Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum snagged a political lifeline Tuesday with victories in the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses and the Missouri primary.
Santorum’s win put a roadblock in front of Mitt Romney’s two-state victory streak and underscores the former Massachusetts governor’s continued failure to resonate with the Republican party’s most conservative voting bloc.
Santorum’s victory in Missouri was particularly commanding. He had 55 percent of the vote in unofficial returns, compared with 25 percent for Romney, 12 percent for Ron Paul and 4 percent for Newt Gingrich.
