Links, 2-10-12

After Santorum's victories, it's looking more and more likely that these primaries will drag on for a long time.

Michelle Bachmann says that Santorum's victories were a shot across the bow, saying that these elections were the first where voters focused on social issues.

John McCain says low turnout was to blame for Romney's defeats on Tuesday, pointing out that only about 1% of registered voters voted across the three states.  Prior to Tuesday's defeats, Romney had done the best in states with depressed turnout.

This infographic on Congressional wealth has been floating around the internet, so I decided to see if it was accurate.  According to estimates of Congressional net worth posted on the Center for Responsive Politics' website (Members of Congress only have to report their asset in value ranges, so the midpoint of that range is a guesstimate of their true net worth), the median net worth of a member of Congress is just shy of $1 million.  Yes, that means that almost half of all members of Congress (and almost 2/3 of Senators) were likely millionaires according to their 2010 financial disclosures.  The median Senator was worth about $2.5 million and the median House member about $768K.

Gay marriage is once again in the news after it was legalized in Washington (state) and California's ban was overturned in appeals court.  Here's the legal status of gay marriage in all 50 states.

Here's a discussion between liberal columnist Gail Collins and conservative columnist David Brooks on whether Catholic hospitals and schools should be exempt from the requirement that employers must provide health insurance that includes coverage for contraceptives.