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Barack Obama - “This is not a game,” said President Obama in response to GOP candidates’ criticisms of how he’s handling a potential nuclear threat from Iran. “The one thing we have not done is we have not launched a war. If some of these folks think we should launch a war, let them say so, and explain to the American people.”(Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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Mitt Romney - “Tonight, we’re doing some counting. We’re counting up the delegates for the convention and it looks good, and we’re counting the days until November and that looks even better,” said Mitt Romney in his Super Tuesday speech.(Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Newt Gingrich - “Tomorrow will bring another chapter in the race for the nomination. But it’s more than a chapter in the race for the nomination. It’s a chapter in a fight for the soul of the Republican Party. It’s a chapter in the fight for the very nature of America. It’s a chapter defining who we are as a people,” said Newt Gingrich during his Super Tuesday remarks.(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Rick Santorum\r - “This was a big night tonight. Lots of states. We’re going to win a few, we’re going to lose a few. But as it looks right now we’re going to get at least a couple of gold medals and a whole passel full of silver medals,” Rick Santorum said in his Super Tuesday remarks.\r(Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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“I am determined to battle on,” said Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who has not yet won a caucus or primary, in a fundraising appeal. (Katherine Jones/Idaho Statesman/MCT) (Photo: Idaho Statesman/MCT/Landov)

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Romney Campaign - “As you can tell all we have to do is keep doing what we’re doing and we can get to the nomination,” a Romney official told reporters this week. “For [Santorum, Gingrich and Paul] it’s going to take some sort of act of God to get to where they need to be on the nomination front.”\r(Photo: Mittromney.com)

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Rick Santorum - "What won't they resort to, to try to bully their way through this race?" said Rick Santorum during a campaign event in Lenexa, Kansas. "If the governor now thinks he's now ordained by God to win, then let's just have it out."(Photo: Julie Denesha/Getty Images)

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Ann Romney - “I don’t even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing. It can be here today and gone tomorrow,” said Ann Romney, wife of the extremely wealthy GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney, in a Fox News interview.(Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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David Axelrod - “Instead of Super Tuesday it became Super Glue-Day for them. They're still stuck with Santorum and with Gingrich and with the prospect of a long race here,” Obama adviser David Axelrod told reporters this week.(Photo: Roger L. Wollenberg-Pool/Getty Images)

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Jon Meecham - The Republican body is just rejecting this organ,” said Time magazine editor Jon Meecham during a discussion on MSNBC’s Morning Joe about GOP voters’ response to Mitt Romney. “It just will not take it.”(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

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Romney Campaign - "As Gov. Romney's opponents attempt to ignore the basic principles of math, the only person's odds of winning they are increasing are President Barack Obama's," read a Mitt Romney campaign memo calling on his rivals to drop out of the race. REUTERS/Brian Snyder    (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)    (Photo: BRIAN SNYDER/Landov)

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Stephen Colbert - Super Tuesday, said comedian Stephen Colbert, is the “Super Bowl of politics, if the Super Bowl was one team slowly destroying itself!”(Photo: Scott Gries/PictureGroup)