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However, 52-year-old Santorum also enters the campaign with hurdles. He lost to Democrat Bob Casey in 2006 and has been out of elective office since 2007. He lacks the robust fundraising or personal wealth of his likely rivals. Santorum was already eyeing the White House when he lost his 2006 race. His opposition to abortion, gay marriage and embryonic stem cell research
-- plus his youthful looks and tireless energy -- made him a poster child for conservatives. But his sometimes abrasive style alienated voters in Democratic-leaning Pennsylvania, and they replaced him with an anti-abortion Democrat, Casey. Santorum, a lawyer by training, wed wife Karen in 1990, the year he was elected to the U.S. House. He won his first term in the Senate in 1994. He and his wife have six children. ___ Online:
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