Presidential Candidate

In a move that all but assures Mitt Romney will become the GOP nominee for president, fellow candidate Rick Santorum decided Monday to drop out of the race. Sources say Santorum called Romney to let him know before making the announcement at a press conference in Gettysburg, PA around 2 p.m. ET. The news came shortly after Santorum said he was resuming his campaign after a brief suspension when his daughter, Bella, was hospitalized due to complications from a rare genetic disorder.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Don’t expect Mitt Romney to spend a lot of time trying to get voters to like him this fall. Instead, the likely Republican presidential nominee will probably rely on a ton of campaign cash and a barrage of nasty attack ads ripping into President Barack Obama for policies that Romney says aren’t helping the economy recover fast enough...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain says Rick Santorum should recognize “it’s time for a graceful exit” from the Republican presidential campaign in the wake of Mitt Romney’s sweep of primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia...

BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) — Well-traveled routes that serve as Wisconsin’s vital arteries also provide a window into the competing hopes for Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. Romney can roll up a solid win in Tuesday’s presidential primary with a strong showing along the state’s east-west Interstate 94, which bisects Milwaukee’s GOP-rich western suburbs...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is drastically reorganizing his money- and delegate-deprived campaign to focus on low-cost social media and an effort to cajole delegates to back him over front-runner Mitt Romney...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has appeared outside the Supreme Court, where the justices are hearing arguments over whether President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul is constitutional. Santorum pressed his own argument that he’s the best candidate to challenge Obama on the health care issue in the fall...

Looks like President Obama’s re-election campaign is well on its way to having the same kind of digital success that helped him secure the presidency in the first place. According to a recent Nielsen analysis, the president’s website attracted more unique voting-age visitors than the sites for the four remaining GOP candidates — combined.

On the NBC drama ‘The West Wing,’ the Secret Service code name given to staffer CJ Cregg was “Flamingo.” And while she wasn’t all that happy about it, it made sense — the character was played by statuesque actress Allison Janney. But many are scratching their heads about the current code names being used by GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.