In an interview today on CNN's John King, USA, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum spoke with CNN anchor and chief national correspondent John King about his recent controversial remarks on earmarks, homosexuality and race.

Here's the thing: there's roughly a one-in-four chance that Santorum actually received the most votes.

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In the outgoing messages, there is a series of increasingly emphatic and erratically spelled texts from you to all your friends about something called a santorum. The worse your spelling gets, the more excited you seem to be about whatever this is.

Santorum has long opposed the Supreme Court's 1965 ruling “that invalidated a Connecticut law banning contraception” and has also pledged to completely defund federal funding for contraception if elected president. As he

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Senator John McCain Endorses Mitt Romney (Video). Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, January 4, 2012, 6:06 PM. Yawn. Senator John McCain endorsed Mitt Romney today.

With fewer votes than he received in 2008, Mitt Romney might be the winner, but this was and always has been his race to lose. He will win handily in New Hampshire, but failing to decisively defeat the pack will hurt him going

By Ethan Gilsdorf Artist Casey Jex Smith depicts Mitt Romney as the D&D character Lord Speldyall. It is one of the works in the Dungeons and Dragons On & Ever Onward art show in New York. Today and tomorrow mark what looks to be an exciting series of

By Robert Bianco, USA TODAY This time, the attack comes from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who has called for an end to federal funding for the public broadcasting service. To make up for the shortfall, he wants PBS to begin running

Narrow Iowa victory in hand, Mitt Romney was looking toward the next-up New Hampshire primary – essentially on his home turf – and shaper criticism from his Republican rivals, including chief challenger Rick Santorum.

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Dan Savage, saying that the media should stop accepting homophobes' claims of having gay friends. Labels: Dan Savage, HomoQuotable, Rick Santorum. Reposted from Joe. Posted by Daniel Clark Orey at 6:52 AM

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Dan Savage, Santorum's personal tormenter. Looks like ex-Senator Rick Santorum is the Of course, any time that Santorum slides into the news, the REAL winner is Dan Savage…I shudder to think how he'll respond in the

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The billionaire master of the Fox News Channel is blowing kisses to surging Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum in the last hours before Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses. In one of his first Twitter offerings, Rupert

URBANDALE, Iowa — Rick Santorum used his last campaign stop before the caucuses on Tuesday to attack the left for opposing abstinence-only education and supporting gay rights, telling a crowd of students and parents at a Christian school that

Though Santorum's old-fashioned, shoe-leather approach to campaigning paid off in Iowa, the question for him now is how far he can go from here, given his lack of resources and the need to ramp up a national organization.

Rick Santorum is on the verge of a stunning upset victory over Gov. Mitt Romney in the Iowa caucuses, leading by a margin of just several dozen votes. (Update: The lead has changed hands yet again, with a few results still

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Ron Paul has distanced himself from a series of controversial newsletters from the 1980s and 1990s that bore his name and included inflammatory and racially charged language. As the newsletters burst into view, first during his 2008 presidential bid

Top-tier candidates Ron Paul and Rick Santorum and the trailing Michele Bachmann will each address about 800 students in the gymnasium of Valley High School beginning at 9:45. Already, dozens of journalists are in place and a crew of students in

I don't support Ron Paul (I want Bachmann or Santorum, and will grudgingly accept Newt if I must), but Ron Paul's biggest problem is his own supporters. Einy – January 2nd, 2012 at 6:18 pm. You have to be Pro-America first,

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INDIANOLA, Iowa — Everywhere Rick Santorum goes, he has been there before. As of Tuesday when Iowa holds its caucuses, he will have spent 105 days in the state and held more than 312 events, some of the more recent ones actually attended by voters.

