Santorum lost to Mutt Romney who got 38 percent of the vote in the Ohio primary when Noot was still running to split the anti-GOP-E vote. Romney then proceeded to lose to the Caliph by 160,000 votes in the general. He beat Santorum with 41 percent of the vote in the Michigan primary, again with Noot to split the vote, and was then edged by the Caliph by 450,000 votes in the general.
It wasn't Santorum those states didn't like. It was Romney.
It doesn’t get anymore GOPe than Santorum, the lifelong fan of Arlen Specter, and the idiot who suffered a massive defeat, bigger than Christine O’Donnell’s, and he was the INCUMBENT.
Only Romney was worse than the union guy.