Super Tuesday is considered by many to be the defining moment of the primary season, and of the 10 states that hosted contests today, none has seen a battle more grueling than Ohio. There, Rick Santorum fights tooth and claw with Mitt Romney. The former Pennsylvania senator also struggles to maintain an early lead in the bellwether state. On assignment for Newsweek, Charles Ommanney documents Santorum’s drive to cast himself as the blue-collar candidate among Ohio voters—the scrappy underdog who has barnstormed his way from a bare-bones campaign headquarters to the front of the national discussion.
