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Mitt Romney has yet another chance this week to prove he is the inevitable Republican candidate.

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.

The Republican primary process rolls on nearly eleven months after it kicked off in Iowa, and with no definitive end in sight. On Saturday, Missouri began its process of awarding delegates to presidential contenders and the campaigns of Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum each looked to win the more aggressively-contested primary in Puerto Rico on Sunday.

In what has become a weekly ritual, President Obama on Thursday defended his administration’s energy policy, in the face of relentlessly rising gasoline prices, to an American public that believes he can do more to ease the pain at the pump.

The Republican presidential contest next week gives the conservative a shot at seizing the momentum from front-runner Mitt Romney, who leads him there by just 4 points.After a pair of pivotal Southern tests, the Republican presidential race has become a battle between Mitt Romney's grind-it-out delegate arithmetic and Rick Santorum's popular momentum.

President Obama has moved up in the latest polls – or is that down? Depends which poll. This week has seen four new public surveys from highly regarded, nonpartisan polling organizations – two one way, two the other. Two other polls show not much change at all.

President Obama's re-election team is using bad polls to try to raise campaign cash. In a fundraising e-mail sent out last night, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina writes: "If the general election were held today, President Obama would lose to Mitt Romney -- according to the latest poll from Washington Post-ABC News."

Newt Gingrich may not be ready to admit it, but his presidential hopes are all but over and calls will be getting louder for him to step aside.

Rick Santorum has won the Mississippi GOP presidential primary, according to an Associated Press projection, following his earlier triumph in neighboring Alabama on Tuesday.

Rick Santorum seized the lead in the Alabama primary Tuesday night and edged ahead of Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich in Mississippi, deeply conservative Southern crossroads in the struggle for the Republican presidential nomination.