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Tonight is the first multi-state night in the clown race we call the GOP nomination contest, with caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota, and a non-binding beauty contest in Missouri.
Results: CNN (CO, MO, MN) | Google (CO, MO, MN)
7:38 PM PT (Jed Lewison): The grossest headline you'll ever be happy you saw:
7:40 PM PT (David Jarman): Check out the suburbs to the north of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. If you're Mitt Romney, you're banking on these educated, upper-middle-class areas as your core. Today, Romney is in 3rd place in both, at 14% in Anoka Co. and 15% in Washington Co. (These counties are the bulk of Michele Bachmann's MN-06, with a big evangelical presence, though, which seems to have carried Santorum for the day.)
7:42 PM PT (David Jarman): Wondering who they like in Branson, Missouri? (Which is like Las Vegas, if it were run by Ned Flanders.) Rick Santorum's at 59% there (Taney County). In fact, Santorum's cresting 60 in much of southwest Missouri, a strongly evangelical area that's one of the real epicenters of the Bible Belt.
7:44 PM PT (Barbara Morrill):
7:52 PM PT (Jed Lewison): Rick "The Conservative Stool" Santorum is speaking now, claiming the mantle of the tea party. He says Obama is a "privileged person" who thinks he has the right "to rule over you."
7:52 PM PT: Kind of ironic that Santorum got the color pink, huh?
7:53 PM PT (Jed Lewison): Rick Santorum's backdrop: a bunch of a angry white dudes. But really given that it's Santorum, it could have been a worse backdrop.
7:55 PM PT (Kaili Joy Gray): The liveblogging continues in the next thread.