Santorum's wins shake up 2012 GOP presidential race
WASHINGTON -- Rick Santorum seized an important opportunity Tuesday to become the chief conservative alternative to Mitt Romney, as he won Republican presidential contests in Missouri and Minnesota and appeared headed for a strong showing in Colorado.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, was expected to remain the front-runner for the GOP nomination nevertheless, thanks to his huge advantages in campaign cash and organization going forward, and his impressive earlier wins in New Hampshire, Florida and Nevada.
Still, the solid Santorum vote provided fresh evidence that "Romney's is a troubled candidacy," said Lawrence Jacobs, a professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. "The outcome of the race is far from certain."
The strong showing by Santorum made it clear that Romney isn't yet his party's consensus nominee. It signaled that the GOP nomination campaign may remain a bitter struggle for months, possibly leading to a divided August convention and a weakened candidate against President Barack Obama in the fall.
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Sounds like a Brussel sprout overdose. 
The trenches of our agenda need that legislative support. 
Which, of course, they are.
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*EGREGIOUS*
over and over, endlessly, where virtually every word & gesture is carefully nuanced to insure
the most extravagant spending orgy in history via these so-called super-PACs .. and guess
where 95% of that money is getting spent? ... Gee?!! surprise surprise, it's for ADs in the very
self-same M$M that is tansparently choreographing the whole extravaganza to squeeze every
dime possible out of our supposedly "democratic" elections.
Now it's Newt 
... No now it's Mitt 
... No no, now it's Santorum. 
Anything and everything to just keep people watching, imagining that they are seeing "democracy in
action" .. what a fucking sad joke this whole carnival has become.
that I helped a little with this in the MO non binding primary. "Just feelin' so Republican for a few moments on Tuesday."
How in the heck can a commoner keep track of all this stuff, it's sort of like the movie 'It's a Mad World'.
We have to watch it on rewind to see all the sub-plots.
It's really lot of fun watching 
As a side note - As a Minnesotan, I've delighted in the brutal in fighting push polls etc that I've been receiving via the phone in the lead up to the caucus. One call paid for by Romney was a not a recording - but a live breathless young man reading from a card all of the horrors of Rick Santorum. It was basically a live ro-bo call since there was absolutely no engagement with the caller since he just launched into his spiel and hung up. I found it off putting that a campaign would pay someone to call my home and not even say hello or goodbye. People roll their eyes when they receive robo calls, but to have a live person invade your home, launch into their spiel and hang up would be a huge turn off for many.
I was surprised that this was a Romney attack call against Santorum. I guess Romney had numbers that indicated Santorum was his biggest competition in Minnesota. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
What he ISN'T is his party's VOTER'S consensus nominee.
With Gingrich failing to make the ballot in Missouri, R-money's 25% is downright damning. It suggests that with Gingrich on the ballet, he might have finished third anyway!
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He converted from Southern Baptism circa 2009, inspired by his wife Calistia with whom he had a six-year affair....
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