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Alan Keyes launches Texas swing January 22, 2008 On Tuesday, presidential candidate Alan Keyes began a six-week grassroots tour of Texas, originally his home state. Keyes is a 1968 graduate of Cole High School in San Antonio. Although Keyes will make excursions outside Texas as needed, and will continue his nationwide radio blitz to counter the media's virtual blackout of his campaign, he plans to camp out in Texas until its primary on March 4. As most pundits agree, if Super Tuesday fails to produce a "presumptive" Republican nominee, Texas becomes all the more important as the last big prize...

ST. GEORGE, Utah — Alan Keyes came in third in a presidential straw poll conducted Tuesday by the St. George unit of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies. Ron Paul led the balloting, followed by Mitt Romney. Filling out the field were John McCain, Fred Thompson, Duncan Hunter, Mike Huckabee, and Rudy Giuliani. The local conservative organization — which calls itself the Dixie Republican Forum, taking its name from the southern-most region of Utah — invited representatives of all the major GOP candidates to address a luncheon held in the St. George Holiday Inn. Speaking on behalf of Alan Keyes...

America is missing out on Alan Keyes. Many conservatives have told me they didn't even know Keyes was running for President...he is. Keyes has announced his candidacy since September 2007. The media and the Republican Party don't hesitate to leave him out of debates or the spotlight even though he has declared he's running and has not dropped out of the race. Iowa's caucuses were on Jan. 3rd. Iowa's Republican Party has yet to disclose the number of votes Alan Keyes received in Iowa. John Lund of the Des Moines, Iowa Republican Headquarters said, "We didn't have the electronic means...

As a Christian conservative, I have made the conscious decision to support Alan Keyes for president. Mr. Keyes closely mirrors what I'd like to see in our next president. I do hold in high esteem a candidate who will acknowledge, and has ALWAYS acknowledged, Almighty God as our nation's up-lifter and helper. Alan Keyes recognizes our nation and Founding Fathers' reliance on Almighty God that is evidenced in the Declaration of Independence and other historic documents. A statement on www.AlanKeyes.com reads: Foremost among the Declaration principles that Dr. Keyes believes should guide interpretation of the Constitution are these: 1. All...

Though he's polling in single-digits, Republican Alan Keyes says he's confident in his third try for the White House. At the Pizza Ranch restaurant, in Rock Valley, Iowa, Tuesday morning, Keyes told folks why he's running for president. Keyes thinks the country has lost it's "moral direction" and that God does have a place in politics and education. "What I have to do, is simply to make sure that really believe in the Godly principles in the country and the policies that will support strong borders, abolish the income tax, that will return choices in education to parents," Keyes said....

DES MOINES – Republican candidates Fred Thompson, Ron Paul and Alan Keyes showed up at the Federation for American Immigration Reform talk radio row in Des Moines to talk about immigration policy, and surrogates for Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee made appearances. But other Republicans – and all Democratic candidates – declined the opportunity, despite national television coverage from both Fox News and CNN.

Des Moines, IA — Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes has accepted an invitation to participate in the last scheduled — and in some ways most important — Republican debate before the Jan. 3 first-in-the-nation Iowa Caucus. The Des Moines Register's Republican Presidential Debate is scheduled for 1:00 pm on Dec. 12 at Iowa Public Television's Maytag Auditorium in Johnston, Iowa. At last report, all major Republican candidates except former NY mayor Rudy Giuliani have also accepted the invitation to participate. The Des Moines Register has a reputation for putting on fair and informative events. Their debates have become an Iowa...

Florida GOP excludes Alan Keyes from Orlando debate Uses non-existent polling data as requirement October 19, 2007 Des Moines, IA — In what he called "a major abuse of the electoral process," former Reagan administration diplomat and long-time national conservative activist Alan Keyes has been blocked by the Florida GOP from participating in Sunday's Fox News presidential debate in Orlando. The Florida party used a 1% or better showing in polls from three of six polling firms as their criterion for inclusion in the event, even though none of the selected polling firms included Keyes, the latest entry in the...

Former Reagan diplomat says he's unmoved by lack of moral courage displayed by others FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – After two previous runs for U.S. president, former Reagan diplomat Alan Keyes has announced he's again seeking the White House in the 2008 election, and he'll take part in Monday night's Republican presidential debate here. Keyes told syndicated radio host Janet Parshall he's "unmoved" by the lack of moral courage shown by the other candidates, among whom he sees no standout who articulates the "key kernel of truth that must, with courage, be presented to our people."

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – After two previous runs for U.S. president, former Reagan diplomat Alan Keyes has announced he's again seeking the White House in the 2008 election, and he'll take part in Monday night's Republican presidential debate here. Keyes told syndicated radio host Janet Parshall he's "unmoved" by the lack of moral courage shown by the other candidates, among whom he sees no standout who articulates the "key kernel of truth that must, with courage, be presented to our people." He added, "The one thing I've always been called to do is to raise the standard ... of our...