Wow... 'Santorum Grabs National Lead' - FDL

[WillyT]

Santorum Grabs National Lead
By: Jon Walker - FDL
Monday February 13, 2012 3:24 pm

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The good news for Rick Santorum keeps on coming. Santorum now has surged to a modest two point lead over Mitt Romney in Pew Research national Republican primary polling. The poll was conducted from February 8-12 directly after Santorum’s three big wins last Tuesday. From Pew: http://www.people-press.org/2012/02/13/santorum-catches-romney-in-gop-race/?src=prc-headline



Santorum is beating Romney, because he is now doing much better among more conservative voting groups. Santorum has a double digit lead among Tea Party supporters (42% Santorum – 23% Romney) and White Evangelicals (41% Santorum – 23% Romney).

Besides showing him with the national lead, the poll’s other piece of relatively good news for Santorum is that Romney does only slightly better than Santorum in a theoretical general election match up with Obama. Romney performs only two points better in the general. From Pew:

Obama leads Santorum by 10 points among all registered voters (53% to 43%) and his lead over Romney is nearly as large (52% to 44%). Romney ran about even with Obama in November and mid-January. Obama has a larger advantage over Newt Gingrich than over Santorum or Romney: Obama leads the former House speaker by 18 points (57% to 39%). Obama has made gains among independent voters. Today, 51% of independents favor Obama in a matchup against Romney, up from 40% a month ago.

Link: http://elections.firedoglake.com/2012/02/13/santorum-grabs-national-lead/



Just...

[metalbot]

1. I think a lot of Republicans are starting to realize that they need a brokered convention

The overwhelming choice for Republicans right now is "none of the above", and a brokered convention is really their only chance to put up someone else.

[Siwsan]

2. Santorum is the "not" candidate

He's not Newt. He's not Willard. The evangelicals are probably voting for him because he's not Mormon. Ok, he is a catholic, but not a twice divorced, newt-come-lately catholic who either paid or influenced his way into the church, ala Newt.

Let's face it, nobody really likes either of the other two, nobody really believes Ron Paul is a republican, so who is left?

At least the debates will be fun to watch.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. Are there any left? Mittard refuses to answer questions (with good reason), newt

Does badly unless there is a cheering sextion. (his former wives could fill the bleachers), and santorum does far better with a fan base, not with pesky fact based questions.

[customerserviceguy]

5. That bleachers comment was really low

and damned funny, made me laugh out loud!

[markpkessinger]

3. At this point, the GOP has been reduced to throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks! n/t

[customerserviceguy]

6. Which is deeply disturbing to the religious freedom of fans of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

How dare they mock us Pastafarians!

[Angry Dragon]

7. Santorum throughout the country

A great job plan
It will need lots of workers to clean it up

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. LOL!!

[libtodeath]

9. Please

let him be the nominee,between the still partly sane that say they are repubs staying home and the rest of the country looking in horror at what he would bring we should crush them finally out of existence.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. Romney has got to go severely conservative to keep up

I'm expecting him to promote a reintroduction of the auto da fe and public execution of heretics and witches. Santorum's success is bad news because it forces Romney further to the right. It will make it impossible for Romney to go back to the middle if he captures the nomination.

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. and Santorum does better among dogs!

dogs that prefer to ride inside.

[Enrique]

12. froth rises to the top