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Rick Santorum sets sights on Michigan contest with Mitt Romney.

Europe Intelligence Wire

| February 12, 2012 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From Guardian Unlimited)

Rick Santorum has shrugged off Mitt Romney's victories in the Maine caucuses and the straw poll of conservative activists that preceded it, describing the Republican nomination race's frontrunner as "desperate."

Santorum said he could do "exceptionally well" in Michigan, where Romney grew up and where his father served as governor and expects to be in a "two-man race" with him.

The next contests take place in Michigan and Arizona on 28 February.

"We're going to spend a lot of time in Michigan and Arizona, and those are up next. And that's where we've really been focusing on," Santorum told ABC's This Week on Sunday.

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