Gingrich has sky-high negatives among women.
Santorum does much better among woman than Newt. Those are the facts.
I much prefer Newt. In fact, for me there is no comparison. Go, Newt!
Gingrich is the conservative, and is one of the most hated conservatives in America, he is the leader that led conservatism between Reagan and Palin, of course the left will keep his negatives high for as long as they can, especially with the help of the GOP-e and Romney.
Santorum, being largely a no one all of his career, does not draw, has not drawn, the attention that a conservative leader does, yet women still don’t like him, and they didn’t when he held office and they kicked him out of it, something that did not happen to Newt.
In a one on one with Obama, Obama easily destroys Santorum in front of the females, he will also lose many males as he is shown as a Milquetoast lawyer type.
Gingrich, in a head to head with Obama can destroy Obama, dismantle him, show his intellectual weakness and shallow grasp of America and history, Gingrich can increase his standing with women when on the same stage as Obama, Santorum cannot.
Polling right now, is different than polling once the candidate becomes the fully backed party leader, we learned this with Reagan, polling is what the moderates always used against him as being too conservative to win in the general.