Rick Santorum won both the Alabama and Mississippi Republican primaries on Tuesday, while Mitt Romney won the caucuses in Hawaii and American Samoa. Gingrich finished stronger than expected, but now faces calls from the Santorum campaign to end his bid for the presidency. Delegate front-runner Mitt Romney continued his streak of Southern losses, finishing third in both Alabama and Mississippi.
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