Two new polls: Santorum surges and now ties Romney

 

So how much did last week's non-binding caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota, as well as the beauty contest in Missouri, influence the GOP presidential contest?

So much so that Rick Santorum's victories in all three races have catapulted him into an essential tie with Mitt Romney, according to two new national polls. 

A Pew Research Center survey, conducted Feb. 8-12 among GOP registered voters, has Santorum at 30%, Romney at 28%, Newt Gingrich at 17%, and Ron Paul at 12%. In a Pew poll a month ago, it was Romney 31%, Gingrich 16%, Paul 15%, and Santorum 14%.

(In general election match-ups, Pew has President Obama leading Romney by eight points, 52%-44%; Santorum by 10, 53%-43%; and Gingrich by 18, 57%-39%.)

And a new Gallup poll, also conducted Feb. 8-12, has Romney at 32% among registered GOP voters, Santorum at 30%, Gingrich at 16%, and Paul at 8%.

A week ago, Santorum was at 16% -- so that's a 14-point increase for him.

Of course, the former Pennsylvania senator now becomes the latest Republican presidential candidate to surge in the national polls, joining the likes of Rick Perry, Herman Cain, and Newt Gingrich.

And it keeps alive this trend: A holding-steady Romney vs. a surging conservative alternative.

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Rick Santorum? Seriously GOP? Seriously? That is the best you can do?

Well, at the minimum, this is another loser candidate Romney has to spend time and money taking down. Every time, voters in the GOP and elsewhere get more disenchanted with Romney, and more enthused and positive about Obama.

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Reply#209 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:08 AM EST

SANTORUM, YOU'RE ON THE WRONG BALLTEAM! Don't mess with that Wishy-Washy Mexican corporate puppet! We, the American People of the United States want so badly for him to get the nomination SO PRESIDENT OBAMA CAN INIALATE HIM ON ELECTION DAY !!!!!

YOU'RE TOO NICE A GUY FOR THE REPUBLICAN CORPORATES! PULL OUT NOW! AND JOIN OUR PRESIDENT; THEN YOU'LL BE ON THE SIDE OF THE American People of the United States!

IT'S TIME FOR CHANGE, AND THAT TIME IS NOW! NOT LATER, BUT RIGHT NOW!!

    Reply#210 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:09 AM EST

    Do condom manufacturers and no-tell motels have a Super-Pac?

      Reply#211 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:22 AM EST

      SANTORUM SURGES: Because slime always rises to the top.........

      In 2005, Santorum made headlines — not all positive — for visiting the deathbed of Terri Schiavo, the woman at the center of a national right-to-die controversy. Philadelphia Daily News reporter John Baer later exposed that the real reason Santorum was in the Tampa, Fla., area was to collect money at a $250,000 fundraiser organized by executives of Outback Steakhouses, a company that shared Santorum's passion for a low minimum wage for waitresses and other rank-and-file workers. Santorum’s efforts were also aided by his unusual mode of travel: Wal-Mart's corporate jet. Santorum canceled a public meeting on Social Security reform "out of respect for the Schiavo family" even as the closed fundraisers for Santorum went on.

      As it happens, in a book including a chapter on the Schiavo case from the perspective of the good people who worked at the Woodside Hospice and lived through the completely unnecessary political dog and pony show brought down on the place by opportunistic jerks like Rick Santorum. There was an elementary school down the block that had to be closed because of bomb threats. There was the hospice cook who got called a "Nazi" and a "murderer" on her way to work. There was the volunteer — a woman whom even both George H.W. Bush and his son, Jeb, had commended for her work at the hospice — who had to stop coming because of the “Sanctimonious Santorums” who had laid siege to the place. There was the brave and strong Annie Santa Maria, who had to try and keep that hospice running through all the foul madness that had been visited upon it and the people who do such great work there, every day, and who once was unable to break up a near fistfight between Santorum supporting priests in her lobby because she had to stay by a fax machine to wait for a Santorum inspired congressional subpoena for Terri Schiavo that was being faxed from Washington by opportunistic supporters of Rick Santorum. These people wanted Terri to testify, despite the fact that she pretty much had no brain left to speak of and no muscle functions.

