Southern sweep for Rick Santorum in Mississippi, Alabama

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Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum moves forward to the next GOP primary battle with Southern wins in Alabama and Mississippi, condemning Mitt Romney’s prediction that his campaign was reaching a “desperate end.” Mitt Romney, who has been fighting to convince white evangelicals and other conservatives that he’s never been a liberal, was rejected by the South in the primaries on Tuesday.

Santorum took 35 percent of the vote in Alabama, while Newt Gingrich and Romney both had 29 percent, Gingrich with 2,000 more votes, and Ron Paul had 5 percent. In Mississippi, Santorum won 33 percent, Gingrich 31 percent, Romney 30 percent, and Paul 4 percent. In a speech to supporters in Louisiana on Tuesday night, Santorum said, “We did it again,” referring to his second place success on Super Tuesday last week. “People (said), ‘You’re being outspent (by Romney),’ and everybody’s talking about all the (delegate) math, and that his race is inevitable. Well, for someone who thinks this race is inevitable, (Romney) has spent a whole lot of money against me for being inevitable,” Santorum told the crowd. Romney did manage to win in the Hawaiian caucuses, also held on Tuesday. Romney took 45 percent of the vote, Santorum 25 percent, Paul 18 percent, and Gingrich, 11 percent.




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