Santorum loses one for the little guy

Published February 29, 2012 5:00am ET



There couldn’t be a greater contrast between two campaigns than the Michigan election-eve rallies of Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney.

Santorum’s was held in a gymnasium at Heritage Christian Academy in Kalamazoo.  It began with a prayer from Rev. Paul Davis of Calvary Baptist Church, who asked God to “give us a president who would defend the voiceless and the unborn” and prayed that “if You have found [Santorum] faithful, we pray that You would make him the next president of the United States.”  The bare-bones event featured no fanfare and no music, although at Santorum’s rally earlier in the day, at a hotel in Lansing, the crowd broke into a spontaneous and touching version of “God Bless America.”

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