MinnPost - Minnesota delegation gets red-meat talking points, and a taste of this fall's campaign

Then Fiorina turned to a subject that's hasn't been embraced by many Republicans in the past: global warming.

"Eight years ago John McCain believed in policies [regarding] climate change," she said. For those disbelievers in the crowd, she laid out the business and economic sense of going green, adding, if in fact there's no such thing, "what's the harm" in doing something anyway?

The issue was one of McCain's top "things you don't want to hear" that he was telling voters in Iowa, although McCain emphasized the issue less after gas prices increased.

On the issue of climate change, Senjem said afterward: "Society recognizes that right or wrong, it's a major issue and we have to compete for votes. Call it what you will but we have to get those independent voters."