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Santorum moves on to Super Tuesday states
Rick Santorum told an Oklahoma radio station Wednesday that this is the state he feels he'll do the best in on Super Tuesday.
"As you know, we're running advertising down there. We're spending resources there," Santorum said on radio station KFAQ in Tulsa. "Oklahoma is the place that we feel the best on Super Tuesday."
Ten states vote on March 6, and a number of them have large voting blocs of evangelical voters — a key Santorum constituency.
But he'll also face strong competition for those voters from Newt Gingrich. A recent poll in Oklahoma by the conservative Rasmussen Polling found Santorum in the lead with 43 percent, Gingrich in second with 22 percent and Mitt Romney in third with 18 percent.
"We feel very confident that we’ll do extremely well there. We’re doing battle" Santorum said the same morning on Fox News.
Romney is in Ohio Wednesday, and Gingrich is in Georgia.
Oklahoma's senators have weighed in on the primary. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has not endorsed and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), previously a Rick Perry backer, has not endorsed again. Inhofe, however, recently said that Santorum is his preferred candidate on the economy, defense and energy.
"In terms of the candidates that are there right now, I’d certainly say Rick Santorum has a better record addressing the four major issues that concern me," Inhofe said earlier in February.
Inhofe also said at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference that he knows the former Pennsylvania senator very well.
"I know his heart," Inhofe said at the conference. "I probably know Rick Santorum better than anyone in this audience."
—This story was updated at 10:46 a.m.
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