You mean just like the first Republican President?????
Posted on 02/10/2012 9:57:42 AM PST by Steelfish
Fox News Poll: Santorum Surges Nationally After Three-State Sweep By Dana Blanton February 10, 2012
Rick Santorum has surged nationally in the race for the 2012 Republican nomination after his three-state sweep this week, while Mitt Romney has lost ground among GOP primary voters. In addition, most GOP voters say the nomination race isn’t over -- someone other than Romney could still win. That’s according to a Fox News poll released Friday.
The new poll was conducted over four nights this week -- Monday through Thursday -- so it provides a unique opportunity to compare Santorum’s support before and after his wins in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri. And the results are striking.
Click here to view full Fox News poll results.
In interviews conducted on Monday and Tuesday nights -- immediately before the news of his victories -- Santorum received the backing of 17 percent of GOP primary voters. That was well behind Romney (35 percent) and Newt Gingrich (26 percent), and slightly ahead of Ron Paul (14 percent).
In interviews conducted on Wednesday and Thursday nights -- after his wins -- Santorum’s support nearly doubled, which put him tied at the top with Romney for those two days at 30 percent. That’s an increase of 13 percentage points. Over the last two nights, Romney also received 30 percent, a drop of 5 points. Gingrich came in at 16 percent, down 10 points. Paul’s support held steady at 15 percent.
Looking at the results from all four nights of this week’s interviewing, Romney retains his frontrunner spot with 33 percent, followed by Santorum at 23 percent, Gingrich at 22 percent and Paul at 15 percent.
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Well this news will cause some heads to explode...
So we are staking our hopes on a guy that couldn’t win his own seat in his own state?
Just a little bit more, a win in Arizona or God willing, Michigan, and we can truly call him the GOP FRONTRUNNER. As it is, Santorum is the Conservative Frontrunner in my estimate.
yes
I just contributed. COME ON FREEPERS. THIS IS A GOOD THING!!!
Yep. Just like we Republicans did 150 years ago with Abe Lincoln, who failed numerous times before winning. Yes.
Looks hopeless for Gingrich. Santorum will win nomination.
After SC, I told my wife that Santorum would never win.
I had to apologize.
If this poll was Monday-Thursday and most people weren’t aware of the Santorum Sweep until Tuesday night, expect an even greater surge in polls that are completely post-sweep.
Now that Santorum has the “mo”, it’s up to him to figure out how to sustain it.
It may also help Santorum that the Texas primary appears to be postponed until later in the spring or early summer over redistricting battles. It would likely had been a Gingrich win had it gone off the first week of April as planned but now that huge chunk of delegates is really up for grabs.
I would like to see a contest between Santorum and Gingrich.
That was then, this is now. He ran against a candidate who was pro-gun, pro-life, and during a time of anti-Bush sentiment and the son of a former Pa Governor with a cascade of out-of-state cash from NARAL and EMILY’s LIST
Whose electoral record do you think is better? Romney's, who lost a Senate bid and ducked a challenging reelection race? Gingrich & Paul's, who sat in a safe congressional districts and never won statewide?
Most of us realized a long time ago that this presidential field was far from perfect.
Gingrich needs to make a graceful exit. This is our last hope for a true conservative candidate that now appears to have the backing of both Rush and Mark Levin.
This Is Rick Santorum
Posted By Jazz Shaw On February 10, 2012 @ 12:00 am In Elections 2012,Health Care,Politics,Religion,US News | 78 Comments
Up until this week we had been faced with a few different possibilities in terms of potential challengers to President Obama in November, none of which seemed overly pleasing to clucking tongues in conservative sewing circles. It always had the appearance of a choice between Mitt “Mr. Inevitable” Romney and any one of a series of cracked, flawed, or otherwise questionable alternatives. Even the latest in this series, Newt Two Point Oh, brought with him worries as to whether his airport caravan sized train of “baggage” might allow Barack Obama’s reelection team to make the race an archaeological dig into the former speaker’s lengthy history rather than a referendum on the wreckage left in the wake of Obama’s first three years in office.
But following his impressive hat trick [1] on February 7th, we are now faced with a different possibility in the person of former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. (Or, as he was known through the course of the first 349 debates, “that guy at the last lectern who never gets any questions.”) And if the seas part at precisely the right moment and he somehow becomes the nominee, we may find ourselves with the opportunity to conduct a long-awaited and fascinating experiment in American political theory.
http://pjmedia.com/blog/this-is-rick-santorum/?print=1
You mean just like the first Republican President?????
This is not the same world as it was in 2006. It’s barely the same planet.
Romney & Santorum - 30%
Gingrich - 16%
Paul - 15%
Santorum for President Ping List.
FReepmail “Antoninus” to be added or removed.
Much better to lose an election, than to get kicked out. I think Reagan said something like that once.
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