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Cenk gets an ‘elbow from the sky’ for blowing Santorum prediction
Some weeks ago, after the Florida primary, The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur predicted that Rick Santorum would drop out of the race on the night of February 7 after getting pummeled in the midwestern caucuses. On Wednesday night’s episode, Cenk demonstrated his willingness to own up to a wrong…
Republican enthusiasm gap could help Obama
Mitt Romney’s three-state shellacking by Rick Santorum laid bare the Republican White House frontrunner’s Achilles heel — an inability to motivate the party’s conservative base. The enthusiasm gap — revealed in low overall turnout at caucuses and primaries and Romney’s tepid polling numbers — could end up handing President Barack…
Rick Santorum: ‘Conservatives beginning to get it’
After sweeping GOP contests Tuesday in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says conservative voters are finally beginning to understand that he is the strongest candidate to take on President Barack Obama. “I believe conservatives are beginning to get it, that we provide the best opportunity to…
Watch: Rick Santorum tours Bemidji sweater vest factory
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum toured the Bemidji, Minnesota factory that manufactures his signature sweater vest on Sunday, and newspaper columnists had a field day with the event. “On Sunday, sweater vest-loving GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum will be like a kid in a candy store,” the Fox News affiliate…
Poll: Romney narrowly trails Santorum in Minnesota caucuses
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — The Republican caucuses in Minnesota on Tuesday are a virtual toss up, with frontrunner Mitt Romney trailing former senator Rick Santorum by a small margin, a poll showed Sunday. Romney, who strengthened his lead for the White House race with a solid win Saturday in the Nevada…
Satire: Santorum thinks ‘it’s never polite to look a rape horse in the mouth’
From the satirists that brought you comedian Andy Cobb as “a godless heathen” mocking Rick Perry’s bizarre anti-gay political ad comes a tidal wave of sarcasm cresting off Rick Santorum’s odd statement that women who are the victims of rape should “make the best of a bad situation” and go…
Santorum campaign on hold due to daughter’s illness
FORT MYERS, Florida — Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum put campaigning in Florida on hold Sunday, as his daughter, Bella, was hospitalized just days before a key primary vote. Two days before Florida’s winner-takes-all primary, Santorum spent the day in Pennsylvania, where his three year-old was admitted to a Philadelphia…
Rick Santorum gets glitter bombed again
Glitter has certainly found a way towards Rick Santorum’s face on the campaign trail. While greeting supporters after a third place finish in the South Carolina Primary, the former Pennsylvania Senator was approached by ‘Occupy’ protesters not pleased over his anti-gay views. “Hate, gay rights!” a woman shouted before throwing…
Colbert: This is Gingrich’s ‘Titanic’ moment
Thursday night on The Colbert Report, Stephen recounted some of the turbulence currently roiling the GOP presidential field. In Iowa, state Republicans are reporting that Rick Santorum actually won the caucus there, robbing Mitt Romney of the chance to score a record three wins if he take South Carolina this…
Santorum, not Romney, declared winner in Iowa
WASHINGTON — The Republican Party on Thursday declared Rick Santorum the winner of the Iowa caucuses, upending frontrunner Mitt Romney who was originally shown to have won the first-in-the-US presidential nomination vote two weeks ago. A certified vote count showed Santorum 34 votes ahead of Romney, in a sure boost…
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