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Should Rick Santorum get off the campaign trail and go home to his ailing daughter? That’s the question many are posing about the GOP candidate, who has built his campaign on the idea of “faith, family and freedom.” His three-year-old daughter Bella suffers from a genetic disorder known as Trisomy 18, and had a turn for the worse over the weekend when she contracted pneumonia. He says his daughter has had a “miraculous turnaround,” and returned to the campaign trail Monday on the eve of the Florida primary.

President Obama, making his pitch to Floridians in a state where polls show him struggling, characterized the nation's problems this way: “This is a great country that had gotten a little soft, and we didn’t have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades,” Obama told Payne. “We need to get back on track, but I still wouldn’t trade our position with any countries on Earth. We still have the best universities, best scientists and best workers in the world. We still have the most dynamic economic system in the world. So we just need...