Straight From the Elephants Mouth

As we all know, most of what we end up hearing from the candidates is them attacking each other. The Charleston City Paper wanted to give their South Carolina voters a little more about the candidates actual politics. The paper asked each candidate to write a short letter explaining what they will do to directly appeal to the South Carolina Voters.
John Huntsman wrote to them about wanting to break up too-big-to-fail banks and making the derivatives market more transparent to prevent a repeat of the Great Recession,  lowering the income and corporate tax rates, and establishing congressional term limits. Obviously since then, Huntsman has dropped out of the race, but the South Carolina voters seemed pretty pleased with what he proposed.
Rick Perry told the South Carolina voters he wanted to make Washington inconsequential by eliminating earmarks and making congress a part-time job. Rick Perry tells congress. Get a Job! Perry has also dropped out since his statement.
In Rick Santorums letter he told the voters that plans to tell Iran to open its nuclear weapon facilities for inspection, under the threat of bombing. He also will reject climate change science. Many people commented on this article, saying they agree that Global Warming is a scam, and they are happy someone wants to put an end to it.
If Newt Gingrich gets elected he plans to cut the cost of Medicare and Medicaid, defund the National Labor Relations Board. He also plans to challenge Obama to a series of Lincoln-style debates. The South Carolina voters had a lot of negative criticisms about Gingrich's plans.
Ron Paul told the South Carolina voters that he plans to adopt a non-interventionist foreign policy. He would like to make massive cuts in the federal government, including the elimination of the department of education. He also plans to eliminate income, capital gains, and death taxes. There was a mixed review of Paul's plans by the voters.
Mitt Romney, the current front runner in the race said his plans consist of creating a " Reagan economic zone" for free international trade He wants to designate China a currency manipulator and deregulate fracking. The South Carolina voters seemed to like Romney's plan.
There was a poll at the bottom of the article, and currently Ron Paul is in the lead with 69% of the votes.


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