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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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Santorum is trying to set up a theocracy !
Way too long of a post and your point is that Santorum can't be trusted. There I did the same thing in 15 words!
The earmarks among many things will eventually sink Santorums holy boat. His views are too extreme for today's people and even though Romney is Mormon, Santorums Catholic views on several subjects will come accross as too extreme for many and drop him back a few notches. Remeber Gingrich hasn't opened his mouth yet so expect the Newt to strike his so called friend Ricky and help out Romney. The longer Newt and Rick stay in, the better Romney will be. And I do not see a Santorum / Gingrich ticket. Heaven help us all if that happens. Republicans will vote for Obama before they cast a vote for Simon & Garfunkel.
terry purvis --- good post. shows what a phony santorum is.
Is the GOP aware of the fact that Santorum is a severe liberal!
poor little lord romney can't seem to even buy a break anymore. how very very sad when all that money and lies can't help.
Yes, I have long been begging conservatives to line up behind one conservative candidate regardless if he or she is their favorite. Romney cannot win with 30% of the primary votes. The only way he can win is to have the conservatives split over several candidates. We are on the RIGHT track. Can you say 6-3 Supreme Court. LOL
Road Warrior - There are conservatives and there are conservatives - would you want to live your life under a Theocracy? One religion for all - telling you where to pray - ruling your life under strict doctrine?
This country was founded by people who said no!
Rick Santorum wants you to believe in his beliefs - sorry little boys and big boys ain't going to happen!
Romney nor Santorum will ever win. President Obama in a near landslide.
Trash talk is only good until kickoff.
fedup, I'm predicting an Obama landslide by about 20 points already.
Remember the Carter experience.
HA! Obama has been more Reagan-esque than all 4 of the remaining GOP candidates COMBINED!
It almost looks like the GOP WANTS to LOSE this election. A bigot moron like Santorum has zero chance of beating Obama. I'd like to see Obama get 4 more years, so it's all good that the circus clowns are coming to Tampa where we can get a first hand look at this lot of losers.
Road Warrior
"trash talk is only good until kickoff"....
Are you referring to when you teapublicans said you could run Mickey Mouse and beat Obama?
Or when you all said anyone of the 9 GOP candidates on stage would take OBama down with ease?
It's funny libs like to compare Obama to Reagan. Reagan was responsible for justices Scalia, O'Connor and Rehnquist. LOL
B Dune,
I'm assuming you are referring to 2008. Obama couldn't lose if he tried in 2008. It was a referendum on Bush. McCain was too much like Bush. Obama cannot win in 2012 because it is anyone but Obama and he is too much like Carter.
Nice spin Road Warrior....
I didn't mention Bush, McCain...
You read what I posted - GOP said this would be a cakewalk - as recently as last fall before the debates began and the ineptness of the candidates available showed their true colors.
Since you seem to profess to be the historian - pls go back to 2004 when we libs felt we could unseat Bush because of his negatives.......we learned then, as you teapublicans will in 2012 - it takes more then hate of a sitting President to unseat him.....you will actually have to come up with a viable candidate!
Good luck with that - so far you are failing miserably!
Not many dems I've heard comparing Obama to Reagan, at least not sane ones. Also,,, Road Warrior, wasn't that anti-semetic actor Mel Gibson the one who played the Road Warrior.
Santorum will never win the Republican nomination due to his unpopular views on way too many front page topics. He will surge and drop just like the rest. Romney would be stupid to choose him as his VP and smarter to go with someone like Rubio who can take the hispanic vote away from Obama. Santorum cannot be trusted and once the media and other established Republicans sink their teeth into him, he will end up just like the rest. Sorry Rick maybe another time.
Good grief, Santorum even go to the point where he couldn't even get elected in his own STATE and he expects the rest of us to see it differently?!
Agree with DP. I can't see any Republican getting elected as they have just shot themselves in the foot too many times so far. The right wing fringe doesn't trust Mitt and that is a good sign for Mitt as far as I'm concerned. Santorum just alienated 1/2 the population with his stance on birth control. Paul is a flake and the Newtster has sunk. What a sorry lot.
Do you think that once the nominee points out all of Obama's failures, I.E. foreign policy, Iran, betrayal of Israel, dealing with China aka trade deficit, patent infringement, monetary policy, military buildup; and our banking crisis, unemployment, the housing crisis, national debt, cutting of the military budget to an all time low per percentage of national GPA, gutting NASA, plus his ever consistent attacks on Christianity, support of gay marriage and abortion, health care, new taxes, his Supreme Court nominations, Eric Holder and Fast and Furious, his apology tour, and of course his inability to tell the truth will somehow cause the republicans to lose in November? Good luck liberals you'll need all the networks from CNN, BBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, Illegals, and NPR to even make it competitive.
