They are taking a straw-poll of voter sentiment among the couple of thousand people expected today and tomorrow at the "Values Voter Summit'' in Washington, but voting isn't limited to people in the ballroom. And the campaign of Mitt Romney, who has a lot at stake here, has figured that out.
Romney, who will address the conference this evening, is a Mormon. He also is a relative latecomer to the "pro-life'' cause of preventing abortion.
With one in four of the evangelical Protestants who comprise a significant share of the Republican vote reluctant to vote for a Mormon -- as surveys show -- and with Romney having to convince supporters that his anti-abortion convictions today are strong and true, the former governor of Massachusetts has some selling to do here. But with the party's front-runner, Rudy Giuliani, a supporter of abortion-rights, Romney and other Republicans appearing here also have a certain momentum on their sides heading into that straw-poll on Saturday.
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