Following his sweep of contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri on Tuesday, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has rocketed in the race for the GOP nomination -- and drawn increased fire from his rivals.

The Santorum campaign has accelerated its fundraising pace. Starting on Wednesday, the team behind the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania brought in more than $2.4 million in funds by Friday afternoon.

Santorum is also making a move in the polls.

With their partys presidential primary in the rear view mirror, Florida Republicans are increasingly turning their attention to the contest to see who will challenge Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in November.

Following his defeats in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri on Tuesday, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney looked to establish a citadel in Michigan which holds its primary on Feb. 28.

In a major upset, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, who was largely ignored by the national media, swept three contests on Tuesday, scoring big wins in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri.

Before his dramatic wins on Tuesday, Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, had not won a state since upsetting former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts in the Iowa caucus.

Having condemned the Citizens United decision and having bashed super PACs, President Barack Obama has flipped on the matter as his campaign manager gave a thumbs up to super PACs that will support the Democrat incumbent in the 2012 election.

The stakes are too important to play by two different sets of rules, Jim Messina, Obamas campaign manager, wrote to supporters late on Monday. If we fail to act, we concede this election to a small group of powerful people intent on removing the president at any cost.

While he has primarily focused his fire on Newt Gingrich instead of the other GOP candidates, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is starting to take aim at another target -- Rick Santorum.

Santorum is looking to upend front-runner Romney on Tuesday. The two of them are the only candidates on the ballot in Missouri which holds its primary on Tuesday.

In "The Book of Man," his new book offering readings to help educate boys, William Bennett offers a quick profile on U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., to illustrate two forms of polis -- democratic America and tyrannical communist Cuba.

Floridas leading Republican families are starting to take sides in the primary race to determine who will challenge Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in November -- as scions of the Bush and Rooney dynasties backed different candidates on Friday.

At a media event in Coral Gables on Friday, Republican Senate hopeful Congressman Connie Mack, whose father held the Senate seat that Nelson currently holds, won the endorsement of Jeb Bush Jr.

After his big win in Florida on Tuesday, Republican hopeful Mitt Romney is looking to move beyond the primary and caucus battle to focus his fire on President Barack Obama -- though, of course, there are still three GOP candidates standing in the way of him and the partys nomination.

Romney jabbed Obama on Friday responding to the news that the national unemployment rate dipped from 8.5 percent in December to 8.3 percent in January.