GOP Candidates Hit Iowa Before Election

Potential Republican presidential candidates for 2012 are making one more journey through Iowa prior to next Tuesday’s elections. They seek both to boost GOP candidates and help launch their own presidential bids in the nation’s first primary state, The Hill reports. And some are visiting other early primary states as well.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has visits scheduled this week on behalf of Republican candidates in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour also are headed to Iowa. Barbour will visit New Hampshire too.