After Debate Gaffe, A Rattled Perry Focuses on Iowa

Gov. Rick Perry spent Thursday putting the best face he could on one of the worst TV debate moments in U.S. presidential campaign history. But his supporters and donors alike are deeply rattled, and they are treating first-test Iowa, with its caucus scheduled for Jan. 3, as if it is his last chance for political survival.

The governor has been in full damage-control mode since his infamous flub during a CNBC debate Wednesday night in which he could not remember the third of three federal agencies he has vowed to eliminate (he managed to say the Education and Commerce ...

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