talk about low expectations... Santorum: I need to top Perry and Bachmann

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9. For him, that probably would be pretty good

Maybe not to beat Bachmann, but to beat Perry? Despite Perry's fall, he's still retained 10-15 percent in various polls. Ricky has barely cracked the low single digits. If you go from 2 to 16, you've still increased your support by a factor of 8.

That being said, Perry has $$ to keep running even if he doesn't do great in Iowa. Santorum many not have much gas left even if he does do better than expected.

I predict Santorum does better than expected in Iowa, but that will just result in a stay of execution for him. He'll still be long gone before this thing is over.