In campaign news, the Maine Republican Party has declared Mitt Romney to be the winner of the state’s caucus after he beat Ron Paul by just 194 votes. Paul’s team is claiming it could still win the caucus because one county postponed its caucus due to a snowstorm. Meanwhile, Romney beat Rick Santorum in a straw poll of attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Santorum accused Romney of rigging the vote. Numerous reports have emerged indicating Romney bused college students to the conference and paid the registration fees for supporters. On Friday, Romney addressed CPAC attendees.

Mitt Romney: “I spent 25 years balancing budgets, eliminating waste, and, by the way, keeping as far away from government as humanly possible. I did—I did some of the very things conservatism is designed for. I started new businesses and turned around broken ones. And I’m not ashamed to say that I was successful in doing it.”