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Rick Santorum scoredhis third win of the night on Super Tuesday by winning the North Dakota caucus. With 52 percent of the votes counted, Santorum led with 40 percent followed by Ron Paul in second with 27 percent. Mitt Romney was running third with 25 percent while Newt Gingrich lagged behind with 8 percent. There are 28 delegates at stake in North Dakota.

Since backing favorite son Calvin Coolidge over John W. Davis in 1924, Massachusetts has gone Republican only four times in presidential elections -- as Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan both carried the state twice.

Mitt Romney, from neighboring Massachusetts, was declared the winner of the Vermont Republican presidential primary on Super Tuesday. There were 17 delegates on the line in the Green Mountain State. Vermont used to be a strong Republican state. It was one of six states that Herbert Hoover carried when he was buried in a landslide by FDR back in 1932. It was one of two -- yes, two -- states that Alf Landon carried in 1936 against FDR. And it produced one of the most conservative American presidents inCalvin Coolidge.

Republican Newt Gingrich was looking to win Georgia -- a state he represented for two decades in Congress -- on Super Tuesday and he won the primary in the Peach State. With 76 delegates on the line, Georgia was the biggest prize up for grabs on Tuesday. The networks called the race for Gingrich, who led the polls in recent weeks, right after the polls closed at 7 p.m. Gingrich has been focusing on the Peach State, taking a bus tour there this past weekend. Mitt Romney placed second followed by Rick Santorum, while Ron Paul trailed in single digits.