March 10, 2012 07:23 PM UTC

Kansas Slurps Up Santorum

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• by: Colorado Pols

CNN reports from the fertile soils of our neighboring Sunflower State:

Romney and Gingrich have essentially ceded the Kansas race to Santorum, abandoning plans to campaign in the state ahead of the contest and instead focusing on Tuesday primaries in Mississippi and Alabama.

“We chased all the candidates out of Kansas!” the former Pennsylvania senator said at a Wichita rally Friday evening, according to news reports…

Kansas is home to many social conservatives that ideologically mesh with Santorum’s anti-abortion, anti-same-sex marriage, pro-family, pro-religious freedom stances. Those positions helped Santorum barrel to primary victory in the neighboring states of Oklahoma in last week’s Super Tuesday contests, and in Missouri on February 7.

And let’s not forget Rick Santorum’s Colorado caucus win on the same day! Today’s Kansas win demonstrates another important property of Santorum, a tendency to flow downhill.

Our metaphor mixture may be getting a little frothy now.