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Santorum Hammers Obama With Dubious Claim On Healthcare Bill Cost By Matt Pearce March 17, 2012 If you're looking for a possible roadmap for Rick Santorum's campaign in the week ahead, he provided one in his stump speech in Osage Beach, Mo., on Friday. "You know what people are going to be talking about this week and next week?" Santorum asked the crowd of a few hundred on Friday. "Obamacare. Why? Well, the Congressional Budget Office this week just came out with their new numbers. And I know you're gonna be shocked to hear this, but it's twice as expensive...

I went to Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Monday to find out. Out of 1,189,530 votes cast the next day in bellwether Ohio, Mr. Santorum lost to Mitt Romney by only 10,288, at last count. He's doing something right, and what one learned in Cuyahoga Falls, an Akron suburb, is that it doesn't have much to do with the famous Santorum controversies over social issues. It's about ObamaCare. And it's about the idea of freedom. ....Rick Santorum should stay in the race, repeating from now till summer the perverse link between the ObamaCare mandate and the American idea of freedom. It looks...