You’re right, two days at 16 does mean Gingrich “stabilized” at that point; my bad. In the past 5 days or so Romney has gained 4 points, but Gingrich has gained 3. So they might be splitting the bounty of Santorum’s dive near-evenly.
I thing I was expecting a 17 or 18 for Gingrich today, so it was the disappointment speaking.
We don’t know the mindset of millions of possible Santorum voters in all these places.
Here, they mostly aren’t for Romney.
In some places they aren’t as against Romney as we are.
So some of them could definitely go to Romney.
In Michigan, which is a state, I know, but it is polled for national, too, a lot of people might think there’s reason only to choose between Mitt and Rick S because Newt isn’t much of a factor there and hasn’t campaigned.
Newt stands to benefit if he hangs in and does well, from both Mitt and Santorum supporters who are amenable to having their minds changed.