All but Conceding NH, Romney's Rivals Look to SC

This primary demonstrates how the media drives elections. There is still an universal attempt by most of the mainstream press to try and have you believe that Rick Santorum is a serious candidate. All the polls show Romney winning easily. He might not lose any State in the primaries. He's ahead or close to Gingrich, who is fading fast. It's all about profits for the media. And they won't cash in if Romney goes unchallenged in the primaries. Of course, it also shows how most of that same press is pro-Obama:

Mitt Romney's rivals are all but conceding defeat in next Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, looking past a weekend debate doubleheader in the Granite State and focusing on South Carolina as their best chance to slow his march to the Republican presidential nomination.

Romney campaigned in both states on Friday, prominent party leaders by his side, President Barack Obama on his mind.

Giving no ground when the government reported the creation of 200,000 new jobs in December, Romney said America deserves better than the economic results Obama has delivered. "Thirty-five consecutive months of unemployment above 8 percent is no cause for celebration," he said in a written statement.

Republican rivals Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich were no more inclined to applaud Obama for the drop in unemployment to its lowest level in nearly three years. But they had other worries, including a new survey that suggested Romney's narrow victory this week in Iowa's caucuses has sent his support soaring in South Carolina.

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