Santorum Suspends Presidential Campaign

bobwrit writes with this excerpt from CNN: "Conservative challenger Rick Santorum announced Tuesday that he is suspending his Republican presidential campaign after a weekend of 'prayer and thought,' effectively ceding the GOP nomination to front-runner Mitt Romney. Santorum made his announcement after the weekend hospitalization of his 3-year-old daughter Isabella, and in the face of tightening poll numbers in Pennsylvania — the state he represented as a U.S. senator — ahead of the April 24 primary. 'Ladies and gentlemen, we made the decision to get into this race around our kitchen table, against all the odds,' Santorum told a news conference, flanked by emotional family members. 'We made a decision over the weekend that while the presidential race for us is over, and I will suspend my campaign effective today, we are not done fighting.'"

Comments

Re:News for Nerds?

[tomhath]

Because nerds are somehow immune to the outcome of a national election

Because Santorum never had a chance. His backers were the same ones who pushed Gingrich and Bachmann; trying to make the Republicans attack each other for as long as possible before the one candidate who has a chance against Obama is nominated. Hey, it worked back in 1992, it might work again.

Re:Color me surprised. Or not.

[rrohbeck]

Ah, the old guy with outdated ideology and a racist past?
Great choice.