Then why has he done BY FAR the worst of any Republican candidate in dozens and dozens of matchup polls against Obama for months?
For the last month or so, of course, most of the polling groups haven't even bothered to include him in their matchup polling for obvious reasons...
Media block says it well. They've time and again refused to allow the people to hear Newt....because when they do Newt gets standing ovations each and every time.
Look, Obama has zip zero concern over Romney and Santorum. As soon as Newt rose the Obama machine with Romney and the Republican Elite brought everything they had against Newt to take him out. ..and he still stood. Their only recourse then was a media black out. And we know the media was more than happy to be pimped.
Additionally.....everybody is quite aware that Newt is outstanding and stands taller than any other in debates for his knowledge of events and his indepth awareness of who and what Obama is about,... and about to do if he gets four more years...... As well as his grasp on how the Republican elite operate and the media. He's had the whole arsenal aimed and firing at him from the get go...try and dodge all those bullets and see if any candidate could stand....yet Newt is still in the game.
The media black out of Newt is now what is keeping Newt at bay...."silence the opposition" if you will. If the people can't hear him then he isn't there while they focus attention on Romney, (who the establishment and liberals want), and give Santorum false hope that he's reflective of the party by the media giving him all the face time needed to make it appear he's the alternative to Romney. Sadly conservatives took the bait and so did Santorum... and are running with it.
Matchup polls this far out from a November presidential election are USELESS. By your logic we should all concede the election right now since Obama has been ahead against all the candidates in virtually every poll. All it would take is for Newt to have one debate with Obama and we’d get the kind of bump Palin gave to the McCain ticket. Santorum will stutter and stammer and lose every debate badly, looking like an intellectual featherweight.
After a Romney-Obama debate, people will be scratching their heads wondering what the difference is between the two of them. And we’ll all be counting how many times Romney says Obama is a good man and a good president who he acknowledges a lot of people like and who he respects and admires but just has just a couple suggestions for him that he maybe might want to think about if he doesn’t mind and if he’s not too busy. There’s a reason Romney has said far worse and meaner things about Santorum and Gingrich than he ever has about Obama. He likes Obama and agrees with his general world view and most of his policies.