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The Journal-World
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum overwhelmingly won the Kansas Republican presidential caucuses on Saturday, bolstering his claim that front-runner Mitt Romney hasn't locked up the GOP nomination. Santorum appeared on track to pick up all of the state's 40 delegates,...
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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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Guardian Unlimited
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum's easy win in Kansas has dispelled any Republican hopes of an early conclusion to the race. Photograph: Eric Gay/AP Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum easily won the Kansas caucuses to consolidate his status as the main...
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Gawker
| 1 year ago
Romney and Gingrich Let Santorum Win Kansas It's Rick Santorum's turn to win a caucus, and he is close to doing that in Kansas. Granted, this process of selecting a Republican presidential candidate is not a turn-based system, but in this case,...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
With 61 percent of precincts reporting, Santorum was taking 53 percent in this rural Midwestern state that would appear to be tailor-made for him. The Pennsylvania senator has made his conservative views on social issues a focal point in his bid to...
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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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BBC
| 1 year ago
The US Republican primaries race has reached Kansas where Rick Santorum is expecting to do well on the strength of his conservative credentials. Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney, former governor of the liberal eastern state of Massachusetts, has...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
The candidate, who has staked the future of his campaign on winning in Mississippi and Alabama next week, is seeing his focus pay off. An American Research Group poll of 600 likely Republican primary voters in Mississippi has Gingrich leading with 35...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
March 08 There's no doubt that Rick Santorum would make gains if Newt Gingrich dropped out, but would it be enough? March 07 It was a long and bumpy night for the candidates that ended in an underwhelming but basically successful outcome for Mitt...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum expressed hope on Thursday that he might be able to knock Newt Gingrich his chief rival for second place in the Republican primary out of the race within a week. What it would take, Santorum told reporters before a speech here, would be...
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The Birmingham News
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum went on the attack this afternoon against President Barack Obama and rival Mitt Romney. "We must make this a race about President Obama's deplorable record, about a president on the verge of...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum and his wife Karen Santorum greet their supporters and sign autographs as they depart the Super Tuesday Election Night Party in the gymnasium of the Steubenville High School in Steubenville, Ohio on March...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum , speaking Thursday in Huntsville, Ala., said President Obama does not believe in America's founding principles. Obama "takes more and more money from you, takes more and more freedom from you, and thinks...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
But, at least in the 13th District, it won't be because he didn't try. Former senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.). (Julie Denesha/Getty Images) On Jan. 6, the state filing deadline, a Santorum volunteer had brought to the board of elections an envelope...
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KSAZ
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum's supporters, one day after clamoring for rival Newt Gingrich to drop out of the Republican presidential race, are heading to the Deep South to air a new ad arguing that neither of his rivals can win in the fall general election. "How...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Newt Gingrich could be facing a win-or-walk-away situation in the Deep South on Tuesday -- and the early numbers are not promising for the trailing presidential candidate, with two new polls showing him behind in Alabama . The new polls each showed...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney's victories across the country Tuesday, in Alaska, Mormon-influenced Idaho, predictable Massachusetts, keystone Ohio, Vermont and Virginia, and in Washington state's caucuses Saturday, gave him seven of the 11 states in play. Rick...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Select a date range Create a custom date range Reporting from Jackson, Miss. Rick Santorum called on Mississippi Republicans on Wednesday to drive Newt Gingrich out of the presidential race next week by denying him one of the Deep South primary...
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Star Tribune
| 1 year ago
The GOP electorate is heavily evangelical and staunchly conservative on social issues. Tuesday -- Alabama, Mississippi: This could be Newt Gingrich's last stand...March 17 -- Missouri: Rick Santorum won a non-binding vote; now voters will decide how...
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The Birmingham News
| 1 year ago
Newt Gingrich wrapped up a day of campaign stops in suddenly politically important Alabama today, telling a crowd at the Harbert Center that "I am staying in this race." The race, of course is the Republican fight for that party's presidential...
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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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The independent
| 1 year ago
News in pictures On Facebook From the blogs Newt Gingrich likes to choose his words for laughs and surely that's why he muddled his rabbits with his hares on Tuesday night as he delivered his "victory" speech after taking his home state of Georgia. "...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum is trying to turn the tables on the Romney camp's suggestion that it would take an act of God for Santorum to come out ahead in the GOP delegate race, telling reporters here at his first campaign event since Super Tuesday that Mitt...
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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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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney apparently pulled off a narrow victory over Rick Santorum in Ohio. But Mr. Santorum scored victories elsewhere, competing with Mr. Romney's achievement of collecting the most delegates. With what appeared to be only a slim victory in Ohio,...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Rick Santorum's supporters, the morning after their candidate hung tough and pulled out three Super Tuesday victories, began to apply serious pressure to Newt Gingrich to bow out of the presidential race -- arguing the former speaker is standing in...
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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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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Then remember it was Herman Cain the first time, and then for a brief moment it was Donald Trump almost...Then it was Herman Cain the second time, and now it's Santorum...Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich talking to supporters following his Georgia...
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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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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Ohio What's ahead for the Republican presidential race post-Super Tuesday ?...There's a good case to be made that more than Mitt Romney's six wins yesterday or Rick Santorum's three, it's Newt Gingrich's sole victory in his home state of Georgia that...
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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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Ledger-Enquirer
| 1 year ago
tool goes here Newt Gingrich won Muscogee County with 40 percent of the vote, election results show. Gingrich, who represented Georgia in Congress and served as Speaker of the House, took 3,866 votes in Muscogee County.
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Win Mcnamee/Getty Images Winning isn't the main thing, goes the saying attributed to the American football coach Vince Lombardi: it's the only thing. Winning in Ohio and five other Super Tuesday state primaries last night keeps Mitt Romney at the...
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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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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 1 year ago
Newt Gingrich kept his candidacy alive by winning his home state of Georgia. (AP)
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney won the Virginia Republican presidential primary Tuesday, projections indicated, as he sought to take a commanding lead in the GOP race. With 99 percent of precincts reporting, the former Massachusetts governor won 59 percent of the vote,...
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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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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Topics in their speeches included their deep appreciation to supporters, their deep disdain for President Obama's policies, the economy, jobs, American values, America's promise, liberty, and big ideas (Gingrich owned this phrase).
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The Dish Rag
| 1 year ago
The 2012 Republican primary picture doesn't look to be clearing up much after Super Tuesday, the night in which 10 states held primaries or caucuses. The states making up Super Tuesday this year are (with the number of delegates in parenthesis):...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Newt Gingrich would score a Republican presidential primary victory Tuesday in Georgia, the state he once represented in Congress, CNN projected. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported the initial results -- nine of 2,850 precincts -- gave the...
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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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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Text Size Although North Dakota's delegates will not be assigned to any Republican presidential candidate until the state's Republican Convention in March, North Dakota's caucus will be a free-for-all -- at least for three of the four candidates.
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EW - PopWatch
| 1 year ago
The Presidential Election is actually an exciting carnival designed to distract Americans from the world's real problems, a carnival financed by an evil Fat Cat Coalition: Wall Street bankers, Russian oligarchs, the Reykjavik Fishmonger Mafia and...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney walks out of a production studio where he addressed Aipac by video-link in Hilliard, Ohio on Super Tuesday. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA Hundreds of thousands of Republicans were flocking to the polls on the biggest day of the...
