Santorum scares the bejabbers out of the libs, who are elitists to the core, as is Willard Romney. He will get votes that have been unavailable to the GOP candidate since Reagan.
Obama would lose white voters without a college education by titanic proportions that would be impossible for him to overcome in states like Ohio, Michigan and PA.
Obama badly wants to run against Romney who will not be able to get those votes and will likely do worse than McCain
I agree. It has bugged me for some time that the GOP and their candidates basically ignore blue collar workers anymore. They always seem to focus on Big Business issues 100% and just think that these voters will just follow along. At least Rick is addressing issues like manufacturing and traditional values that matter to these voters. From what I can see, his message is resonating opening up a whole new source of votes to the GOP.