The road to the Florida primary #2012Unfiltered

Our reporters fanned the Sunshine state with the GOP candidates and captured scenes from the campaign trail with the iPhone app Instagram and the hashtag #2012Unfiltered.

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Satellite trucks line up outside Mitt Romney's headquarters on primary day.

Dan Balz / The Washignton Post via Instagram

The press waits for Mitt Romney after an event in Tampa on primary day.

Philip Rucker / The Washington Post via Instagram

Students at the University of Florida campaign on primary day.

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Romney closes his Florida campaign with a big crowd in The Villages on Monday.

Philip Rucker / The Washington Post via Instagram

Dan Balz: "This is what it looks like when a power-starved Romney press bus hits the ground."

Dan Balz / The Washington Post via Instagram

Amy Gardner tweeted on Jan. 30: "The iconography of a Newt rally, Tampa"

Amy Gardner / The Washington Post via Instagram

Mitt Romney's bus arrives at the Jacksonville tarmac on Jan. 30.

Philip Rucker / The Washington Post via Instagram

"An unusually large crowd in Naples for Romney. This is only back half of crowd," Philip Rucker tweeted on Jan. 29.

Philip Rucker / The Washington Post via Instagram

Newt Gingrich speaks at the first of three Lincoln Day Dinners in Florida on Jan. 28.

Amy Gardner / The Washington Post via Instagram

"Mitt Romney and John McCain are wheels down in Pensacola," Rucker tweeted on Jan. 27.

Philip Rucker / The Washington Post via Instagram

Mitt Romney, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) and actor Jon Voight attended an event at the Fish House in Pensacola, Fla., on Jan. 28.

Philip Rucker / The Washington Post via Instagram

The marshy scenery between Pensacola and Panama City Beach as the Romney press bus rolls past.

Philip Rucker / The Washington Post via Instagram

Mitt Romney presents a birthday cake to reporter Maeve Reston of the Los Angeles Times on her birthday. Rucker tweeted: "Mitt Romney, full of surprises, brings a birthday cake to @MaeveReston en route to Clearwater."

Philip Rucker / The Washington Post via Instagram

Amy Gardner tweeted: "Chris Moody of Yahoo News rocks it on the Gingrich press bus."

Amy Gardner / The Washington Post via Instagram

Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond confronts Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.), a Romney surrogate, at a Gingrich rally in Port St. Lucie.

Amy Gardner / The Washington Post via Instagram

Amy Gardner tweeted: "PETA has its say at a Newt Gingrich . . . [event] in Orlando."

Amy Gardner / The Washington Post via Instagram

Michael Golan, a middle school student, got Mitt Romney to sign his permission slip for missing class before the CNN Debate on Jan. 26.

Adam Kaloha Causey / Used with permission by The Washington Post via Instagram

Gardner tweeted, "Huge tea party crowd for Newt in Mount Dora" on the day of the CNN Debate in Jacksonville.

Amy Gardner / The Washington Post via Instagram

"This afternoon's @MittRomney backdrop: a space ship. Or something space ship-y," Philip Rucker tweeted on Jan. 27.

Philip Rucker / The Washington Post via Instagram

Dan Balz spotted this endorsement outside a Tampa rally.

Dan Balz / The Washington Post via Instagram

A flag in the Florida sunshine outside a Newt Gingrich rally in Tampa on Jan. 22.

Dan Balz / The Washington Post via Instagram

Philip Rucker arrived in Daytona Beach, Fla., the day after the South Carolina primary, and the Romney bus was already there.

Philip Rucker / The Washington Post via Instagram

"In Tampa, @MittRomney takes notes as he hears tales of housing woe" at a a roundtable on his first day campaigning in Florida.

Philip Rucker / The Washington Post via Instagram

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