Ron Paul, Rick Santorum Make Campaign Stops In Colorado On Day Of Florida Primary

Presidential candidates Ron Paul and Rick Santorum are both making campaign stops in Colorado this morning just hours before the Florida precincts close at 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. eastern time.

HuffPost reporter Mark Blumenthal reports that most polls released Sunday and Monday have reported Mitt Romney with a comfortable lead over Gingrich, with Santorum and Paul trailing respectively behind. According to the HuffPost Pollster chart, Santorum and Paul are racing much more closely and are separated by as little as 1.1 percentage points in polls available late Monday.

Paul was scheduled to speak at a 10 a.m. town hall this morning at Colorado State University's Lory Student Center before making a stop at Denver's Renaissance Hotel for a rally at noon. At 2 p.m. Paul is also slated to speak at the Colorado Jet Center in Colorado Springs.

"Dr. Paul's engagement with supporters and undecided voters just a week in advance of the caucus promises to help us achieve a competitive showing," Matthew Holdridge, the campaign's state director told the Denver Post.

Santorum is only scheduled for one stop at the Long Tree Golf Club Lounge in Lone Tree this morning at 10, but is scheduled to make four stops across Colorado Wednesday with another stop at the Colorado School of Mines on Saturday. The Associated Press reports that Santorum will make an evening stop at the Tea Party headquarters and Republicans Uniting Nevada Conservatives in Las Vegas on Tuesday evening. Romney is also scheduled to make a campaign stop in Grand Junction over the weekend.

"The Republican party here is excited to have the various GOP candidates come to Colorado to compete in our caucuses," Colorado's Republican party Chairman Ryan Call said in a statement.

The state's republican party holds its caucuses one week from today, on Feb. 7 for the next battleground.

Comments

[pippie123]

09:02 AM on 02/01/2012

Ron Paul is the ONLY honest one in the bunch !

[sabyne25]

12:22 AM on 02/01/2012

I will never vote for romney or gingrich, neither of them deserve a vote. I voted for paul back when obama was running, and he is the only one i believe deserves to win. He might seem like spitfire but it is only because he knows he is running out of time to open the eyes of americans to what the establishment is really doing. You should never watch the news, it is always skewed to favor the status quo, and paul has never been on the side of the status quo, which over the last decade has slowly stripped us of some of our most basic rights under the guise of protection and terrorism. whoever thinks romney or gingrich should win should be made to sit through a three day lecture of just how much sh** those two have done in the interests of big government and their own pockets. It should trouble you deeply that neither of these individuals has any problem with raising millions of dollars? Think a little.

[bump00000]

03:31 AM on 02/01/2012

You're right about Paul running out of time he's 78 years old.

[pippie123]

09:03 AM on 02/01/2012

Ron Paul is 76 ....

[adam646l]

10:12 PM on 01/31/2012

Hey Newton....looks like it is time for you to take a hot ath and look for a job with the Koch Brothers

[es5200ln]

09:37 PM on 01/31/2012

Being a repub. I am embarassed that Rick is even considered...he is an egotistical, self-centered, controlling man...wanting women to go back 50 yrs. Go Home Rick and take care of all those kids you leave your wife to raise.

[adam646l]

09:35 PM on 01/31/2012

WOW! Hope really does spring eternal

[drscorpion]

09:28 PM on 01/31/2012

Must be nice to go no where for no apparent reason on somebody else's money....even if there's no chance in hell of gaining anything...

Doc

[mikkee1121]

08:25 PM on 01/31/2012

All of you Ron Paulers should charter a bus and return to reality. He's getting 3% of vote in conservative Fla. What part do you not understand?

[Lee Alan Miller]

01:41 AM on 02/01/2012

Florida is rigged anyway....that's how Bush won back a few years was with a BS recount in Florida. Paul is probably really at 13% and they are saying 3.

[mikkee1121]

11:03 AM on 02/01/2012

Denial is not a river in Egypt.

[razaminaz]

07:59 PM on 01/31/2012

Mitt, Newt and Rick are really jokes, Ron Paul has both a domestic and overseas policy's that make sense. Why not listen to him? And don't tell me to go back to the last century I was alive in the 1960 and 1970's and we made changes by sticking together.

[dawntoduskcm]

08:57 PM on 01/31/2012

So was i!f&f!

[adam646l]

09:37 PM on 01/31/2012

I was alive then too. I was very young. But I do seem to remember people getting strung out on acid. This would indeed explain Paul's madness.

[Petra FujiiEnochs]

07:37 PM on 01/31/2012

Ron Paul all the way to the white House! He can do, but he needs our help! We are the people, and we can put him in office. Get out and vote and tell everyone that he is our best hope to change the world now! I dopn't think we can wait anbother 4 years, by then everything will have collapsed. We have to take the bull (Government, Fed, Military Industrial complex) by the horns!

[dawntoduskcm]

09:00 PM on 01/31/2012

I agree its what needs to happen!

[Razpooten]

09:08 PM on 01/31/2012

Ain't gonna happen.

[neuticles]

07:21 PM on 01/31/2012

all of that wasted time, effort and money- they will all end
up losing in the end.

