Super Tuesday
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A BIG ONE FOR SANTORUM
Rick Santorum’s victory in Tennessee strikes a real blow to Mitt Romney. The former Massachusetts governor wants to prove he can win in the South, despite his Mormon faith and rivals’ complaints that he’s too moderate.
Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, campaigned hard for Christian conservative votes in a state sometimes called the buckle of the Bible Belt. This win helps keep him in contention.
-Connie Cass
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Five states are down and five states are left to go. Here are the remaining states and when their polls close, or when caucus voting starts. All times EST.SUPER TUESDAY: HALFWAY POINT- Ohio - polls closed at 7:30 p.m.
- Oklahoma - polls closed at 8 p.m.
- North Dakota - caucuses started at 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
- Alaska - caucuses start at 8 p.m.
- Idaho - caucuses start at 9 p.m. and 10 p.m.
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Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich will receive Secret Service protection starting Wednesday. That's according to AP sources with knowledge of Gingrich's security plan. Mitt Romney has had protection since Feb. 1, and Rick Santorum got protection last week.NEXT UP FOR GINGRICH: Secret Service protection
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"I think he's put in his time. He's proven he's serious about winning. He's been tested through the last two elections now. He seems like he's going to be a real grown-up about leading our country. I think that would be very valuable for us."THE VOTERS SPEAK
-Kim Deti, of Cheyenne, Wyo., speaking about Mitt Romney at the Laramie County GOP caucus in Cheyenne.
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A peek inside the AP newsroom in Washington, where David Pace uses election results and exit poll data to call races.WATCHING AND CALLING
News Editor David Pace watches the as election results scroll across this screen in The Associated Press Washington Bureau, Tuesday, March 6, 2012. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)by J. David Ake on Mar 6, 2012 at 8:59 PM via email -
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SANTORUM’S DOUBLE PLAY
By winning both Oklahoma and Tennessee, Rick Santorum has pulled off a significant double play tonight. It proves he can outdo his big-spending rival Mitt Romney in parts of the country with lots of social values voters. If Santorum should also win Ohio - where the race is so far too close to call - it would add a big industrial state to his scorecard, too.
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Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are tied in the Super Tuesday prize of Ohio. With 10 percent of precincts reporting, each of them has 38 percent of the vote. Read more.EARLY IN OHIO: Too close for comfort
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Ron Paul faced a room full of supporters in Fargo, N.D., and had an adorable representative in Oklahoma City. Here's a slideshow.FROM THE RON PAUL CAMPAIGN
A supporter of Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, holds up a sign during the North Dakota caucus Tuesday, March 6, 2012 in Fargo, N.D. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)by ccarlson on Mar 6, 2012 at 9:19 PM
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, takes in the applause of the crowd as he address a crowd during the North Dakota caucus Tuesday, March 6, 2012, in Fargo, N.D. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)by ccarlson on Mar 6, 2012 at 9:19 PM
Carol Paul, left, wife of Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, laughs at her husband's remark before he addresses a crowd at the North Dakota caucus Tuesday, March 6, 2012, in Fargo, N.D. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)by ccarlson on Mar 6, 2012 at 9:19 PM
Eisley Collins, 2, snacks next to a Ron Paul sign at a Republican watch party in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, March 6, 2012. Voters lined up to cast ballots in the Super Tuesday contest in Oklahoma, where Republican Rick Santorum hoped his brand of social conservatism and recent campaign visits would translate to victory in the self-proclaimed "reddest of the red" states. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)by ccarlson on Mar 6, 2012 at 9:20 PM
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, signs a campaign poster for supporters before he addresses a crowd at the North Dakota caucus Tuesday, March 6, 2012, in Fargo, N.D. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogastby ccarlson on Mar 6, 2012 at 9:21 PMPreviousNext1 of 5
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Callista Gingrich is one of the top trends on Twitter right now. Well, more accurately, her hair is. Her carefully-calibrated, blonde coiffure always generates talk and even amid all the races on Super Tuesday, it still draws attention. Without further ado...CALLISTA'S HAIR: No votes, but lots of talk
Newt Gingrich and his wife Callista - and her much talked-about hair, arrive at a rally in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) -
AP's John Mone caught some of Mitt Romney's supporters waiting at Jimmy V's Pub in Columbus, Ohio, as the votes are counted. The initial tally showed Romney and Rick Santorum nearly tied.ROMNEY SUPPORTERS WAIT IN OHIO
What the crowd at Jimmy V's sees on the big screen. (AP Photo/John Mone)by JLMone on Mar 6, 2012 at 9:17 PM via email
Mitt Romney Supporters party at Jimmy V's Pub in Columbus. (AP Photo/John Mone)by JLMone on Mar 6, 2012 at 9:11 PM via email
Mitt Romney party continued. (AP Photo/John Mone)by JLMone on Mar 6, 2012 at 9:12 PM via email
The new bric-a-brac adorning Jimmy V's Pub in Columbus. (AP Photo/John Mone)by JLMone on Mar 6, 2012 at 9:12 PM via emailPreviousNext1 of 4
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QUOTABLE ROMNEY
“What a great night. There are three states under our belt now and counting. We’re going to get more before this night is over.” - Mitt Romney to supporters in Boston cheering his wins in Massachusetts, Virginia and Vermont.
