Santorum has tried to portray the race as a two-man contest, between Romney and him, hoping that he can solidify the anti-Romney vote behind him.
"We've won races all over this country against the odds. When they thought, oh, OK, he's finally finished, we keep coming back," Santorum told supporters. "We are in this thing."
Next up: Saturday caucuses in Kansas, the Virgin Islands, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. Wyoming also wraps up its county caucuses Saturday. Romney has support in Wyoming and the U.S. territories, though Kansas could be competitive.
Next Tuesday, the campaign heads south, for primaries in Alabama and Mississippi, where Romney has struggled. There are also caucuses in Hawaii and American Samoa.
"This is a very strange cycle, but none of it adds up to Rick Santorum being the nominee," said Rich Galen, a GOP strategist and former Gingrich aide who is neutral in the 2012 race. "Especially with Gingrich in the race siphoning off 25 percent of the conservative votes. There is no math that gets Santorum to 1,144."
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Associated Press writer Steve Peoples contributed from Steubenville, Ohio.
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