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China News
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum has won Kansas caucuses of the US Republican Party on Saturday, giving him momentum ahead of next week's "Southern Super Tuesday" contests in Mississippi and Alabama. After more than 85 percent of votes were counted in Kansas caucuses,...
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Community News
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum overwhelmingly won the Kansas presidential caucuses Saturday as he tries to blunt Mitt Romney's momentum in the grinding campaign for the nomination to oppose President Barack Obama in the November election. Santorum, a former...
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Fox
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum was fighting Saturday to creep up on Mitt Romney's lead with a win in the Kansas caucuses -- but the complexities of the delegate process combined with a string of contests in U.S. territories could make that task nearly impossible. ...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum was fighting Saturday to creep up on Mitt Romney's lead with a win in the Kansas caucuses -- but the complexities of the delegate process combined with a string of contests in U.S. territories could make that task nearly impossible. ...
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Canada.com
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney's campaign told his Republican presidential rivals on Wednesday they could not catch him and pushed them to quit the race even though he failed to deliver a knockout blow in the biggest round of nominating contests. Romney won six of the...
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Miami Herald
| 1 year ago
The Republican presidential race headed South and West on Wednesday, into states where Mitt Romney is likely to face cultural resistance to his political appeal. The former Massachusetts governor emerged from Super Tuesday voting in 10 states with a...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
According to CNN's latest delegate count, Romney now has 404 delegates, compared with 165 for Rick Santorum, 106 for Newt Gingrich and 66 for Ron Paul. To claim the nomination, a candidate will need 1,144 delegates when Republicans meet for their...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney added about 200 delegates to his tally on Super Tuesday. Photograph: Win Mcnamee/Getty Images Mitt Romney 's campaign team has appealed for his rivals to quit the Republican presidential race, claiming that it is near impossible for them...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his wife Ann wave to supporters at his Super Tuesday campaign rally in Boston, Tuesday night, March 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia) Associated Press / March 7, 2012 E-...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
John Avlon is a CNN contributor and senior political columnist for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. He is co-editor of the book "Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns." (CNN) -- The message of Super Tuesday was clear: Mitt Romney still...
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Kuwait Times
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney edged out rival Rick Santorum in a nail-biter vote in Ohio as he tightened his grip on the 2012 Republican presidential nomination with a string of Super Tuesday wins. Santorum kept his hopes alive with a trio of victories in North Dakota,...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney reached out to conservatives suspicious of him and sought to assert himself as the inevitable Republican US presidential nominee on Wednesday, despite failing to deliver a knockout blow to his rivals in the biggest round of nominating...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
No coup de grace from Romney, but he made progress' The morning after Super Tuesday , the narrative is still in flux. The pundits often derided as "inside the bubble" typically settle on a common narrative...One one side of the argument are those who...
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Toronto Star
| 1 year ago
While you were sleeping, Super Tuesday ended in a flurry of late victories for the former Massachusetts senator, from pickups in Idaho to a cliffhanger in Ohio to the pre-dawn call that Alaska, though split in all directions, favoured Romney with a...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
Edward Morrissey is a senior editor and correspondent for the conservative commentary website HotAir.com. (CNN) -- Going into the Super Tuesday contests, the goals of each candidate were clear. Mitt Romney needed to beat Rick Santorum in Ohio and...
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Kansas City Star
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney said Wednesday he's "prepared to fight all the way" to become the Republican presidential nominee after a strong showing on the biggest night of the GOP presidential primary season. But Rick Santorum demonstrated enough political muscle...
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The Jakarta Post
| 1 year ago
World Mitt Romney won in six of 10 Super Tuesday states but managed only the narrowest victory over rival Rick Santorum in all-important Ohio, an outcome that leaves open the Republican contest for the nomination to challenge President Barack Obama.
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Welcome to our live blog coverage of the Super Tuesday aftermath. Here's Ryan Devereaux with a look at where things stand now that the smoke is clearing: Mitt Romney pulled off a narrow win in Ohio, but failed to strike a decisive blow in the 11...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 1 year ago
Associated Press Mitt Romney at his speech in Boston at the end of Super Tuesday. Photograph: Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters Mitt Romney boosted his prospects for becoming the Republican presidential nominee, winning six states including the coveted prize...
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Pop Crunch
| 1 year ago
The Presidential hopeful won his home state of Massachusetts as well as Ohio, Idaho, Vermont, Virginia and Alaska, while opposition, Rick Santorum took North Dakota, Oklahoma and Tennessee, according to unofficial results. The Super Tuesday contests...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
In a late-night nail-biter, Romney came away with an Ohio win that he hopes will help him overwrite the narrative that he is incapable of connecting with blue-collar voters. While it was another disappointing loss for Santorum in a state in which he...
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The independent
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney will be able to boast his way forward in the Republican nomination campaign today after scoring a respectable tally of states in last night's Super Tuesday' contests. But a squeaker in Ohio where he dodged a bullet told the alternative...
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The Sun UK
| 1 year ago
Romney has edged closer to being named the Republican candidate to take on Barack Obama. He and rivals Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul competed in ten states on Super Tuesday as they fought for the right to face the President in November's...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney edged out Rick Santorum to win the Ohio Republican primary by a percentage point in the most-watched state of the 10 that voted on Super Tuesday. Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, trailed Santorum, a former U.S. senator from...
