Rick Santorum
Summary
Richard John "Rick" Santorum (born May 10, 1958) is a former United States Senator from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Santorum is a member of the Republican Party and was the chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, the number-three job in the party leadership of the Senate.Santorum is considered a social and fiscal conservative. He is particularly known for his stances on the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Social Security, intelligent design, homosexuality, and the Terri Schiavo case. Santorum was defeated 59% to 41% in the 2006 U.S. Senate election by Democratic candidate Bob Casey, Jr. This was the largest margin of defeat for an incumbent Senator since 1980.In March 2007, Santorum joined the law firm Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC.
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The Washington Times takes a giant step--backwards
Since their recent electoral drubbing, many Republicans are rethinking their party's relationship (or lack of one) to blacks and Hispanics, and embracing what Rick Santorum calls "a broader, bolder and more inclusive vision of freedom and opportunity. " One sign of this is the sea change on immigration policy. Just days ago, four prominent Republican senators, including heavyweights.
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How a 19-year-old student became one of the hottest political photographers in the country
If you’ve spent much time scouring the Internet for news about the Republican presidential campaign, you’ve probably run across the work of Gage Skidmore.
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Romney’s welfare gambit
Mitt Romney has finally figured out what to do with his vanquished rivals Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. They will be his senior advisers on race relations.
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Watching the US Presidential election online
With the GOP candidate firmly in place, the US Presidential election is beginning to hot up, especially in the digital and social media space.
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Journal Critique of Romney Shows Murdoch Doubt on Candidacy
A stern editorial in the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch’s flagship paper, was the latest reminder of Mitt Romney’s failure to win the trust of his party’s core conservatives.
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4thEstate.net analyzes election stories to improve quality of journalism
A new site, 4thEstate. net, is tracking media coverage of the 2012 election in hopes of making journalists more aware of the gaps in their reporting.
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Romney's saccharine side peeks out in new ad envisioning a Mitt presidency
In his first official ad of the presidential election campaign, the presumptive Republican candidate seeks to remould his image.
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For TV, campaigns create big winners, (relative) losers
When Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum suspended his presidential campaign last month, the former Pennsylvania senator all but sealed Mitt Romney’s easy victory in the state’s April 24 primary. Santorum also dashed the expectations of his home state’s broadcasters, who were counting on the candidate to keep the race competitive and their ad inventory—much of which had already been reserved.
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New Yorker covers we were never meant to see
New Yorker magazine art editor shares covers “you were never meant to see” and the stories behind them, including a drawing of presidential hopeful Rick Santorum overtaking Mitt Romney in the primaries, which didn’t happen (The New Yorker).
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PEJ: Political coverage started to break Romney’s way in March
Project for Excellence in Journalism Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism studied coverage of the presidential race from Jan. 2-April 15. Among the findings:.
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