- otus
- April 4, 2012
AC
PITTSBURGH - The morning after Mitt Romney defeated Rick Santorum in three more primary state elections, Santorum's staff awoke to national headlines declaring an all but official end to the primary season. "The Game is over," announced CBS News. "The fat lady has sung," said ABC News. What's an insurgent campaign to do? The same thing the Santorum team has done all year: Ignore the noise. "We've heard that since McCain in '08--that it's going to be Romney--so that's nothing new," Santorum communication director Hogan Gidley told reporters late Tuesday night in Mars, Pennsylvania, where Santorum held a primary night rally. "If this thing was all about D.C. pressure for us to get out we'd have never even set foot in Iowa. This thing's been going on for a long time. We're not worried at all about the pressure we're going to get from the outside D.C. world, we've had it from the get go." Romney was indeed viewed as the most likely candidate to win the...