Favorite Son Santorum Thumps Romney In Pennsylvania, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds.. Ties Obama

Quinnipiac University ^ | 3-14-2012 | Quinnipiac University

[Antoninus]

If Newt backs out, you can guarantee that Team Romney will step it up to a pitch that was mild compared to what they did to Newt. They will then have all the money used to stop Newt, to use against Santorum in a focused attack. And then there is the MSM and Obama machine later.

You sound like you're almost looking forward to it.

And all the personal attacks in the world, won't make it go away either.

For a habitual bomb-thrower, you sure do have a thin skin.

[org.whodat]

Well damn mr shrimp is a yankee, who knew?

[no dems]

What in particular leads you to worry about this? I’m curious.
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I can tell you what bothers me about it (Santorum negotitating for the VP slot). We need Marco Rubio in the VP slot. He can cut into Obozo’s Hispanic vote, big-time, and we need Florida. Whoever wins Florida, wins the White House.

[Antoninus]

But there’s always Pittsburg—the city that specializes in more votes than registered voters.

Pittsburg, Kansas? Or do you mean Pittsburgh? ;-)

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Just go back on countless past threads. You will find volumes of information on Santorum. Just a few, are the “K” street scandal, Union insider dealings, as well as some I won't mention here. (Far too volatile)

Don't worry, you will find out soon enough, that Santorum is far from “squeaky” clean.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

I won't play your childish dart throwing game. Consider yourself ignored from here on out. Have a great day!

[Sun]

“So much for Santorum not being competitive in his own state...”

Yup.

Not surprising since Rick won 4 out of 5 races in PA.

[Vigilanteman]

His squeaky voice didn’t give you a clue until now?

[smoothsailing]

Newt has probably figured out by now that the presidency is out of his reach. If he can negotiate the VP slot on the eventual ticket, that will be the best perch available to him to launch the “movement” you speak of.

[smoothsailing]

But there’s always Pittsburg—the city that specializes in more votes than registered voters.

Pittsburgh could be nuetralized by the fact that Santorum is from the burgh suburb of Penn Hills. Local boy makes good and all that.

Philadelphia, now that's a problem. I'd like to give Philly to Jersey, then PA would be almost Alabama. :)

[Antoninus]

I won't play your childish dart throwing game. Consider yourself ignored from here on out. Have a great day!

I'm destroyed. Really.

[madison10]

So much for Santorum not being competitive in his own state...

That's what I was going to say. Why were posters saying the opposite last week? Obviously it wasn't a given.

[madison10]

I’m neither listening to, or watching any political ads. I’ve had my mind pretty much made up since the start.(although I was wavering briefly toward Gingrich) Even ignored the Cain gossip at the time.

Romney could spend a trillion $, it won’t change my mind toward him.

[Theodore R.]

When Newt first announced, there was nothing but ridicule on this forum about his candidacy, really no support to speak of at all. But somehow he got repeated ad nauseum support after January 2012. Even as he continues to fade, his backers are more determined than ever.

[Theodore R.]

Unless he finds out why Mitch McConnell is “caver in chief,” the truth squad will mean nothing.

[Theodore R.]

Well, LBJ didn’t bat an eye when he accepted Joseph P. Kennedy’s offer in 1960.

[Joe 6-pack]

Yep. Much to my shame, Ron Paul is a fellow Gettysburg College alumnus...

[darrellmaurina]

5 posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:54:15 PM by cotton1706: “Since Obama is not going to get any new states, if Santorum gets Florida and Pennsylvania, it’s all over for Obama. Even if Obama keeps Florida (unlikely), if Santorum gets Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and an industrial state like Wisconsin or Michigan, it’s still all over for Obama. Santorum’s stronger than Romney electorally.”

You are absolutely right. I've been saying something similar for a long time.

Having a Southerner on the ticket or listening carefully to Southern concerns has been important for quite a while to Republicans; we couldn't win without winning the South. At this point, however, the Solid South has changed from “yellow dog Democrats” to become “yellow dog Republicans” — i.e., most of those states will vote for the Republican even if he's a yellow dog — and what Republicans need to worry about is winning traditional “rustbelt” states.

I'm painfully aware that Rick Santorum has cast some problematic votes which made sense to his blue-collar constituents in Pennsylvania but are being perceived by Republican voters elsewhere was being pro-union or anti-business. I'm not saying that Santorum’s votes were good, although as a states-rights advocate who believes elected officials need to do what their constituents want, I can understand those votes even if I don't agree.

What is being lost in the debate is that those votes are the sort of vote that can attract moderate and conservative Democrats in precisely the states Republicans **MUST** win to win the presidency.

The old “Reagan Democrat” coalition worked. “Reagan Democrats” are much less important today nationally than they were in the 1980s, but they are still key to winning certain states such as Pennsylvania, and Santorum is uniquely positioned to win those states.