Primaries - State Results - Election Center 2012 - Elections & Politics. The High Stakes in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri. Mitt Romney | Rick Santorum | Colorado. Coming off weeks of alternately attacking Newt Gingrich and President Barack Obama, the Romney campaign switched gears on Monday and came out swinging against former Sen. Rick Santorum, who looks to be Romney’s toughest competition in the three primary contests on Tuesday. Minnesota and Colorado hold their caucuses on Tuesday, and Missouri holds a non-binding primary that day. Polls suggest that Santorum could perform strongly, especially in Missouri and Minnesota. In Minnesota, Santorum actually edges Romney 29 percent to 27 percent. In Colorado, he holds a distant second place 14 points behind Romney, but leads Gingrich by 8 points, suggesting that he may be taking the place of the former speaker of the House as the Romney alternative.
The Romney campaign seems aware of the challenge and blasted out three emails Monday morning going after Santorum’s record. The Romney campaign did not respond to request for comment by press time. Santorum running strong in early results. Santorum wins Colorado, along with victories in Missouri and Minnesota Mitt Romney stresses party unity in congratulating Santorum "Conservatism is alive and well," Santorum tells supporters The delegate total of 70 in Colorado and Minnesota is the biggest so far of campaign (CNN) -- Rick Santorum awoke to a new reality Wednesday after sweeping all three Republican presidential contests a day earlier, reshaping the contest that will decide who runs against President Barack Obama in November.
Santorum won caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado, as well as a nonbinding primary in Missouri to energize his campaign and raise questions about front-runner Mitt Romney's ability to attract broad conservative support. The victories by Santorum bolstered his contention that he is the strongest conservative challenger to the more moderate Romney for the GOP nomination, and the most formidable conservative candidate to take on Obama. Romney congratulates Santorum Colorado GOP chair: 'Santorum wins' To Rep. Mitt Romney | Rick Santorum | Colorado. Ron Paul turns to Minnesota. Reporting from Washington — The last time Nevada Republicans caucused in a presidential contest, they delivered a stunning second-place finish to Texas Rep.
Ron Paul, the libertarian-minded candidate who had been largely written off, averaging last place in polls leading up to caucus day. The lesson was that Paul may not appeal to a broad base of voters, but the people who like him can be counted on to turn up and disproportionately represent themselves at caucus events, which typically draw few participants. Four years later, Paul has turned the lesson of Nevada into a national campaign strategy, focusing his attention on caucus states where his loyal followers could keep him in the delegate hunt.
That’s why the Texas congressman skipped the Florida primary and focused his efforts instead on Maine, a state that has been holding something of a multi-day caucus that Paul could very well win. “It sounds like the revolution has already come to Minnesota!”