Rick Santorum tries to muscle past Mitt Romney, Ron Paul
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) - 28 minutes ago
Rick Santorum speaks during a campaign stop at the Rising Sun Cafe in Polk City, Iowa. AP/Eric Gay PERRY, Iowa — A confident Rick Santorum, surging in the polls, challenged Republican conservatives to rally to his side on Monday, as he took shots at ...
Rick Santorum's endorsement regret: Why he backed Romney in '08
Christian Science Monitor - 48 minutes ago
Rick Santorum is surging in Iowa just before the caucuses Tuesday, giving Mitt Romney a run for his money. Back in 2008, Santorum gave Romney something else: his support. By Amanda Paulson, Staff Writer / January 2, 2012 Republican presidential ...
Iowa sleeper Santorum sends caucus rivals scrambling
Reuters - 1 hour ago
By Steve Holland | DES MOINES (Reuters) - With time running out, rivals of surging Republican Rick Santorum raised doubts about his conservative record on Monday in hopes of heading off a last-minute victory by the former senator a day before Iowa ...
In Iowa, Specter endorsement haunts Rick Santorum
Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago
By Paul West As Rick Santorum rises in the polls, the Republican presidential candidate is receiving fresh scrutiny over his endorsement of moderate Republican incumbent Arlen Specter against a strong conservative challenger in the 2004 GOP Senate ...
What Rick Santorum and John Edwards have in common
Washington Post (blog) - 9 hours ago
For six years — from 1998 to 2004 — Rick Santorum and John Edwards served in the Senate together. And it would seem that that time spent in the world's greatest deliberative body is about all the two men ever had in common. ...
Iowa caucus -- myths and reality
CNN - 6 hours ago
By John Avlon, CNN Contributor Former Senator Rick Santorum, at a campaign stop in Sioux City, Iowa., has moved up rapidly in the closely contested Iowa polls. Editor's note: John Avlon is a CNN contributor and senior political columnist for Newsweek ...
Rick Perry Says Bachmann, Santorum Lack National Organization to Continue
ABC News (blog) - 6 hours ago
Rick Perry views the road beyond Iowa as one working more in his favor than in Michele Bachmann's or Rick Santorum's, saying the two rivals, who are competing for the same conservative evangelical votes, have no national organization to be viable in ...
GOP Candidates Court Iowa Voters, Pile on Santorum
ABC News - 2 hours ago
Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania speaks outside the Pella Public Library during a campaign stop, Pella, Iowa, Dec. 31, 2011. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Republican candidates stepped up attacks against President Obama and each other in the last full day of ...
GOP rivals step up attacks on Santorum
USA TODAY - 2 hours ago
By Catalina Camia, USA TODAY DES MOINES -- Rick Santorum is getting more slings and arrows from his GOP rivals today, as the race to win the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses heats up on the eve of voting. Rick Perry, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney each took ...
Rick Santorum's Last-Minute Crusade in Iowa
Daily Beast - 6 hours ago
Rick Santorum is on a mission. The once darker-than-dark horse candidate for president has become the latest member of the GOP pack to rocket up in the polls, moving from single digits to a strong third place finish in the highly influential Des Moines ...
Santorum's fundraising soars along with his poll numbers
CNN (blog) - 3 hours ago
Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) - Rick Santorum's poll numbers aren't the only thing on the rise. The former senator from Pennsylvania's fundraising figures are also skyrocketing. A senior Santorum adviser tells CNN the campaign raised more money in the last ...
US elections 2012: evangelical Christians scramble to unite behind Rick Santorum
Telegraph.co.uk - 1 hour ago
Evangelical Christians and anti-abortion activists across Iowa were on Monday night scrambling to unite the Republican Right behind Rick Santorum, in an attempt to stop Mitt Romney running away with the party's presidential nomination. ...
Perry: Santorum can't beat Obama
CBS News - 4 hours ago
DES MOINES, Iowa - Rick Perry kicked off his last full day of campaigning in Iowa today with a round of TV interviews that made one thing clear: he has his sights firmly trained on Rick Santorum in a last-minute attempt to woo Iowa evangelicals. ...
Santorum Seeks to Broaden His Appeal Beyond Evangelicals
New York Times - 5 hours ago
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Emboldened by evidence that his sudden burst in the polls was building, Rick Santorum came to this conservative corner of rural Iowa on Sunday to try to cement his status as the anti-Mitt Romney candidate, and he urged his supporters ...
Rick Santorum: British Empire's Decline Due To Growth Of Social Programs
Huffington Post - 44 minutes ago
BOONE, Iowa -- Rick Santorum said Monday that the United Kingdom's development of a social safety net, including universal health care, cost the nation its empire and "world domination," a mantle he said the United States has assumed but is in danger ...