      The Schiavo case was a “Sanctimonious Santorum” moment, and the conservative movement in this country was revealed for the deceitful, arrogant, anti-humanity enterprise that it always has been. I don't even care that Santorum went down there on the Wal-Mart corporate jet to raise money from a bunch of steakhouse fatcats. I don't even care that, his involvement in the Schiavo circus may have been the first real factor contributing to his eventual loss to Bob Casey, Jr. in the Pennsylvania Senate race.

      Now, though, Santorum claims that all he wanted was for judges to look at the case "fairly."

      "What I cared about with Terri Schiavo was that a judge looked at the case fairly and they did. And they made their decision," Santorum said.

      The senator is, unsurprisingly, as full of it. Back in 2006, he not only didn't care about what judges thought, he actively sought to use his office as senator to pressure them to abandon their fair reading of the case:

      "For this judge in this district to ignore [the right to feeding tubes in the Schiavo case] is tantamount, I believe, to an offense that should be discussed in the Congress," Senator Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican, told Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity in an interview Tuesday. "What we asked for in the Congress was a new finding of fact," Santorum said. "And this judge in this district ignored it, snubbed his nose at Congress, I think against the law. I think he should be held accountable for it."

      Santorum also criticized Circuit Court Judge George Greer for ignoring subpoenas Congress issued seeking to question Terri, hardly more than a lump of breathing tissue, her estranged husband Michael, and hospice administrators.

      The subpoenas were issued in an attempt to stall removing Terri’s feeding tube, but Greer overruled them and reissued his order authorizing Terri’s feeding tube removal.

      Both Judge Greer and Judge Whittemore also were receiving death threats, and Whittemore was living under the protection of federal marshals for quite some time. This has escaped Santorum's memory.

      Instead, Santorum exploited the Schiavo family's personal tragedy for his own political gain. This “good Catholic boy” committed an unforgivable mortal sin against charity. Santorum contributed to a disgusting public spectacle that made life difficult for some wonderful people doing great, impossible work, people whose boots Santorum is not worthy to even lick.

      Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/rick-santorum-terri-schiavo-6633360#ixzz1mNOVTTex

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      Reply#212 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:39 PM EST

      MkeMike-----So true but so very sad/

        #212.1 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:19 PM EST
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        Is santitorium surging because sandusky is behind him???? Is sandusky even giving santitorium a reach around?????

          Reply#213 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:52 PM EST

          So, the Republican party steps closer to the far right of the political spectrum to National Socialism.

            Reply#214 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:26 PM EST

            Update for all you non believers as of 12pm 2/14/12 Santorum leading Romney in national polls and His home town of Michigan ,woo hoo Once ol Newt bites the dust we can really beat up on Romney.Just goes to show no matter how much money you spend and thrash other candidates the Humble shall rise, Romney should send all you clowns a 100 dollar bill so you can buy your wives or girlfriends a nice Valentine gift, Instead of having to pawn your great grand mothers wedding ring. Thank you God for another beautiful day and Blessing Our candidate Rick Santorum.

              Reply#215 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:05 PM EST

              Proverbs

              Thank you God for another beautiful day and Blessing Our candidate Rick Santorum.

              Appears that somebody's God is really fickle. He enticed Michelle into the contest, dumped her and then smiled on Cowboy Ricky for a while. Now you think Ricky S. is the new chosen one?

              Could "The Donald" be next?

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              #215.1 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:10 PM EST
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              Re: GOP voter mood.

              Good article in NYT the other day examining the ambivalence of MN Tea party advocates with safety net benefits they receive. Dependents (servants) eventually resent their Masters (even comfortable "House" slaves were ungrateful).

              The point of the NYT article is that rural MN voters feel compromised for accepting needed government largess rather than turning it down, and blaming "Big Government" for forcing them into the Faustian Bargain.

              This drives their "Tea Party" advocacy even if it runs counter to their families well being.

                Reply#216 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:05 PM EST

                The Pope's boy who is backed by thousands of rapist pedophile catholic priests is not going to win by a landslide, he is going to wind up in a landfill with the rest of the garbage that is running for the cracked teanuts party.

