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Santorum wins Alabama and Mississippi primaries
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — White House hopefuls were locked in a three-way fight Tuesday as they battled for dominance in key southern states Alabama and Mississippi, which could bust open the unruly Republican presidential race. The race was too close to call as the polls shut in the deeply conservative states,…
Santorum co-chair: Romney should ‘renounce his racist Mormon religion’
An African-American pastor affiliated with Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is demanding that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney “renounce his racist Mormon religion.” At a press conference on Monday, Rev. O’Neal Dozier, who is an honorary chairman of Santorum’s Florida campaign, said that he was speaking out to “foster and…
Santorum: ‘It should be illegal to read off a teleprompter’
In Rick Santorum’s perspective, no presidential candidate should ever be allowed to use a teleprompter on the campaign trail. The former Pennsylvania senator expressed his unorthodox view in his latest attack of the speech reading device Sunday afternoon, according to CNN. While campaigning at a restaurant in Gulfport, Mississippi, Santorum…
Republican 2012 race ‘mathematically’ over: Graham
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney has all but won the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, top senator Lindsey Graham said Sunday, agreeing with the candidate that “mathematically, this thing is about over.” Romney has won 14 of 25 state-by-state votes that decide which Republican candidate takes on President Barack Obama in November,…
Rick Santorum wins Kansas caucuses
GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum was declared the winner of the Kansas caucuses Saturday afternoon by a comfortable margin, becoming the eight state captured by the former Pennsylvania senator. The result was expected as Santorum polled favorably in the state as he emerged in the race as frontrunner Mitt Romney’s latest rival. Santorum will…
Republican race moves to the conservative heartland
The battle for the Republican Party crown moves into new territory Saturday, with the “reddest of the red” states, conservative heartland Kansas, heading for the polls amid attempts by Rick Santorum to hobble Mitt Romney’s slow march forward. In normal times, Saturday’s caucuses in Midwestern Kansas would merit only a…
Mississippi governor endorses Romney
WASHINGTON — Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney picked up the key endorsement of Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant, days ahead of a primary in the conservative southern state. Bryant said on Thursday he thought Romney had the best chance of beating President Barack Obama in November’s general election and believes…
Santorum campaign caught sending spam emails
The presidential campaign of former Sen. Rick Santorum is allegedly sending out unsolicited emails based on contact lists that it has obtained, a practice commonly known as spamming. The Next Web first reported that the Santorum campaign was sending unsolicited emails. Emails and a screenshot (see below) obtained by Raw…
Michael Moore: GOP race could ‘go from dog-on-car to man-on-dog’
Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore is warning Democrats not to get too “giddy” over the possibility that Rick Santorum could be the Republican presidential nominee. During the Super Tuesday primaries, GOP hopeful Mitt Romney failed to deliver a knockout punch to Santorum, who won Oklahoma, North Dakota and Tennessee. Moore told…
Super Tuesday: Romney wins five states, Santorum trails behind
Former Gov. Mitt Romney narrowly defeated former Sen. Rick Santorum on Tuesday in the battleground state of Ohio, according to the Associated Press. Underscoring the continuing contentious and divided nature of national Republicans, the remaining GOP presidential candidates split the Super Tuesday contests amongst themselves, once again denying Romney the…
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