Hey Bill, what about all of Obama achievements? Or are you one of those Fox News fair and balanced kind of people?
Bill, Bill, Bill, look at what you wrote! Don't you realize that the President will be elected by a land slide BECAUSE of his successes with everything you point out as failures. You and Rush Limbaugh see all of his policies as failures, when, in fact, they have been success stories. That's why you and your party will be going down for the count in November, Bill. Only FOX (the Entertainment Network, NOT a news network--FOX was given the legal right to lie to its audience by the 2nd District Appellate Court of Florida in 2003 and has continued to follow that legal practice) sees things your way. Stay with them, Bill. They'll tell you like it is---just exactly what you want them to do.
Bill,
My President had Osama bin Laden killed what did your do?
The Democratic party is seized by extreme leftists, who try to destroy America in all possible ways: they flood USA with America-hating immigrants, especially Muslims, destroy the economy by socialist experiments, and do not defend America in the face of the Muslim jihad. Instead, they help Islamists everywhere and do not prevent Iran from obtaining nukes.
Any Republican candidate is much better than any Democratic one.
spoken like a true stupid redneck Ivan! Your statement reeks of no intelligence, just a moronic ranting.
Ivan: hahahahahahahahaha Good piece of sarcasm!
Ivan, you are such a fool.
Poor Ivan with such a bad case of cerebralanalopathy.
Who's worried? Obama is one and done. He failed, in fact deepened the recession. Landslide victory for whoever runs in the GOP.
check those meds and stat!
Obama is going to win..again. I can't wait until the next day to see how all the bigot morons in this country will react to the news.
Bill: hahahahahahahahahahaha And "conservatives" wonder why everyone thinks their knuckles drag the ground when they walk! Thanks for your post and proving once again why people believe what they do about you and your ilk! hahahahahaha
Bill, all untrue and wrong. Obama in a near landslide.
Poor Mitt. He spends tens of millions of dollars, building an organization, making and airing expensive political ads (which nobody wants to see), and campaigning like a frenzied tasmanian devil.
...and he is still everybody's second choice. It has been (in rough order), Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich (again), and finally Rick Santorum.
It's about time for the GOP to start again at the top of the order.
If tomorrow McCain announced his candidacy, I'm sure he too could be the popular favorite ...for a while.
Mitt gets a near solid 25% every time out.
This campaign is moving the republicans so far to the right that Obama won't have to say much as long as the economy improves. The GOP made a mistake by implacably opposing everything and coming off as angry and nasty to boot. Now they'll spend the general election campaign defending tax cuts for the rich. Good luck with that. Some consolation-the GOP will still take control of the Senate and hold the House.
ENTP - I agree. That is pretty much how it always works. If people perceive the economy is reasonably good shape, they usually vote for the incumbent candidate, and if the economy tanks, they do not, regardless of the merits of whom is running.
So, if unemployment is under 8% by November, and nobody catches Obama in some embarrassing scandal, he'll win in a walk. Mitt Romney has the additional handicap of having to attack Obama's health care reform with one breath, and then defend his own, strikingly similar plan, which he implemented in Massachusettes. Everytime health care reform comes up between now and November, O'l Mitt will have to put on his dancing shoes and start shuffling his feet.
I like the guy, but I don't see him winning.
The problem with the lower than 8 percent theory is there are 2 million people who stopped looking for work who are not being counted and who are not going to believe things have gotten better. They all have friends and relatives. There are millions more who are working in jobs that pay far less than they did before the crash. It is misguided to think these people will vote for the president because the unemployment rate is artificially lowered to below 8 percent, and Junk Journalists are not reporting the severity of unemployment.
Obama's best hope is a Mitt nomination. Mitt is not capable of explaining the power of freedom and liberty.
Yes, jjchronicles, most of us are well aware that the true number of unwillingly, unemployed people in this country is greater than 8%. But the point is, that after 3+ years, the economy does appear to be picking up steam, and voters realize this fact.
Some blame Obama for not fixing things faster. Others say that the economy was so damaged that a faster recovery may not have been possible.
It doesn't matter who is right. Come November, if the economy has been improving over the preceding 11 months, Obama will probably win. If not, not, regardless of whom his opponent may be.
