Santorum Sweeps 3 States, including Colorado, on ‘Mini-Tuesday’

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No delegates were directly awarded by Tuesday night’s primary in
Missouri (it was non-binding) or caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota (as
in Iowa, they were merely precinct-delegate elections accompanied by a
presidential poll). But the results — Rick Santorum’s stunning sweep of
all three states — were nonetheless a major rebuke to Mitt Romney.

Santorum could not have had a better night. He won Missouri by a
stunning 30 points over the second-place Romney. In Minnesota, Romney
polled a distant third, with Ron Paul in second place. And in Colorado,
where Romney thought he had a safe lead, Santorum staged an upset.

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