                Sanitarium's backers have destroyed the lives of so many young boys and their families, just as Sanitarium himself will destroy everyone elses.

                The best bet for the radical cracked teanuts and their pedophile rapist priests and Jesus Freak backers are the best of their family values candidates.

                Cain/Sandusky in 2012. Sandusky is eligible to run because he is out on bail. Sandusky, the person that every rapist pedophile catholic priest looks up to for guidance.

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                Reply#217 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:38 PM EST

                @ Life2:

                And you have presented the perfect example of liberalism being a mental disorder -

                rallying for the Obama Administration - that placed a known PEDOPHILE - as the CZAR of SAFE SCHOOLS - Kevin JENNINGS - famous for his work with NAMBLA; his lectures on "FISTING" to young school children - and placing child porn in the schools.

                *

                Is this how the Obama Administration should "indoctrinate" young school children into the "gay" life?

                Or, is this the degradation of society - degradation of the family unit - by the government "teaching" young school children - what they should be learning from their parents at home?

                  #217.1 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:23 AM EST
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                  In order for Sanitarium to get the pedophile rapist catholic priests votes, he will have to play their little game with them to show that he is one of them. It is called "Pass The Little Boy". Sad but true.
                  In my area of Southeastern,PA there were over 30 of Sanitariums backers arrested for raping and attempted rape of little boys in the last 5 years. When one priest would get done with a lttle boy, he would pass his name on to another priest. The criminal Catholic Cardinal John Bevilaqua was fired, by the Pope A Dope who should take responsibility for all of this raping, for covering this up. Bevilaqua died before his trial came up.

                  Sanitarium should seek a constitutional amendment banning the catholic church, rather than to ban abortion and contraception. The reason is very obvious-"Catholicism breeds pedophiles".

                    Reply#218 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:20 PM EST

                    Poor Bill, he just doesn't get any respect.

                      Reply#219 - Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:08 PM EST

                      Posted by another: "I will not vote for ANY Republican running for ANY office in my state and I'll use my education, my wealth, my sweat, and my influence to encourage others to join in this patriotic effort!"

                      *****

                      Don't kid yrself!

                      AMERICAN PATRIOTS came out - for the 2010 midterm elections - and gave the Democratic Party the best/worst VOTE-WHIPPING in over SIXTY Years -

                      with 722 seats across the nation - going to Republicans - in state and federal government.

                      Even Obama said he got a good shellacking!

                      ****

                      ANYBODY BUT OBAMA in 2012:

                      After OPERATION FAST and FURIOUS = the Obama Administration arming ILLEGAL ALIENS and NARCO-TERRORISTS, providing safe haven on US soil to CRIMINALS, protecting their access in/out of The USA - inciting the VIOLENCE - while refusing to control, close and enforce our US Borders -

                      when GOVERNORS were "pleading" with this Administration to protect the US Borders - because of the VIOLENCE - Obama ignoring - and refusing to honor - the Constitutional Authority of the Governors of The United States of America - in their "request" from the federal government for what was needed for their Border State - that is required as a matter of NATIONAL SECURITY:

                      ANYBODY BUT OBAMA - 2012 =

                      the COVER-UP with Eric Holder as US AG - called-out for LYING in a congressional hearing on what he knew about Operation Fast and Furious - and LYING about what the White House knew; Holder refusing to co-operate to produce documents, placing the WIRETAP authorizations under SEAL to further conceal the identities of the parties in The White House signing off on the wiretaps - directly involved with Operation Fast and Furious.

                      The Cover-up placed "on-record" in the congressional hearing that weapons from Operation Fast and Furious were found at the crime scenes of the cold-blooded killings of US Border agent Brian Terry and ICE agent Jaimie Zapata - (thanks to Obama's Rules of Engagement - for our US law enforcement authorities to not use lethal force - but "bean-bag ammunition" - when approached by armed illegal aliens - giving the illegal aliens the edge when using weapons from Operation Fast and Furious to hunt with the intent to kill our US Border agents - as what was admitted by one of the Illegal Aliens captured from the group who fired upon US Border agent Brian Terry - with a bullet to his BACK).

