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Where is all the support for Santorum in the Senate?
By Dana Bash, CNN Senior Congressional Correspondent
updated 9:22 PM EST, Fri February 17, 2012


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Santorum was in the Senate for 12 years. He served in the House for four years before that. Yet only three House members have endorsed him, and he has no endorsements from any sitting senators.
Mitt Romney, who never served in Congress, has racked up 77 congressional endorsements, including 12 senators.
Ask Santorum's former Senate colleagues about his bid for president and many refuse to comment.
"That's not the purpose of the news conference," responded Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, who served with Santorum in the Senate and the House.
At another news conference, Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, simply said he came out early for Romney.
"I think he's in the best position to win the election," Thune said of Romney.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, was one rank below Santorum in the GOP leadership. She declined to step forward to the microphone to talk about Santorum.
When asked by CNN if she could say anything good about him, Hutchison cautiously replied, "Certainly he's a very nice person, but I'm not going to do presidential politics right now."