What Does Mitt Romney's Victory Mean to Pinellas?

Mitt Romney is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee after Rick Santorum bowed out of the race Tuesday afternoon, according to a report in The Huffington Post.

For Pinellas County, that could mean a renewed focus on the following four issues:

• National security
• Unemployment
• Health care
• Energy

in a Dunedin campaign stop before the Florida primary in January. (See Romney's 12-minute speech at the rally in the video above.)

Romney went on to win the state primary, with . That was more than double his nearest rival at the time, Newt Gingrich, who got 24 percent of the vote. Santorum came in third in Pinellas County, with 14.85 percent.