Caucus-Win Coattails Propel Santorum into Effective Tie With Romney in California

SurveyUSA ^ | February 12, 2012 | Staff

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

4 months to the California Primary, but fresh after caucus wins in Colorado and Minnesota and in Missouri's non-binding primary, Rick Santorum draws to within a whisker of nominal frontrunner Mitt Romney, 33% for Romney, 31% for Santorum, effectively even, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for KABC-TV Los Angeles, KPIX-TV San Francisco, KGTV-TV San Diego and KFSN-TV Fresno.

Santorum leads Romney among seniors, among evangelicals, among pro-life voters, among Tea Party members, among those who say they are "very conservative," and in the Central Valley region of California.

Romney leads among women, among younger voters, among moderates, and among California's pro-choice Republican primary voters. But even among the most affluent voters, a typical Romney stronghold, Romney's advantage is just 4 points, 35% to Santorum's 31%.

Newt Gingrich, in 3rd place at 17%, gets half as many votes as the leaders, and Ron Paul, in 4th place, gets half as many votes as Gingrich.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

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The fat lady hasn't sung yet. She hasn't even cleared her throat yet. But someone just pointed her in the direction of the stage.

[cripplecreek]

Holy carp!

Michigan and California.

[Timber Rattler]

(((((PING)))))

[Lazlo in PA]

Santorum for President Ping List.

FReepmail “Antoninus” to be added or removed.

[Busko]

To a felow Pennsylvanian, we need to elect a conservative not some one who changes his ideology everytime he runs for an office. Romney is a Chameleon!

[napscoordinator]

I love this. Oh man. It is true, Santorum is going to be the nominee. This news day just gets better and better everyday.

[Lazlo in PA]

You’ll get no argument from me.

[Craftmore]

And in the Newtered camp there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

[USS Alaska]

I've mentioned before that I met Santorum in the early 90s regularly flying to DC on the early Monday morning flight and he made his bones by exposing the house check kiting scheme where the house critter would take a check {say $1,000} to the house post office, buy one stamp for 30 cents and take the rest in cash.

It was an overdraft on their house account{which they never re-payed} so it was a wink, wink, legal way to steal tax dollars.

I'm a Newt guy, but if Rick stays in contention until my vote counts, I'll have to give him another look.

[Sun]

Part of my email from Rick Santorum:

“I know what’s coming next. I saw what Mitt Romney and his team
> did to Newt Gingrich after he won South Carolina. They amassed
> millions of dollars for his campaign and his SuperPAC -
> outspending his opponents nearly 5 to 1! This month will be no
> exception. They’re going to come after us now—because Romney
> doesn’t have a clear conservative vision for America that he can
> run on.”

[RasterMaster]

Newt was correct that it’s down to a “two-man race”....he just got the most-viable alternative to Romney wrong.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/ppp-santorum-leads-romney-15-points_626728.html