Santorum wins Ala, Miss too close to call.

[powderman]

    The Ticket   Breaking News 

• Santorum wins Republican presidential primary in AlabamaAP

   REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES    Alabama 57.49% ReportingView full results  HI MS 

•   Rick Santorum 32.77%
•   Newt Gingrich 31.66%
•   Mitt Romney 30.11%
•   Ron Paul 4.38%

AL 

•   Rick Santorum 34.59%
•   Newt Gingrich 29.93%
•   Mitt Romney 28.21%
•   Ron Paul 5.03%

 

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• Why Romney can't quite close

      Santorum wins Alabama, leads in tight Mississippi race      By Chris Moody | The Ticket – 1 hr 37 mins ago     
 

• Santorum, Gingrich, Romney and Paul (Matt Rourke/AP)

   Rick Santorum has won the Republican primary in Alabama, and leads Newt Gingrich in Mississippi by just over 1 percentage point with 75 percent of the vote reported. Mitt Romney trails Gingrich by an additional 1.5 points.
Prior to the elections, all four candidates spent time campaigning in the region. Santorum this week downplayed his chances of sweeping the night like he did in February in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, but said it was important to place well in order to carry on.
"We've got to come in here and do well," Santorum said during a stop in Tuscaloosa on Monday.
Over the past month, money from super PACs supporting the candidates poured in both states. According to a Bloomberg News analysis of marketing data, the groups "supplied 91 percent of the 5,592 campaign ads that aired on broadcast television stations in the two states in the past month," with pro- Romney ads making up "65 percent of all ads."
In the days leading up to the primaries, polls showed tight races in Mississippi and Alabama. The Real Clear Politics polling average in Alabama put Gingrich in the lead by less than one percentage point over Romney, with Santorum trailing by just three percentage points. In Mississippi, the polling data was similar but much spottier, with Gingrich leading Romney by two percentage points and Santorum by five according to a single Public Policy Polling survey.
Republicans in American Somoa and Hawaii are also voting today, but results from those contests won't be made available for several hours.
Up next is a 52-delegate caucus in Missouri--where Santorum won a so-called "beauty contest" election last month--followed by primaries in Puerto Rico, Illinois and Louisiana over the next few weeks.
This story was last updated at 10:04 p.m. ET.

[nomosendero]

As I have said before, I can't get very enthused with any, but Santorum is better than Gingrich & far better than Romney, definately the sorry one of the pack.
 
Paul made a dang good run & he will stay in, but being nominated just isn't going to happen.

[Graybeard]

At 11:00 PM central time CNN has declared Santorum the winner in both Bama and MS. Romney was able to pull out third in both.

Paul got mine and Faye's vote today but honestly I think it's time for him and Newt both to drop out and endorse Santorum and hope he can beat Romney. He is the only one with a chance to do so now.

Since Newt can't even win in the south he's done for and should man up and admit it.

[powderman]

Paul got mine and Faye's vote today but honestly I think it's time for him and Newt both to drop out and endorse Santorum and hope he can beat Romney. He is the only one with a chance to do so now.

 
Agreed Sir. Both are just dividing the party even more now. I think Santorum has a chance at beating obummer, I don't think romney does. Beating obama is the priority and we must choose somebody with a chance of doing so. POWDERMAN. 

[nomosendero]

Yep