Road to the Minnesota Caucuses

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Updated: 2/06 6:50 pm

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It's almost time for voters to head out and caucus once again.
Tuesday night people will help narrow down the field of GOP hopefuls.
They spent the weekend all over Minnesota and some made their way to the southern part of the state on Monday.
Rick Santorum campaigned in Rochester before heading on to Colorado.
He's hoping the gopher state can give him an edge over the other candidates.
Republican presidential candidates are gearing up for Tuesday's caucuses in Minnesota.
With two big wins behind him, Mitt Romney is heading into the state with steam, but his rivals are hoping to play a little catch up.
Newt Gingrich says, “I really believe it is a great disservice to the American people to not have this as a conversation about really big solutions and really big ideas."
Ron Paul says, “I get energized because I know there's a large number of people who are looking for another option."
Rick Santorum says, “I think we're going to show improvement. This race is a long, long way from being over."
From the looks of things right now, it could be a close race.
Polls show three of the candidates are basically in a tie.
Political analyst John Schmaltz says, "It’s all within a margin of error. Right now according to public policy polling they have Santorum up by two points over Romney and then Gingrich close behind."
A win by Santorum or Gingrich could stifle Romney's momentum going into future states.
Something they could use to say Romney doesn't have what it takes to win the nomination.
But he does have a few other elements of a winning campaign on his side.
Schmaltz says, "Romney has a better organization and has more money than the other candidates and those are two pretty critically important factors in getting a party's nomination."
But with only 10 percent of the delegates sent to convention spoken for, there's still room for one of the underdogs to make a comeback.
President Obama is fighting back on many of the criticisms republicans have been throwing at him.
He talked before the Super Bowl, touting the recent decrease in unemployment numbers and the 3.7 million jobs created in the last 23 months.
But GOPers, especially Romney are not going to let the Obama or the American people forget, the president himself said he would be a one term president if he couldn't get unemployment under eight percent.
Colorado will also hold their caucuses on Tuesday.
Romney won that state back in 2008.

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