Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum in Near Dead Heat in Ohio
Front-runners increase efforts in Ohio as Super Tuesday approaches.
While the Republican presidential candidates crank up their efforts to woo Ohio voters through personal appearances, a new poll shows the two front-runners running neck-and-neck in Ohio just days before the primary election.
The NBC News/Marist Poll shows Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator, supported by 34 percent of likely GOP primary voters, and Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, with 32 percent.
Romney's and Santorum's campaigns lately have focused on Ohio, where 66 delegates are up for grabs. Santorum appeared at a dinner in Eastlake on Friday and is scheduled to appear in Cuyahoga Falls on Monday evening.
The two other candidates, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Rep. Ron Paul, lagged far behind the other candidates in the poll.
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10:05 am on Monday, March 5, 2012
The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee -- they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort to an idea that became a country -- was a nation governed by professional politicians who had an interest in getting re-elected. They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then eagerly looking forward to getting back to the farm.
RONALD REAGAN
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10:06 am on Monday, March 5, 2012
However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
GEORGE WASHINGTON