Romney and his wife Ann greeting supporters as they arrive at their primary night rally in Boston.
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This is how AP journalists monitor all the candidates at once on election nights.LOOK OVER HERE: Watching candidate feeds
Incoming feeds from the candidates rallies are seen on small monitors on the television control desk on Super Tuesday evening in The Associated Press Washington bureau, Tuesday, March 6, 2012. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)by J. David Ake on Mar 6, 2012 at 9:33 PM via email -
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QUOTABLE ROMNEY
“You have not failed, you have a president that’s failed you. And that’s going to change.” - Mitt Romney’s message to Americans who can’t find jobs or can’t pay their bills.
He added: “You are not forgotten, we will not leave you behind. ... Real change is finally on the way.”
Read more from Romney's speech, which is still going on, in Boston.
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Punch it, tap it, push it, mark it.VOTING TECHNOLOGY THROUGH THE YEARS
This drawing shows American voters casting their ballots in a polling place in the election of 1860 at an unknown location. (AP Photo)by Jaime Holguin on Mar 6, 2012 at 8:02 PM
This voting machine was new to New Yorkers in 1933. (AP Photo)by Jaime Holguin on Mar 6, 2012 at 8:03 PM
This voting machine was used at a Tulsa, Okla., polling place during a primary election in 1962.by Jaime Holguin on Mar 6, 2012 at 8:12 PM
More than half of Americans who cast ballots in 2000 were estimated to have done so using technology developed in the 19th century, like this Shoup 3.2 mechanical voting machine.by Jaime Holguin on Mar 6, 2012 at 8:16 PM
In 2003, about 29 percent of an estimated 1.86 million voters in Mississippi were still using punch cards and lever-operated machines like this one.by Jaime Holguin on Mar 6, 2012 at 8:20 PM
By 2010, voters in Bay St. Louis, Miss. had migrated to electronic voting machines, like this one.by Jaime Holguin on Mar 6, 2012 at 8:51 PMPreviousNext1 of 6
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LARRY CRAIG TRIES A DIFFERENT KIND OF FOOT TAPPING
Former U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, is starting off the caucus in Ada County, Idaho, by singing the National Anthem in a duet with a Boise high school student. About 8,500 Republicans are on hand to caucus.Craig was arrested in June 2007 by an undercover police officer conducting a sting operation against men cruising for sex at the Minneapolis airport. As his political career disintegrated, Craig insisted he was not gay and the officer had misconstrued his foot tapping.
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SANTORUM TAKES A CAUCUS
By extending his string of wins tonight to North Dakota, Rick Santorum strengthens his argument that he can best better-funded rival Mitt Romney in all sorts of places. Santorum won two conservative Southern states, Tennessee and Oklahoma. But he’s in a near tie with Romney in industrial Ohio.
And he points to other states he’d already racked up this year in his effort to upset Romney as the front-runner: Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado and the non-binding Missouri primary.
“We have won in the West, the Midwest and the South and we’re ready to win across this country,” Santorum told supporters tonight.
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Nuns are among the supporters cheering on Rick Santorum in Ohio.SISTERS FOR SANTORUM
Sister Grace Anne, right, of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother, prays at Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's election night party at Steubenville High School, Tuesday, March 6, 2012, in Steubenville, Ohio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)by ccarlson on Mar 6, 2012 at 10:26 PM
Sister Grace Anne, of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother, prays at Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's Election Night Party at Steubenville High School, Tuesday, March 6, 2012, in Steubenville, Ohio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)by ccarlson on Mar 6, 2012 at 10:27 PM
Sisters Maria Claire, left, and Catherine Lynn, right, visit and watch election results at Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's election night party at Steubenville High School, Tuesday, March 6, 2012, in Steubenville, Ohio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)by ccarlson on Mar 6, 2012 at 10:27 PMPreviousNext1 of 3
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Mitt Romney's lackluster showing tonight still moves him closer to the Republican nomination. But he's going to have to work hard to woo unhappy independents.AFTER TONIGHT, ROMNEY'S JOB GETS TOUGHERRomney's losses in Tennessee and Oklahoma, coupled with his struggle against Rick Santorum in Ohio, will not change GOP operatives' conviction that he is the likeliest nominee. He still has the most delegates, money, organization and experience.
But this Super Tuesday turn of events underscores Romney's challenge in winning independent voters turned off by the long, divisive primary. Read more.
-Charles Babington
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