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Obama campaign shifts to also target Rick Santorum

Move reflects Santorum’s sudden surge in nationwide opinion polls

By Mark S. Smith

 |  Associated Press  

  February 18, 2012

Campaign officials confirm Obama’s Chicago-based organization has begun combing through the former Pennsylvania senator’s background looking for possible lines of attack.

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