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Boston.com
| 1 year ago
Associated Press / March 7, 2012 E-mail this article To: Invalid E-mail address Add a personal message: (80 character limit) Your E-mail: Invalid E-mail address Sending your article Your article has been sent. Mitt Romney is adding one more victory...
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Miami Herald
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney held a 1 percentage-point lead over Rick Santorum in Ohio's critical Republican primary race as of midnight EST Tuesday, as the two Republicans battled into the wee hours in a too-close-to-call struggle in the hardest-fought contest of...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney was declared the victor in the Alaska district conventions, The Associated Press projected, winning a state he did not visit during the campaign, though one of his sons visited on his behalf. Romney did write an open letter to Alaska...
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Asian Tribune
| 1 year ago
38 editor Super Tuesday did not whittle-down the Republican field of four. The ten-state marathon seemed to go off with no bang but a whimper. The trajectory of the Republican campaign hinged in large part to whether Mitt Romney would be able to...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
March 7, 2012 Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a Super Tuesday event at the Westin Copley Place March 6, 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum...
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Denver Post
| 1 year ago
Font Resize The Washington Post Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum each won Republican primaries in multiple states Tuesday night, with Romney taking the key battleground of Ohio, splitting the spoils of a Super Tuesday that highlighted stubborn divisions...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Travel & Delicacy Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-03-07 03:47 PM Mitt Romney won a tight race in Ohio, captured four other states and padded his delegate lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination but was forced...
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Chandler Republic
| 1 year ago
On the busiest night of the campaign, Romney scored a home-state win in Massachusetts to go with primary victories in Vermont and in Virginia -- where neither Santorum nor Newt Gingrich was on the ballot...Ohio was the big win, though, and the...
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Kansas City Star
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum struggled to an uneasy stalemate on Super Tuesday, leaving the outcome of the grinding GOP race unresolved despite Romney's late-night triumph in the critical battleground state of Ohio.
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images The Republican presidential race looks set to drag on to the summer after Mitt Romney won his crucial Super Tuesday showdown with Rick Santorum in Ohio but failed to make the decisive break from the pack he had hoped...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles Romney won five of the 10 state contests on Tuesday but his margin of victory was uncomfortably slim in Ohio, the night's biggest prize. Ohio is a politically divided state sure to be hotly contested in the November 6 election between the...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
Fresh with a new Secret Service detail today, he plans to forge ahead with the belief he will fare better in upcoming contests in Mississippi and Alabama...Most likely in the one-on-one showdown between Romney and Santorum that the former...
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Contra Costa Times
| 1 year ago
Far from bringing new clarity to the race as some in the party had hoped, Tuesday's results gave every candidate cause to keep driving forward -- including Newt Gingrich, who won a definitive victory in Georgia. The results also dashed Romney's hope...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum split seven states and were locked in a tight race for the most prestigious prize, Ohio, on Super Tuesday, the busiest day in the turbulent campaign to select a Republican rival to President Barack Obama .
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Reporting from Columbus, Ohio Mitt Romney chalked up Super Tuesday wins in Virginia, Vermont and Massachusetts, seeking to fasten his grip on the GOP nomination by dominating the single biggest day of balloting in the hard-fought primary campaign.
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Miami Herald
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney's lackluster showing in Super Tuesday's primaries nonetheless moves him closer to the Republican presidential nomination. But a string of events and voter data underscore his challenge in winning independent voters turned off by the long,...
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Toronto Star
| 1 year ago
Romney has taken three states while his closest rival, Rick Santorum, has snagged two on so-called Super Tuesday , the biggest single day in the Republican presidential race and one the front-runner was hoping could finally give his campaign an...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 1 year ago
Wednesday Mar 7, 2012 Mitt Romney scored two early victories as he vied for a commanding lead in the US Republican presidential race on Super Tuesday, the busiest day of the chaotic campaign to choose a rival for President Barack Obama. Romney won in...
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SF Gate
| 1 year ago
Gerald Herbert / AP Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney talks to reporters on his campaign plane before taking off for Boston, Tuesday, March 6, 2012, in Columbus, Ohio. AP) -- Mitt Romney rolled to primary...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
North Dakota, Idaho and Alaska were also holding caucuses, with results expected later tonight or into the early hours of tomorrow. The pivotal day for the Republican presidential nomination saw GOP rivals Romney, Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
06 Mitt Romney notched early wins as he fought to establish his dominance in the race for the Republican US presidential nomination but Ohio, the biggest prize of the evening, was too close to call. Romney won as expected in Massachusetts, Virginia...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
The two races, called by The Associated Press, were the first of 10 Super Tuesday tilts to be determined tonight, including the Massachusetts primary. The host of primaries, the latest high-stakes round in the grueling, sometimes nasty, battle for...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
Voters in 10 states , stretching from Vermont to Alaska, will be participating in GOP presidential primaries and caucuses on Tuesday. Romney entered the day with considerable momentum, having won the last five contests in a row. Former Pennsylvania...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
that's the top goal of Republican voters in seven states where exit polling data on Tuesday's presidential primaries shows the economy is the top issue across every state. The seven states voting in primaries Tuesday represent a wide range of...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Reporting from Washington It's the biggest day of the primary season so far: Four Republican presidential candidates. Ten states. 437 delegates (out of 2,286 overall). And a potential turning point in the 2012 election. Here are five key...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Super Tuesday Facts Over a third of the 1,144 delegates needed to win the Republican nomination are up for grabs on Tuesday, which is more than all the previous primaries and caucuses combined. Frontrunner Mitt Romney, who has won the last five state,...
