Santorum On Slippery Slope, Could Be In A Hole After Last Tuesday

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Santorum struggles to stay relevant as Romney and Obama begin face-off

"After a triple loss in Tuesday’s primaries and an uphill battle to win his home state, Santorum faces crucial test in coming weeks

Rick Santorum is struggling to stay relevant in the Republican presidential race after the frontrunner, Mitt Romney, and Barack Obama effectively kicked off the general election with hard hitting attacks on each other.

Romney’s wins in three Republican primaries on Tuesday has left Santorum facing what some political analysts regard as a crucial test of his ability to fight on with the contest in his home state of Pennsylvania on April 24. On Wednesday both candidates were campaigning in the state, which Santorum must win to keep his challenge alive.

Romney has already launched the first of what is expected to be a barrage of attack adverts targeting Santorum’s record as a US senator from the state for 12 years. Romney has accused him of betraying conservative values by voting to raise the national debt and of being compromised by years in Congress.

But the real battleground clearly shifted to the national stage on Tuesday as Obama – for the first time – launched a direct attack on Romney by accusing him of “thinly veiled social Darwinism” for supporting Republican budget proposals that sharply reduce taxes for millionaires while cutting public spending."

The whole process has been a corrupt obscenity that will climax in an orgy of touchscreen fraud.