[4RONPAUL2012]

07:17 PM on 01/31/2012

You're right; and I'm glad to see you would vote for Ron Paul. Dr. Paul is the only candidate who will cut spending by a trillion dollars his first year in office. Romney is a democrat in republican's clothing. Obama care is based on Romney care. The government has no business paying for medical care for US citizens, it's unconstitutional! Ron Paul is the only true conservative! The other three candidates are big government politicians. We need a President to work within the confines of the Constitution! Ron Paul is what this country needs, not more of the status quo.

[dawntoduskcm]

07:21 PM on 01/31/2012

AGREED!

[AmericaProudSouthernbred]

10:38 PM on 01/31/2012

you know some people is trying to tell me that it might come down to it that I will have to hold my nose &jump in and vote for the partys sake, well i honestly can't do that because my vote will be for the sake of GOd, FAMILY & COUNTRY . this is the same attitude that our founding forefathers had and i must vote & support the one who is the right one for america and that is Ron Paul 2012!!!!!!!!!!

[pippie123]

09:12 AM on 02/01/2012

Which ever "front runner" wins ( if it's not Ron Paul) they will not be able to win the White House ...Without the Help of Ron Paul ...Ron has all those Blue Rep, Dems, and independant & young votes...can't win without those...so we will see everyone in the White House one way or another. Ron paul will play a major role on that National platform... THANK GOD !

[fromperdink]

06:48 PM on 01/31/2012

In the Primary process, this voter will vote for Anybody But Romney. Why? As a result of the early tactics employed by Romney & his PAC, Romney has totally disrespected voters. How? Instead of spending campaign funds & time outlining a vision for Conservatives to evaluate, he chose to use the same kind of tactics which Obama will use - A campaign of personal destruction of his opposition. (Mr. Romney, your defense, that you were only doing what you had to do to defend yourself is dishonest. You started this tactic in IA) Instead of proving Presidential Leadership, w/ ability to be a Uniter under his vision, Romney proved he can only win being a Divider - Another tactic, like Obama's, to which I have great revulsion. Finally, change is not possible if The Establishment is heavily involved, & clearly the Current Establishment is entrenched w/ Romney's campaign. Romney, was in my top 2 early on. Now he's fallen to the Bottom of My List. Unless there is drastic change; should the only candidate left opposing Romney be Ron Paul, when Primary season gets to my state, I will vote for Paul. Santorum remains my Top Pick, w/ a slight edge over Gingrich. However, it's apparent to me that unless Santorum & Gingrich form some kind of alliance, it will be very difficult to push back on Romney's deep pockets. I urge S & G to come up w/ a smart alliance, Very Soon. I urge Conservatives as well.

[mikkee1121]

08:19 PM on 01/31/2012

Vision and Conservatives do not belong in the same sentence. Sorry!

[fromperdink]

08:24 PM on 01/31/2012

Reality to Liberals articulates your statement. Sorry!

[adam646l]

09:40 PM on 01/31/2012

R0Flm Fao

[fromperdink]

09:48 PM on 01/31/2012

How about a hint?

[Cream Rises to the top]

06:38 PM on 01/31/2012

I think Rick Santorum would be a grat VP candidate.

[Razpooten]

09:08 PM on 01/31/2012

In which country?

[adam646l]

09:41 PM on 01/31/2012

In a land fa,r far and far away

[es5200ln]

09:39 PM on 01/31/2012

OMG you have got to be kidding...

[rankinkrl]

06:36 PM on 01/31/2012

Rick's numbers tonight in Fla. may surprise a lot of people.

[Razpooten]

09:09 PM on 01/31/2012

Surprise or disappoint?

[Pierre99]

06:25 PM on 01/31/2012

"Times have been bad and sad, and The One (Obama) did not turn out to be a messiah, just a mortal politician who ruefully jokes that his talent is hitting the “sweet spot” where he makes no one happy, neither allies nor opponents. The man who became famous with a speech declaring that we were one America, not opposing teams of red and blue states, presides over an America more riven by blue and red than ever. The man who came to Washington on a wave of euphoria has had a presidency with all the joy of a root canal, dragged down by W.’s recklessness and his own inability to read America’s panic and its thirst for a strong leader." --from liberal Maureen Dowd's article "Showtime at the Apollo" in the New York Times/ 1/21/12.

[razaminaz]

08:02 PM on 01/31/2012

I would say Obama has failed, but the only miserable people are the voters. Obama, his family and entorage have run up quite a bill on the United States and he has spent less time in DC during his first term than anyone I believe.

[Razpooten]

09:10 PM on 01/31/2012

Old and tired hot air...baseless.

[adam646l]

09:44 PM on 01/31/2012

Reagen was gone from the White house so often, it was said that" he forgot what color it was". Get your facts straight. WE ARE NOT FALLING for fox and limbauh "facts".

[lorrie2048]

08:43 PM on 01/31/2012

Grant Park 2012

[Pierre99]

07:10 AM on 02/01/2012

Wasn't it great seeing the protested arrested and carried out by the police? The Occup movement is dead, and only now consists of a bunch of malcontents bent on violence. Typical of the left.