Two days before the South Carolina Primary, Perry drops out of the race.
Does the Rick Perry ‘War on Religion’ Ad Go Too Far?
Gay rights activists, and even some religious leaders, are denouncing the spot. Even Perry campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio, who has previously worked with Log Cabin Republicans to promote gay rights among the GOP, called the ad “nuts” in an E-mail to its creator Nelson Warfield.
Republican presidential candidates Perry and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas speak during a debate at Oakland University in Auburn Hills, Mich. More in our photo gallery of 2012 GOP candidates.
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It sounds like an outsized Texas boast, but the numbers support Rick Perry when he claims that Texas has created more than one-third of the jobs in the United States since the economic recovery began in 2009. There’s an important caveat, however, that the Texas governor is unlikely to volunteer: Virtually all of those new jobs are in the government sector, not in private enterprise.
