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Voters Back Away From Santorum In Ohio
TRIB Live News ^ | Tuesday, March 6, 2012 | Salena Zito,

Posted on 03/06/2012 1:59:32 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP

In the days leading to Super Tuesday contests, Rick Santorum stepped away from social issues and bombastic speeches while barnstorming Ohio to recast himself as the underdog whose blue-collar roots would stay true to American values.

Yet the former senator from Pennsylvania lost ground, slipping to a near dead heat with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in Ohio, the key state among 10 in which voters will cast ballots today, pollsters said.

"I thought his message has become so unclear on who he is or what he stands for that I am losing confidence on his ability to win the election in November," Dana Kasel, 43, of Perrysburg, Ohio, a Czechoslovakia native who became a U.S. citizen, said of Santorum. "It was his talk about how his grandfather realized the American dream that attracted me."

In a weekend poll of 753 likely GOP primary voters, Romney pulled ahead of Santorum, 34 percent to 31 percent -- a 10-point shift in one week, said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. The survey's 3.6-percentage-point margin of error "makes the Ohio race too close to call, but Romney is the one with the wind at his back," Brown said. (Snip)

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections2012; oh2012
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To: trappedincanuckistan
It is what it is good person, what we need to do now, is remain positive and think ahead. If Newt wins Georgia tonight, wins good delegates in Ohio and elsewhere, the momentum he wins along with it, may turn it around.

Santorum can and will drop off just as fast as he so undeservedly came on in the first place.

Let’ have faith and fortitude from here on. It's how we win!

101 posted on 03/06/2012 3:16:54 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Oh make no mistake. Newt’s not going anywhere. He’ll get a substantial number of delegates tonight and next Tuesday. If Santorum would have collapsed sooner instead of dragging out what everyone knew was inevitable weeks ago....


102 posted on 03/06/2012 3:23:09 PM PST by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: onyx

Just voted Newt in Akron Ohio!!! And Josh Mandel!
I wonder if my next trip to the polls will be as enjoyable?


103 posted on 03/06/2012 3:24:16 PM PST by americas.best.days...
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To: Steelfish
Dude, and I do mean Dude! Lighten up. You are not winning many FRiends for you and your candidate. Present your case with respect and refrain from personal attacks.

We point out things about your candidate which are all true, you resort to personal attacks thinking you are defending your candidate. You can't win like that.

104 posted on 03/06/2012 3:24:59 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity.

Your boy Romney may pull off a win yet. Keeping doing everything you can Troll.


105 posted on 03/06/2012 3:27:12 PM PST by GulfBreeze (Still a Santorum guy !)
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To: trappedincanuckistan

[Oh make no mistake. Newt’s not going anywhere.]

Don’t be so sure. Remember how 2008 unfolded. McCain lost the first quarter and won it later. Never say never.


106 posted on 03/06/2012 3:27:55 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: americas.best.days...

WOO HOO! GO NEWT! Every delegate counts.


107 posted on 03/06/2012 3:28:55 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: Steelfish

I want Americans to dominate and colonize space, and for gasoline prices to come down, why don’t you?

Those two things seem to stick in your craw because you post against them over and over and over.


108 posted on 03/06/2012 3:29:17 PM PST by ansel12 (Santorum-Catholic and "I was basically pro-choice all my life, until I ran for Congress" he said))
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

No personal attacks, just some humor. Actually, I liked your Gingrich pic. It’s you who have been spamming threads with anti-Santorum diatribes and being every ready to post anti-Santorum leftwing stuff and then you think we’d go quietly into the night.


109 posted on 03/06/2012 3:29:36 PM PST by Steelfish (ui)
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To: skeeter; PSYCHO-FREEP

Of course he does. Psycho is Romney’s biggest supporter here on FR.


110 posted on 03/06/2012 3:30:32 PM PST by GulfBreeze (Still a Santorum guy !)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

I meant there is no chance Newt’s getting out. He’s taking it to Tampa!


111 posted on 03/06/2012 3:30:58 PM PST by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: ansel12

Of course, there are a lot of things we all want. But $Ts in budget deficit, $15T in debt, and an unstable global energy market don’t make for rosy pie-in-the-sky scenarios.


112 posted on 03/06/2012 3:33:09 PM PST by Steelfish (ui)
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To: GulfBreeze

Prove it! Better get started........going to take you a long time.......like years, and even then you won’t find one thing I have ever said in support of Romney..

Go now, get after it!..........


113 posted on 03/06/2012 3:33:12 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: trappedincanuckistan

Right on!.......


114 posted on 03/06/2012 3:35:02 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: Daveinyork

Newt has been feverishly on message the last 2 weeks, especially the economy and it is paying off. Let’s hope it will stick and get him elected.


115 posted on 03/06/2012 3:41:24 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: SgtHooper
This reminds me of a NASCAR race, like the leaders are busy fighting for first, ruining each others momentum by fighting for the lead, banging into each other etc.

While the smart dude in the strong car, stays close behind, then runs to the front while the leaders are still banging into each other and spinning off the track. That's when the old veteran who hung back makes his move off of their draft, and wins......

116 posted on 03/06/2012 3:46:22 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Quit supporting Romney! Oops....you didn’t mention Romney :)


118 posted on 03/06/2012 3:46:43 PM PST by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: trappedincanuckistan

OOPs! you’re right! Playground bullies looking for a fight! Not gonna get it!...........


119 posted on 03/06/2012 3:49:41 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Newt!


120 posted on 03/06/2012 3:49:56 PM PST by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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