going forward," he said.

"Electability isn't going to come out of Iowa, electability is going to come out of New Hampshire," Huntsman said later in Franklin.

Huntsman says the results of the Iowa caucuses will be forgotten within days, but that could be wishful thinking on his part ? especially if former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney wins in Iowa and then heads to New Hampshire, where he has long been the front-runner.

Huntsman recently has begun making modest progress in New Hampshire after months spent near the bottom of polls, but he still lags far behind Romney.

In person, Huntsman has been calling the primary a two-man race between him and Romney, telling voters they have a choice between a "status quo" candidate and one who will restore the economy and the nation's trust in government. But his campaign clearly feels threatened as well by Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who has also been ahead of Huntsman in polls.

The Huntsman campaign on Sunday posted its second online ad attacking Paul, using music and graphics similar to "The Twilight Zone" and footage of what it calls Paul's history of making incendiary statements and promoting outlandish conspiracy theories.

Asked about the ad, Huntsman said it's only natural to compare and contrast himself with the other leading candidates.

"I think that's what people expect, that's how people can better understand you and your message," he said.

He acknowledged Paul's sizable base of support but said the Texas congressman would not be able to bring together enough voters to win a general election.

"I don't believe that he can put together enough mainstream support to be successful, and that is increasingly the question that is being asked," Huntsman said.

Sunday night, Huntsman sent an email to potential supporters promising to match any campaign donations from his own personal wealth.

In Franklin, Huntsman heard from one skeptical voter who told him she was pleasantly surprised by what she heard from him Sunday, but she questioned whether he could win.

"Do you have the organization (and) the infrastructure?" she asked, noting that he was unable to qualify to get on Virginia's ballot. "I wonder if you have staying power and fire in your belly."

Huntsman pointed to the more than 140 public events he's held in New Hampshire and said the momentum he leaves New Hampshire with will carry him to later success. Though he insists New Hampshire voters will pay little heed to the Iowa results, he expects voters in South Carolina and other states to pay attention to New Hampshire.

"You are small in number but big in the punch you pack politically," he said.

The skeptical woman, who declined to give her name, said later that she wasn't swayed.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/89ae8247abe8493fae24405546e9a1aa/Article_2012-01-01-Huntsman/id-ecf1d4aaac0e4ece944e7fd0a36dbf74

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Leverson's Eagle Scout project clears Tapley Park's tornado damage

Volunteers

Six volunteers worked on the Tapley Park project late Thursday morning. L to r: Jerry Leverson, Joey Najjar, Michael Uhde, Adarius Pete, Mike Pete and Adam Leverson.

Adam Leverson

Adam Leverson chose cleanup of Tapley Park as his Eagle Scout project.

Tapley clean-up

Joey Najjar (left) and Adarius Pete help each other with branches.

A year and a half after the EF4 tornado rolled through Wadena, the trail side of Tapley Park is being cleaned up.

Adam Leverson, a WDC sophomore, chose to lead the project along Thursday and Friday, Dec. 29-30, working toward his Eagle Scout rank.

His dad and several other volunteers pitched in.

?Ron Bucholz mentioned it to me and so I decided it would be a good project,? Leverson said.

Bucholz, who is the public works director, showed him around the affected area on the south side of Tapley Park which was still run down after the June 17, 2010 tornado.

Leverson said they are primarily cleaning up fallen trees and tangled brush and planned to use a wood chipper for the bigger trees.

Unusually warm and dry weather has helped the project, along with other recovery projects in the area.

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Source: http://www.wadenapj.com/event/article/id/25425/

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