profiles

=Current candidates for the 2012 presidential election include:= = = = = = = __ Democratic Candidate __ Democratic Proflie

=Barack Obama= = =

Former Positions:

Law professor at the University of Chicago for a few years. He also was a civil rights lawyer and a community organizer. Lastly, he was a U.S. Senotor for the State of Illinois.

Platform: Recent Wins: Current President of The United States of America Set-backs: Other than nagging criticism no major setbacks for the up and coming election
 * Energy, Foreign Policy, Economic Policy, Education, Drug War, Personal Freedom**

REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES = = =__**REPUBLICAN PROFILES**__= = = =Mitt Romney=

Background: Son of former Michigan Gov. George W. Romney. Graduated from Brigham Young in 1971, then earned a law degree and an MBA from Harvard. Went into management consulting with Bain & Company, where he eventually became CEO. In 1984, he founded private equity firm Bain Capital that now manages roughly $65 billion in assets. In 1994, ran as the GOP nominee for a Massachusetts Senate seat but lost to Democrat Ted Kennedy. Served as President of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. Elected governor of Massachusetts as a Republican in 2002, where he signed a health care overhaul mandating that every individual carry health insurance or pay a fine. Ran for the GOP’s 2008 presidential nomination, but lost to Sen. John McCain. Platform:
 * Energy, Foreign Policy, Economic Policy, Education, Drug War, Personal Freedom**

Recent Wins: **Territories:** [|American Samoa], [|Guam] , [|Northern Mariana Islands] , [|Puerto Rico] || Set-backs: Consistency, normal human interaction, [|pet care].
 * Alaska, [|Arizona] , [|Florida] , [|Hawaii] , [|Idaho] , [|Illinois] , [|Maine] , [|Massachusetts] , [|Michigan] , [|Nevada] , [|New Hampshire] , [|Ohio] , [|Vermont] , [|Virginia] , [|Washington] , [|Wyoming]

=Rick Santorum=

Background: Represented Pennsylvania's 18th district from 1991 to 1995, then served in the Senate from 1995 to 2007. After losing his last election by 18 percentage points, he joined the law firm Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC. Platform: Recent Wins:
 * Energy, Foreign Policy, Economic Policy, Education, Drug War, Personal Freedom**

Set-backs: gays, //Griswold//, Google searches
 * [|Alabama], [|Colorado] , [|Iowa] , [|Kansas] , [|Louisiana] , [|Minnesota] , [|Mississippi] , [|Missouri] , [|North Dakota] , [|Oklahoma] , [|Tennessee] ||

=Ron Paul=

Background: Ron Paul is the most important freedom-oriented politician at the national level of the last 30 years. After a career as a U.S. Air Force doctor and private-practice obstetrician, Paul in 1976 won a Texas congressional seat in a special election. Since that time he has won and lost a series of congressional elections, but he’s won more than he’s lost and has spent a total more than 20 years in the House of Representatives. In between congressional sits, Paul ran for president on the Libertarian Party ticket in 1988, placing behind Republican George Herbert Walker Bush and Democrat Michael Dukakis. In 1979 Paul created the Foundation for Rational Economic Education. He went on to spearhead a succession of newsletters whose off-color commentary, under Paul’s own byline, has been used against Paul in recent years. Paul will leave office at the end of the current term, having chosen to focus his campaign energies on this presidential run rather than a defense of his redistricted House seat. Nevertheless, his ability to generate broad and generous support, his rumpled charisma, his plain speaking to pettifogging Federal Reserve Bank and Treasury Department officials, his proud record of voting no on legislation he considers unconstitutional, his decency and his intellectual curiosity make Ron Paul the most influential living figure in small-l libertarianism. Platform: Recent Wins: N/A Set-backs: Centrists, welfare/warfare staters, cosmotarians, establishment media.
 * Energy, Foreign Policy, Economic Policy, Education, Drug War, Personal Freedom**

=Newt Gingrich=

Background: Represented Georgia’s 6th Congressional District from 1979 to 1999. Served as minority whip in 1989, //Time//'s "Man of the Year" in 1995, and speaker of the House from 1995 to 1999. Engineered the Contract With America and the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. After Republicans lost five seats in the 1998 midterm elections, Gingrich resigned his speakership and his seat, telling several colleagues during a conference call, "I'm willing to lead, but I'm not willing to preside over people who are cannibals." Platform: Recent Wins: Set-backs: fidelity, the 24-hour media cycle, fund raising, shiny things
 * Energy, Foreign Policy, Economic Policy, Education, Drug War, Personal Freedom**
 * [|Georgia], [|South Carolina] ||