A meeting of politically diverse minds ended without bloodshed at the White House Wednesday with both Capitol Hill Republican leaders and the White House painting positive images of the conversation, though not exactly the end of partisanship as we know it.

"Frankly, it was a very good lunch and I'm encouraged by the attitude and the tone that we had during the meeting," House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) told reporters afterwards.

The White House's take was about the same. "[T]here is reason to hope that the conventional wisdom that holds that Congress held by the opposition party, or largely controlled by the opposition party, cannot get any business done with the President in an election year is wrong," Spokesman Jay Carney said, "and that if folks focus on the areas of agreement and work in a cooperative, bipartisan fashion, we can advance the American people's agenda."

The meeting with top Democrats and Republicans from both houses of Congress spanned foreign and domestic policy, including energy and jobs. Both sides said the president saw some space to work with House Republicans on their jobs proposals, specifically in the area of small business assistance.

"I think the president's support of the JOBS Act was very clear," Boehner told reporters of the package of proposals presented by Republicans. (read more)

Both the Romney and Santorum camps were in full spin mode the day after Michigan's primary election.

Advisers to Santorum called the result a "disaster" for Romney and claimed the state's 30 delegates would be split evenly and that the former Pennsylvania Senator had carried 57 of the state's 83 counties.

Although it was close, Mitt Romney won the popular vote and Michigan GOP officials would not comment on how the state's delegates will be awarded. "We are currently tabulating the final results as based on the new congressional district lines," said Michigan GOP official Matt Frendewy.

While out on the campaign trail, Santorum upped the ante by saying he "won" Michigan. "We won Michigan last night by coming out of Michigan with 15 delegates out of 30 delegates in Mitt Romney's home state, being outspent six to one," said Santorum while speaking to reporters in Tennessee, where voters will head to the polls on Super Tuesday.

Romney advisers meanwhile are still criticizing Santorum for urging Democrats to come out and vote in Michigan. (read more)

Mitt Romney thinks Rick Santorum’s latest robo-call in Michigan against him is "outrageous," "disgusting" and a "new low" for the Santorum campaign, but robo-calls have long been and are frequently used as a political tactic in the days before primary elections.

Shaun Dakin, who created stoppoliticalcalls.org -- a nonpartisan and nonprofit website meant to elevate political discourse starting with the creation of the National Political Do Not Contact Registry, said robo-calls are a "study in chaos" and a cheap way for candidates to get their message across.

"They don’t do them because they work," Dakin said. “They do them because they can.”

Dakin said voters receive an uptick in the number of political robo-calls "the very last days of election" and once the election is over they disappear.

"They are really onerous to the consumer," Dakin said. "The bottom line is everyone has a phone."

Santorum is not the only candidate using robo-calls during this year’s primary elections. (read more)

Dalton, Ga. - There was a new song blaring from the speakers at Newt Gingrich's rally Tuesday morning: Rick Derringer's "Real American," the theme song from Hulk Hogan's iconic World Wrestling Federation days. "I am a real American, fight for what's right, fight for your life!" go the lyrics.

Newt Gingrich is fighting for his political life in his home state of Georgia, where he needs to win 50 percent of the vote on primary day to secure all 76 delegates and catch up in the delegate race. He emphasized to the crowd of over 500 people that he is running on a platform of "really big ideas" in a country with a tradition of visionaries like Abraham Lincoln and his pledge to build a transcontinental rail road and the Wright Brothers who dreamed of human flight.

Gingrich portrayed rival Mitt Romney as a candidate with a small vision. "I was describing the other week some ideas, and Romney said, ‘You know, boy, if somebody came to him with ideas like that he would have fired him," he recounted. "Someone in Chattanooga said to me this morning, he said you know, Romney was the kind of guy who would fire Christopher Columbus," Gingrich said to widespread laughter in the audience. (read more)