It's Rick Santorum. In 1960, a Republican senator named Barry Goldwater published a little book called The Conscience of a Conservative. The first printing of 10000 copies led to a second of the same size, then a third of 50000, until ultimately it

Earlier today, Alan Colmes made headlines by making an unseemly comment about Rick Santorum– namely, about his child who died hours after being born. Colmes let his Twitter followers know that he did his part to

Rick Santorum's top opponent in Iowa is Mitt Romney and the biggest argument against a President Romney is healthcare, the former Pennsylvania senator told me. “This has been a debate about health care, that's what the behemoth of government,

Good grief. At a campaign stop in Sioux City, Iowa on Sunday, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum singled out blacks as being recipients of assistance through federal benefit programs, telling a mostly-white

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Howard Kurtz reports on how the crazy-quilt caucuses and the media's spin game often provide a distorted picture of the presidential race. When the Iowa caucus results trickle in Tuesday night, the usual rules of mathematics may be suspended.

Teacher Michael Voynovich says Iowa's caucus system is very different from Ohio's primaries. He says Iowans and the students have the ability to get close to the candidates. Teacher Michael Voynovich says Iowa 's caucus system is very different from

Iowa Caucus Predictions. Because it would just be chicken to wait until any closer to make them. My predictions: Paul — 24% Santorum — 22% Romney — 20% Gingrich — 13% Perry — 9% Bachmann — 9% Huntsman — 3%

The GOP caucus is on Tuesday. You will win nothing but honor for a correct guess. Nate Silver raises some interesting points about Iowa. In the GOP caucus, according to political scientists, moderates under perform their poll

With Santorum passing Paul on the last two of four days of polling, here is where the Des Moines Register poll puts things. Romney 24% Paul 22% Santorum 15% Gingrich 12% Perry 11% Bachmann 7%. Here are the actual

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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who is just barely trailing Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the latest Iowa poll, defended his 2008 endorsement of Romney for president on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday morning.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum implied that President Barack Obama should be pro-life because he's black, in an interview with CNS back in January 2011 (hat tip Buzzfeed). Santorum challenged Obama over the idea of personhood,

Abortion: Santorum “believes (and) cherishes the ideal culture of life,” according to his website. He authored a bill outlawing partial-birth abortion and led an effort to pass legislation that would protect aborted infants born alive and another law

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum once again touted his support for a federal ban on gay marriage, saying on Saturday that any now-legal same-sex marriages would be invalid under a constitutional

Surging Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was pelted with glitter at his final campaign event Friday night in Johnston, Iowa. “Stop the hate! screamed an unidentified gay activist, who chucked glitter into the

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By Shira Schoenberg, Globe Correspondent Why hasn't Rick Santorum, who spent 16 years in Congress, gotten a single congressional endorsement? According to Santorum, the answer is simple. “I haven't asked anybody,” Santorum said, when asked by David

Richard John "Rick" Santorum is a former United States Senator from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Santorum is a member of the Republican Party and was the chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, the

Rick Santorum would bomb Iran, Ron Paul cites 'human flaw' for racist newsletters, Rick Perry's campaign turns on him, and more in our Sunday Talk roundup. Rick Santorum is the latest candidate to enjoy a surge in the polls, but will voters line up for

1, 2012, at 1:07 PM ET (Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is interviewed prior to a campaign stop at The Button Factory restaurant on Dec. 29 in Muscatine, Iowa.) Think the United States should bomb Iran? Rick Santorum may be your

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WASHINGTON — Republican Rick Santorum says that if he's elected president, he would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities unless they were opened for international arms inspectors. Santorum says President Barack Obama

Conducted from Tuesday to Friday, Mitt Romney leads with 24 percent, followed by Ron Paul at 22 percent, and Rick Santorum at 15 percent. Newt Gingrich is at 12 percent, Rick Perry 11 percent, and Michele Bachmann at 7

OTTUMWA, IOWA — Rick Santorum saw this coming. For months, he's promised reporters (and anyone else that would listen) his moment was just around the corner. With the results of the final Des Moines Register poll

Ex-Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, who is nipping at the heels of Mitt Romney in the latest polls, said on Fox News Sunday that he'd bomb Iran's nuclear facilities if the regime didn't bow to his demands. Accusing President Obama of turning America

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