With an increased focus on Pennsylvania in the Republican presidential race, Quinnipiac University released a poll looking at the Keystone State that found favorite son Rick Santorum leading there. Santorum takes 36 percent followed by Mitt Romney with 22 percent, Ron Paul with 12 percent and Newt Gingrich lagging in single digits with 8 percent. In a one-on-one match-up, Santorum leads Romney, taking 52 percent with the former Massachusetts governor trailing with 32 percent.

The Republican presidential race turned to Alabama and Mississippi, two states almost assured to rally behind whoever emerges with the GOP nomination in November, and Rick Santorum won Alabama by a small margin over Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.

With 53 percent of the votes counted, Santorum won Alabama, which had 50 delegates on the line, with 35 percent, followed by Gingrich with 30 percent and Romney with 28 percent. Ron Paul trailed with 5 percent.

Businessman Herman Cain, the former Republican presidential candidate who won the Presidency 5 straw poll in Orlando in September, is backing a host of Republicans running for Senate and for the U.S. House all across the nation -- including one congressional hopeful in Florida.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called out President Barack Obamas attack ad which includes quotes from her -- and is calling for the opportunity to debate him on the issues Americans are actually concerned about.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney unveiled hisAgriculture Advisory Committee on Tuesday -- and Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam will serve as the co-chairman of the organization. Putnam endorsed Romney for the Republican presidential nomination back in October.

With 172 delegates on the line, the California Republican presidential primary can still be important despite being held on June 5 -- fairly late in the procession of states that will determine who will take on Barack Obama in November.

After a court fight over redistricting, the Texas Republican presidential primary was moved to May 29. A new Rasmussen Reports poll of likely Texas GOP primary voters released on Tuesday finds a close battle brewing in the Lone Star State with Mitt Romney leading with 32 percent followed by Rick Santorum with 30 percent. Newt Gingrich stands in third with 19 percent while Ron Paul garners 9 percent. Seven percent are undecided and 3 percent back other candidates.

Rick Santorum is battling in the Alabama Republican presidential primary on Tuesday-- and he just got some last-minute support when Gov. Robert Bentley announced on a radio show that he had voted for the former senator from Pennsylvania.

Restaurant executive Craig Miller is running in a crowded -- and competitive -- Republican primary for the new congressional seat stretching on the Atlantic Coast from Ponte Vedra down to Volusia County. Miller announced on Tuesday that he had signed a pledge to repeal the death tax being circulated by the American Family Business Institute.

Through his Reclaim America PAC, Florida Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is starting to engage in politics in the national level as the group made its first national endorsement. The PAC announced on Monday that it is backing Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel for the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, in November.