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Ballot Issues for Rick Santorum?

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    Will GOP candidate be on all state ballots?

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Gender Rick Santorum narrowly lost a Mitt Romney in Iowa and as Karl just mentioned is -- both -- attention and fundraising but there are questions.

Tonight about other elections.

He may or may not competing again.

Tonight chief congressional correspondent Mike Emanuel has that story.

-- former senator Rick Santorum campaigns in New Hampshire ahead of next week's primary his staff is facing deadlines to make sure his name appears on state ballots.

Santorum missed the deadline in the District of Columbia and along with other candidates did not meet Virginia's requirements.

Illinois deadline is by the end of business tomorrow I -- to a dime to a dollar that he doesn't have the organization place.

They -- it virtually any delegates qualified for the Illinois ballot this Santorum campaign says it does not think Illinois will be a problem yet there are deadlines approaching in Vermont on Monday and Mississippi the following Saturday.

That suggests to row of the time is running out for santorum's team even if he does well in New Hampshire and has a real contender.

By the time he gets to South Carolina -- -- there for five states big states.

Potentially that he is not on the ballot on -- can't win delegates out of meanwhile on the campaign trail one on to many Americans as a social conservative.

Santorum spending a lot of his time on the stump talking about fixing the ailing economy one pitch he's making is cutting the corporate income tax from 35% to seventeen and a half percent for most companies.

And to zero for manufacturers.

We give manufacturers the opportunity compete we have manufacturing jobs that pay on average 20000 dollars more than average the the average job in America.

We -- opportunity for those who have been left behind a.

I -- last may also play well -- voters frustrated by lingering high unemployment in the manufacturing sector.

It's been hit hard in key battleground states like New Hampshire and Ohio and in Pennsylvania.

-- someone like senator Santorum who columns from Pennsylvania he is a first hand knowledge about.

How to help blue collar workers who are suffering those states.

Another aspect of santorum's pitches his family narrative as the grandson of -- Pennsylvania coal miner.

In the impact that example -- in his life.

My grandfather is a very.

Store and tough guy.

I mean he was tough when you work in the minds till your 72 we had a school Leo says it is back -- -- was sort hunched over and this just a big strong man.

-- after serving sixteen years in congress Santorum has a record and has been criticized for being a protectionist of Pennsylvania steel industry.

That along with using earmarks to help his home state is why some prefer to call him big government conservative -- Might --

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