Craft stores we are live-blogging the results from GOP presidential contests in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado.

Rick Santorum is battling with Mitt Romney in Minnesota and Missouri, while Romney is looking to Colorado for his fourth win in a GOP primary or caucus. Scroll down for updates.

8:23 p.m. ET

Some very early returns from Missouri show Romney leading Santorum. A reminder  that this is a GOP "beauty contest," since it's not part of any delegate selection process. The Show Me state's national convention delegates will be chosen at district conventions in April and a state convention in June.

8:20 p.m. ET

Romney is slated to give a major economic address at the home stadium of football's Detroit Lions, ahead of the Michigan primary on Feb. 24.

The Associated Press says the former Massachusetts governor's address to the Detroit Economic Club quickly sold out at a local hotel, so the speech was moved to Ford Field.

Romney was born in Michigan, and his father was governor of the state and ran American Motors.

Updated 8:01 p.m. ET

Newt Gingrich tells CNN that tonight's results will show the "elite media" can no longer consider Mitt Romney the "inevitable" GOP presidential nominee.

Gingrich says he is looking forward to the Super Tuesday contests on March 6 to build support for his campaign.

Rick Santorum is poised to win in Minnesota and Missouri, two of the three states that vote tonight. Romney is expected to do well in Colorado.

Gingrich repeated his vow to stay in the race through the Republican National Convention in Tampa. He said it's not "harmful" to have a contested GOP primary.

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Can Rick Santorum win two states in the first night of multistate contests in the GOP presidential race?

We'll be live blogging results from the GOP caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado and Missouri's primary. No delegates will be awarded tonight, so it's all about bragging rights and momentum for the four-man Republican field.

USA TODAY's Susan Page and Jackie Kucinich will have more in Wednesday's editions.

Polls show Santorum, who won the Iowa caucuses, with leads over GOP front-runner Mitt Romney in Minnesota and Missouri. The former Pennsylvania senator asked Missouri supporters to help him "reset" the race.

Romney is looking to Colorado for his fourth win this year in the race for the Republican nomination. His campaign is playing down its expectations, in a memo that emphasizes the former Massachusetts governor's long-term plans.

"Of course, there is no way to win first place in every single race," Romney's political director Rich Beeson wrote in the campaign memo.

Craft stores the Colorado outcome could be the most important, since the state is one of about a dozen swing states where the general election with President Obama will be fought the hardest.

Newt Gingrich has been spending the day campaigning in Ohio, which votes on March 6 as part of the Super Tuesday contests. Ron Paul is looking ahead to a straw poll Saturday in Maine.