It’s a huge three state sweep for Rick Santorum in Tuesday’s contests – Missouri by 30 points (55%-25%), Minnesota by 18 points (45%-27%), and Colorado by 5 points (40%-35%). Almost no one thought this was possible, although I must point out I said this morning I thought there was a chance Santorum would win all three! Indeed, he did. The race is very different now, with Santorum showing he can defeat Mitt Romney head-to-head and on his turf.
MSNBC: Rick Santorum swept three nominating contests held Tuesday evening, upsetting frontrunner Mitt Romney and injecting new energy into the former Pennsylvania senator’s campaign.
Santorum scored broad victories in the Minnesota caucus and a primary in Missouri, according to NBC News projections. But Santorum’s most significant upset came in Colorado, where the state GOP declared him the apparent victor in caucuses there. Romney made his hardest push of the three states in Colorado, having campaigned there and spent money on advertising. Santorum’s upset raises fresh doubts about the breadth of Romney’s appeal to Republicans, and abates some of the momentum Romney had built from consecutive victories in the Florida primary and Nevada caucus.
“I don’t stand here to be the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney; I stand here to be the conservative alternative to Barack Obama,” Santorum told a raucous crowd in Missouri. . . . Read More
Newt Gingrich finished way back in all three contests tonight (didn’t even make the ballot in Missouri). Given how poorly he has shown in the last several contests, look for pressure to increase on him to get out of the race so conservatives can galvanize around one candidate to stop Mitt Romney.
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