Gingrich, Santorum Make Final Push in NW Ohio
By: Robert Bumsted
Updated: March 16, 2012
As the campaigns in the Super Tuesday states wrap up, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum made their final pitch to voters in Bowling Green, Ohio.
Both candidates spoke at the annual Lincoln-Reagan Day dinner on the campus of Bowling Green State University.
Speaker Gingrich mainly focused on appealing to the public's frusturations about the high cost of energy. He said President Obama's policies toward the coal industry are hurting jobs in certain parts of Ohio. He also spoke out against the President's vetoing of the Keystone pipleine project.
Santorum made an appeal to constitutional conservatives. He says the Obama administration is pushing for laws that undermine the constitution and civil liberties.
The biggest moment of applause came when Santorum made a comment about the recent federal controceptive mandate and the requirement that insurance pays for contreception.
Santorum took few stabs at his opponents -- a symptom of his current frontrunner status in the state. But that lead is slipping.
A poll taken by Quinnepieac University on Friday shows Santorum and Mitt Romney in a statistical dead heat.