                      Placed on-record by Committee Members = Eric Holder as US AG admitted in the congressional hearing - that he had NOT contacted the family of US Border agent Brian Terry - to offer his condolences - over ONE YEAR after his death - or ICE agent Jaimie Zapata. But yet, Holder - and Hillary Clinton as US Secretary of State - had immediately called to the family of Khamir Khan, the Jihadist Propogandist as the right-hand man of Anwar al-Walaki - who was killed in a drone attack with al-Walaki - offering their condolences for Khan's death.

                      US Government officials - as TERRORIST SYMPATHIZERS - offering condolences to the family of people involved in inciting JIHAD against The USA - providing counsel to Radical Muslims intent on killing Americans - such as the 911 hijackers, Major Nidal Hasan as the Radical Muslim shooter at Fort Hood, Texas, who killed 14 people = 13 soldiers and one pregnant soldier = 14, gravely wounding THIRTY-TWO others; FORT DIX incident; The Christmas Day bomber.

                      The RADICAL MUSLIM TERRORIST ATTACK on a US MILITARY BASE on US SOIL - at Fort Hood, Texas - mischaracterized - and misclassified by Eric Holder as US AG and The White House - as just "workplace" VIOLENCE - when this scumbag screamed Allah Akbar when shooting everyone, was known to be a radicalized Muslim - by the NUMEROUS complaints against Major Hasan as a Doctor/Psychiatrist - harrassing his "patients" to go to war against the USA - in the name of Islam; Hasan changing his lecture on medical procedures - into a lecture on SUICIDE BOMBERS and RADICAL ISLAM - while also expressing his excitement over the Radical Muslim Terrorist attack at the recruiting station in Arkansas, wherein one Soldier was killed, the other gravely wounded - that Major Nidal Hasan clearly stated he would have killed more! - becoming the Ft. Hood shooter only months later - after seeking counsel with Anwar al-Walaki, who counseled the 911 hijackers and The Christmas Day bomber.

                      The refusal of Eric Holder as US AG - to turn over all information about the Ft. Hood MASSACRE and Major Nidal Hasan - to our US Congress within SEVEN days of the incident - by LAW - for Congress to begin their investigation. Our US Senators exposing what was going on - the WH was intercepting the investigation by Congress - that created the situation that Obama would state that he wanted to conduct an investigation on his own - prior to our US Congress starting their investigation = OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE - and - OBSTRUCTING TRUTHFUL INFORMATION being placed into the congressional record of the RADICAL MUSLIM TERRORIST ATTACK on a US MILITARY base on US SOIL - that the Arab and Muslim world were celebrating in the same manner as 911.

                      Obama abusing his authority and power as POTUS - to prevent an independent investigation by our US Congress - as the first time in US history - the Executive Branch of Government seized control of Investigative Authority - that according to the US Constitution belongs to our US Congress. The motive and result of his actions to be = to downplay a Radical Muslim Terrorist attack on a US Military base on US soil - as just "workplace" violence. This outrageous motive fits into his scheme of things to remove all references to Radical Islam from our US Security manuals.

                      Major Nidal Hasan as the Fort Hood shooter, The Christmas Day bomber, The Times Square bomber - should be in GITMO - held for MILITARY TRIBUNALS - for their ACTS of WAR against The USA.

                      So should Obama and Holder - for their ACTS of POLITICAL TERRORISM - against The USA.

                      ABO 2012

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                      Reply#220 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:11 AM EST

                      FinaBiscotti: For a second you had me going -- I thought you were serious. But I see now you are the third brother Grimm -- there were Jacob and Wilhelm, and you are the missing Onanieren. Some fine fairy tales, thanks.

                        #220.1 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:09 PM EST

                        Stalebiscuit. How come an idiot like you didn't get taken away by the evangelical king Harold Camping on hs trip to meet and stay with the man in the sky. Well, maybe next time. You sound like someone that some catholic rapist priest got to when you went to church school.

                        You should go to welfare queen Michelle (never tells the truth) Bachman's Mental Health Clinic in MN where she claims Jesus and God come once a week to treat braindeads like you, to become completey disfunctional.