You don't like Mitt Romney [or Obama, I'm guessing]. For myself I could bring myself to vote for Romney, if I felt Obama had done so poorly in his term in office. I would have difficulty voting for any of the other GOP candidates, and I suspect a lot of middle-of-the-road voters feel the same.
So, it is Romney or bust for the GOP this year. The sooner Republicans realize it, the better their chances will be.
If santitorium is surging is sandusty behind him!!!!
What a zoo!
BUTT...Santorum is the ONLY candidate that has a new definition added for his name. You stay classy, with that frothy discharge out of your anus, Rick!
Won't be long now before unnamed sources will be leaking dirt on Santorum and junk
journalists will print or broadcast it without substantiation. David Gregory’s junk journalism performance was just the beginning. Expect more bias characterizations,
condescension and questions that sound like they came from the Democrat play
book. Gregory did not think to ask Jack Lew, where the president gets the authority to order private companies to provide products for free? He did ask Santorum if woman would be hired by his administration. It’s unbelievable corporate media continues to provide voters such a deficient product.
The % of AMERICAN voters the right wing nutjob republicans HAS NOT pissed off is getting smaller and smaller!!!!!!!
Infinitesimal, really! I can't think of any segment of the american public they haven't demeaned, disparaged, or shown outright disdain for except prehaps the White Upper Middle Class Country Club Set and their favorite trust Fund Babies---you know, the do nothing Martini Swillers with silly nick names.
The thinking person can never be "pissed off" at an advocate for freedom. The worst Martini drinkers are those named, Obama, Kennedy, Buffett, Soros, Pelosi, Feinstein and Boxer. They advocate higher taxes on us while doing everything they can to avoid paying taxes.
When your leaders read your posts, they laugh at how easy it is to manipulate you.
If you all hate the 1 percent, why are so many of the Democrats in the Senate and House in the 1 percent. They are far wealthier than Republican Senators and House members.
Why are companies that support the president, Apple, Google and Microsoft all lowering their taxes with tax schemes approved by your government.
The goal is to tax the middle class, those making between $75,000 and $500,000, while making misinformed people believe they are taxing the rich. You are all victims of Junk Journalism.
They are making promises they cannot keep. The maths is there for all to see. Too many poorly informed people are willing to live with the scraps given to them by government as long as they think they are putting it to their neighbor who has a penny more than them.
In order for the politics of envy to work, the population has to be incapable of critical thinking. It appears the schools are doing their part.
These three loser Mitt, Rick, and Newt are no Republicans they do not stand for any of the Republican ideas. They are more Democratic than Republican, and Rick,Newt are two nutcases. How could any true Republican vote for these three is beyond me. None of them will win without Ron Pauls support. That leaves Obama winning in 2012.
Obamalama-ding-dong couldn't lead the rats out of Hamelin if he were a master flautist.
In ten months we cut the liberal puppet strings and bid a fond (or not so fond) farewell to the Democratic paper tiger and all the fantasies of a Eutopian state based on entitlements.
Yes we can! Yes we can! Sure we can. Just not with B.O. at the helm.
'Nuff said.
According to Grover Norquist at CPAC it doesn't really matter who the Republican candidate is because all they need is someone to sign the legislation passed by the Congress.
". . . We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. ... We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don't need someone to think it up or design it.. ."
So what Republicans are looking for is a figurehead who will do as he's told.
Yes, They got awfully used to having old GW around!
What grover said should scare hell out of AMERICANS!!!! We should give Obama super majorities in both houses of congress!!!!
dadel: Geeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzz. I must really have missed understanding how government works some where along in my life given the fact I taught American Government, American State and Local Government, Comparative Government, and International Relations at the senior college level for years and years.
For all you people wanting Santorum and Romney on a ticket, this may give you chills
I think they will try Romney and Rubio, if they ever get around to trusting Romney which is still anyone's guess!
Santorum won't get Pennsylvania. We didn't want him as a Senator and we sure don't want him as President.
Thanks Mike;; Keep screaming it to high heaven!!!!
So the "Romulian" is having trouble with the "Severely Intorlerant" Santorum. None of these GOP Clowns are Presidential at all. Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! The Party Of NO has got to go!
I wonder who will be the "frontrunner" or "the alternative to Romney" next week.
*Crosses finger that Trump runs as a independent and someone else jumps into the election circus*
If Republicans pick him I'd be surprised if he beat Obama