By Associated Press
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — When Rick Santorum told a Michigan crowd they had come to see him because "freedom is at stake in this election," a man in the crowd shouted a word that’s almost never heard at Mitt Romney’s campaign events: "Amen!"
When Romney went to Milford, Mich., to talk to tea party voters, he took a handful of pre-screened questions from event organizers. After Santorum wrapped up a 30-minute speech to several hundred tea partyers early on a Saturday in St. Clair Shores, he picked hands eagerly waving in the audience.
"I can’t get out of here alive without taking a few questions," the former Pennsylvania senator said.
Day by day, event by event, Michigan’s critical primary on Tuesday is crystallizing the dramatic differences between Romney, the on-again off-again GOP front-runner, and Santorum, his current top challenger for the Republican presidential nomination.
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — When Rick Santorum told a Michigan crowd they had come to see him because "freedom is at stake in this election," a man in the crowd shouted a word that’s almost never heard at Mitt Romney’s campaign events: "Amen!"
When Romney went to Milford, Mich., to talk to tea party voters, he took a handful of pre-screened questions from event organizers. After Santorum wrapped up a 30-minute speech to several hundred tea partyers early on a Saturday in St. Clair Shores, he picked hands eagerly waving in the audience.
"I can’t get out of here alive without taking a few questions," the former Pennsylvania senator said.
Day by day, event by event, Michigan’s critical primary on Tuesday is crystallizing the dramatic differences between Romney, the on-again off-again GOP front-runner, and Santorum, his current top challenger for the Republican presidential nomination.
Read more: http://news.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20120227differences_between_rick_santorum_mitt_romney_crystallize/srvc=home&position=recent
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