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Is Rick Santorum losing his core audience?
Hot Air ^ | April 26, 2015 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 04/26/2015 9:01:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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I think Huckabee will have similar problems.
1 posted on 04/26/2015 9:01:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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What was Santorum’s message this week?

raising the minimum wage I think


2 posted on 04/26/2015 9:02:22 PM PDT by GeronL (Clearly Cruz 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ted Cruz seems to have sidelined Rick.


3 posted on 04/26/2015 9:02:55 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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Rick Santorum would make a great VP for Ted. He would be highly motivating to disaffected evangelical voters and he could help deliver Pennsylvania which is a very important electoral state.


4 posted on 04/26/2015 9:08:23 PM PDT by Menthops (If you are reading this..... the GOPe hates you!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Santorum had his chance in 2012 and put in a decent showing. He should avoid the embarassment and follow Romney’s lead not to run this time around. He isn’t going anywhere and it’s very foolish of him not to be able to see the difference between his role in 2012 (some) and his upcoming role in 2016 (none).


5 posted on 04/26/2015 9:09:32 PM PDT by samtheman ( BushClinton. The Yesterday Candidate.)
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he never had a core audience. he had 15 minutes of fame because in 2012 we flirted with every candidate because we desperately searched for someone to vote for instead of mittens.

this guy couldn't beat the mildly retarded son of a former governor to keep his senate seat.

6 posted on 04/26/2015 9:11:42 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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Santorum is a nobody.

As far as winning Pennsylvania, that is the state that kicked him out of his Senate seat by a HUMILIATING 17.4% defeat, and in the 2012 primary, “”Rick Santorum suspended his campaign in April after polls showed a strong possibility that he would lose his home state of Pennsylvania to Mitt Romney””.


7 posted on 04/26/2015 9:16:46 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: Menthops

Ted is already motivating evangelicals, the last thing he needs is a running mate out there talking about raising the minimum wage and stuff


8 posted on 04/26/2015 9:17:41 PM PDT by GeronL (Clearly Cruz 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Santorum lost by over 700,000 votes the last time he ran for the senate in PA.

Seems he had a lot of early success but that was it. I hope his supporters will turn their support to Cruz.


9 posted on 04/26/2015 9:22:03 PM PDT by boycott
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What, his mother and her friend bailed on him?


10 posted on 04/26/2015 9:23:31 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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Santorum is a big government fiscal liberal and a social conservative. We have much better candidates this time.


11 posted on 04/26/2015 9:23:36 PM PDT by entropy12 (Prediction: Walker will win Iowa primary, NH is wide open, SC looking good for Cruz)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Santorum jumped the shark when he endorsed Boris Baddinof (Arlen Specter).


12 posted on 04/26/2015 9:24:58 PM PDT by Ronin (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
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Is Rick Santorum losing his core audience?

Arlen Specter is dead.

13 posted on 04/26/2015 9:30:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: entropy12

definitely


14 posted on 04/26/2015 9:39:25 PM PDT by GeronL (Clearly Cruz 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In the last election Santorum started losing badly when he referred to Romney as a “vulture” capitalist. That attitude is completely anti-conservative.

As said above he’s a social conservative, fiscal socialist.

Not at all a Reagan Republican.


15 posted on 04/26/2015 9:39:51 PM PDT by budj (beam me up, scotty...)
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Dear God!

Just...bleghck.


16 posted on 04/26/2015 9:42:06 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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“Is Rick Santorum losing his core audience”

I doubt that he has one...


17 posted on 04/26/2015 9:45:16 PM PDT by babygene
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I agree. I don’t see Huckabee getting anywhere, if he does decide to run. Guys like Huck and Santorum need to understand it’s not 2008 or 2012 anymore. We have the best field of conservative candidates I’ve seen in my lifetime, and it’s going to be one of those young guns that gets the nomination in the end.


18 posted on 04/26/2015 9:47:00 PM PDT by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NotforJeb. Just so we're clear.)
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Well said!


19 posted on 04/26/2015 10:02:31 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Hitlery Rotten Clinton should be in a federal prison, NOT in the Oval Office.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Santorum’s 15-minutes is well past expired. Love the wishful conclusion from 2012: “Santorum seemed to have cemented a place as a serious contender in national GOP politics”. What a joke!


20 posted on 04/26/2015 10:22:41 PM PDT by Reno89519 (For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one. Muslim = Nazi = Evil)
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