                          #220.2 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:55 PM EST
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                          The minimal number of voters involved with the Republican caucus/primaries is not indicative of the country as a whole. The ranting and hate mongering of the far right does not make me think that the Republican Party has the people that would do the best for our country if they were elected.

                            Reply#221 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:32 AM EST
                            Christine Whittemorevia FacebookDeleted

                            I think all the coverage of his little daughter, Bella, her illness and stay in the hospital helped him IMMENSELY a few weeks ago. I think he knows it, too.

                            I saw a new ad last night that he's putting out; and Bella was prominently featured in it. There's something about him using her like that which makes me more than a bit uncomfortable.

                            Now, I'm not saying he should hide her in the attic or something -- I just think perhaps one or two scenes of him with his entire family would have been more tasteful than using SEVERAL scenes of him with only Bella. It feels like he's using her to get votes.

                              Reply#223 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:38 AM EST

                              I VOTE no confidence on any of these $ rich slugs!

                                Reply#224 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 2:37 PM EST

                                please whitey do the right thing nominate the only candidate that can beat pres obama.so i don't have to hear four more years of the white devil whinning my ears cant take it.

                                  Reply#225 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 4:16 PM EST

                                  I agree. Cain/Sandusky in 2012. The true family values candidates of the right wing radical cracked teanut party.

                                    #225.1 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:00 PM EST
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                                    Santorum voted for billions in earmarks as a Senator
                                    including the Bridge to nowhere. Now he says he is against them. Sounds like a
                                    flip flopper to me.

                                      Reply#226 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:06 PM EST

                                      Santorum is trying to show his sensitive side too. Just last
                                      week he said Women shouldn't serve in combat because of emotional issues...
                                      oops he meant to say mens emotional issues. Such a sensitive guy

                                        Reply#227 - Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:07 PM EST

                                        lol people... its not that santorum is surging, its that more and more indepedents who polled for romney, are now polling for obama... Romney is dropping down to santorums level.... Thats the difference.

                                        Besides, I hope santorum gets the nomination, I know he will lose no matter what. Hes too crazy to be president.

                                          Reply#228 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 12:57 PM EST

                                          Go Mitt. I'd be happy to have you represent the United States anywhere in the world. It sounds like a tough road ahead, but I am confident that you can handle it.

                                          P.S. I don't want a Santorum, sleeveless, sweater-ever!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                          Newton: Remember, we went to the Moon 40 years ago. Catch up, damit.

                                            Reply#229 - Sat Feb 18, 2012 7:32 PM EST

                                            Van Susteran showed the investigation of Romneycare in Massachusetts Friday news. Romneycare is pretty much the same as Obamacare right down to fines and jailtime if you don't pick up the fees. PUNCHLINE is that Romney lead us to believe that it is mostly funded By Mass. taxes and fees. In fact $583,000,000 in mandated federal tax funded earmarks held over from predecessor's Gov. Weld and Ted Kennedy, are what Romney coveted to start up Romneycare. That with the yearly fees and cost overuns of $150,000,000+ last year is costing Us federal taxpayers mucho bucks, it will continue to compound and explode as years pass. Romneycare like Obamacare should be squelshed. It's not protocall for all taxpayers to pick up the tab for a product of which they have no access to. Why should out of state taxpayers pay insurance premiums for MA residents when they themselves can't access it. Obama is ostricised for Obamacare Yet Romney created it in Mass. right down to being federally mandated, subsidised with federal taxdollars and gets a get out of jail card free by the republican majority. Now we find out Romney earmarked 1.5 billion dollars of federally funded taxdollars for the Olympics, most money spent in the history of the USA on Olympics. Millions upon millions spent wastefully. No wonder the Olympics ran so smoothly, This guy has the ordacity to slam fellow candidates with signing for earmarks. Wake up republicans how much snake oil can you continue to consume? Offshore accounts, twisting truth, rewriting history going after fellow candidates(Bachman, Cain, Gingrich now Santorum, Fact check every word Romney speaks. You will find Romney compulsively twist truth some times to the extreme."You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe."- Carl Sagan

                                              Reply#230 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 5:11 AM EST
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