Santorum's Support Builds Ahead Of Iowa Caucuses
NPR - 9 hours ago
by Ted Robbins Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum points to a television showing his campaign stop on live at the Daily Grind coffee shop in Sioux City, Iowa, Sunday. Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum points to a television ...
Rick Santorum's surge comes with scrutiny
The State Column - 4 hours ago
The most recent polls of Iowa caucus voters show former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum surging into third place behind Texas congressman Ron Paul and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Mr. Santorum is quickly finding out that just like the ...
Will Rick Santorum win in Iowa?
CBS News - 19 hours ago
Rick Santorum speaks to local residents during a campaign stop at the Daily Grind coffee shop, Jan. 1, 2012, in Sioux City, Iowa. DES MOINES, IOWA--Rick Santorum is so hot right now, you'd think he was the cure to something. When pollsters for the Des ...
Rick Santorum hopes his appeal as 'consistent conservative' lifts him to ...
Washington Post - Jan 1, 2012
WASHINGTON — Rick Santorum has never been shy about picking fights, even with fellow Republicans. Just two months after arriving in the Senate in 1995 as Pennsylvania's junior senator, an upstart Santorum and some other conservative senators tried to ...
Rick Santorum rises with blue-collar pitch
Politico - 21 hours ago
DES MOINES – The Santorum Surge? It's hard even to say it without cracking a smile. The notion of former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum coming from out of nowhere to be a major factor in Republican presidential politics does indeed sound a bit like a ...
Late-Breaking and Game-Changing: Rick Santorum Is Red Hot in Iowa
TIME - 10 hours ago
By Alex Altman | @aaltman82 | January 2, 2012 | + Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks during a campaign stop at the Daily Grind coffee shop on January 1, 2012 in Sioux City, Iowa. It took about 375 events, but Rick Santorum is ...
Rick Santorum uses race to slam 'divider-in-chief' Barack Obama
The Grio - 5 hours ago
By David A. Love Republican presidential candidate former US Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) speaks during a campaign stop on December 31, 2011 in Ottumwa, Iowa. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Rick Santorum is a former senator, presidential candidate ...
Surging Rick Santorum urges Iowa to send "shock wave"
Reuters - 21 hours ago
By Steve Holland | SIOUX CITY, Iowa (Reuters) - Surging Republican Rick Santorum urged his supporters in Iowa on Sunday to "send a shock wave across this country" by voting for him in Tuesday's first US presidential contest of the 2012 election. ...
Late-surging Santorum looks to rally voters ahead of Iowa caucuses
CNN - Jan 1, 2012
Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) -- Rick Santorum started the new year riding the wave of a strong finish in the last major poll before Tuesday's Iowa caucuses and looked to rally his supporters in a series of events on Sunday. There were few surprises in ...
Santorum makes his case in Iowa, apologizes for past "tone"
CBS News - 2 hours ago
Rick Santorum, newly christened by the polls as a serious candidate in Iowa, is beginning to make the case for why he is a better choice than front-runner Mitt Romney, describing the former Massachusetts governor as vulnerable on important issues like ...
Evangelical voters may be gathering behind Rick Santorum
Atlanta Journal Constitution - 9 hours ago
By Jim Galloway and Jeremy Redmon DES MOINES, Iowa – Conservative evangelicals on Sunday showed signs of coalescing behind former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum – raising the possibility of a surprise finish in caucuses that will mark the formal ...
Rick Santorum edges up in Iowa polls
Boston Herald - 9 hours ago
Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. “I'ma conservative. I'm proud to be a conservative businessman,” Romney said at the Family Table restaurant in Atlantic, adding that Santorum “was kind enough to endorse me the last time around.” A poll released Saturday ...
GOP presidential candidates make all-out, final-day push before the Iowa ...
New York Daily News - 52 minutes ago
BY Jonathan Lemire Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks during a campaign stop Monday at the Rising Sun Cafe in Polk City, Iowa. Polls show the former US Senator from Pennsylvania, once an afterthought in the state, could take the ...
Who Is Rick Santorum?
The Atlantic - 15 hours ago
ROCK RAPIDS, IOWA -- Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator who's enjoying a last-minute surge in Iowa in advance of Tuesday's Republican caucuses, has made a name for himself in Iowa but is still a mostly unknown quantity nationally. ...
Rick Santorum Finally Gets His Media Moment
Huffington Post - 22 hours ago
ANKENY, Iowa -- Rick Santorum, perhaps accustomed to TV talking heads dismissing his candidacy, told voters Saturday not to listen to the pundits. But it's the pundits who are now listening to him. Political reporters and commentators have been ...
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