Rick Santorum Defeats Mitt Romney In Minnesota, Missouri, Colorado
In a move that shocked everyone, Rick Santorum won all three states in the Republican voting contest on Tuesday night, breaking Mitt Romney’s winning streak and ruining his image as the unstoppable front runner in the GOP contest. Based on the projections that came in last night via the different news networks, Santorum won won the Missouri primary and the Minnesota caucus, as well as the Colorado state caucus.
Mitt Romney managed to come in second in the state of Missouri, but did worse in Minnesota, where he placed third. Ron Paul did well in Minnesota, coming in second, and placing third in Missouri. Newt Gingrich wasn’t on the Missouri ballot, and he finished in fourth in Minnesota. At a victory rally in Missouri, Santorum predicted that Romney would be denied his oft-noted massive campaign organization come the fall. And he said of his own supporters’ cheers that “in Massachusetts, they were heard particularly loud tonight.”
These losses hit Romney pretty hard, who was the undisputed front runner in the GOP contest after wins in Florida and Nevada. He had been expecting to win in Minnesota and Colorado, where he won both states’ caucuses in 2008. Now he stands defeated in both states. His campaign has already starting making excuses by arguing that no candidate can win them all. John Petrocik, the chairman of the political science department at the University of Missouri, had this to say about Rick Santorum “This is a culturally conservative place. Conservative religious groups, they’re certainly a factor in Missouri, so I could imagine him doing fairly well.”
It’s going to be interesting to see how things play out in the GOP after this strong showing by Mr. Santorum.
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