Colorado GOP Chair tells CNN: Santorum wins

First on CNN: The Colorado GOP chair declares to CNN in an interview that Rick Santorum has won Colorado.

RYAN CALL, GOP CHAIRMAN, COLORADO:  We have got about 98 percent of our precincts reporting tonight.  The Colorado Republican Party is prepared to announce that Rick Santorum has won Colorado’s Republican preference poll, with about 40 percent of the vote.  We’re getting the final numbers in just now.  Rick Santorum has exceeded expectations and wins Colorado’s caucus called vote tonight.

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During CNN’s America’s Choice 2012 Coverage, former Senator Rick Santorum spoke with CNN senior congressional correspondent Dana Bash. A full transcript of the interview will be posted at http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2012.02.08.html  and video is posted at http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/politics/2012/02/08/bash-intv-santorum.cnn.html

RICK SANTORUM (R-PA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE:  Thank you.  It was a good day.  The people had an opportunity to go out there without a lot of the garbage being thrown at them.  Although I will say when I was in Minneapolis today, I got someone here, three mailers from the Romney campaign.  Three negative mailers  —

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