[Darren McCarty]

This was copied verbatim in full text from the Right Michigan and Republican Michigander blogs with permission of the author who is a political consultant and a friend of mine. After referencing this piece a few times in the face of claims by Romney supporting Santorum haters both here and elsewhere that Santorum competed in Michigan and won Alabama/Mississippi because of democrats, I asked Dan if I could post this here. He obliged as long as it wasn't edited.

If you have a problem with his story, he'll be happy to defend it on his site or on Right Michigan in the comments section.

I believe the claims that are made here after looking at some of his sources used with the election results compared with the results in previous general elections. Santorum's votes are coming from Repubicans, not democrats, regardless of what CNN says.

[Lazlo in PA]

Santorum for President Ping List.

FReepmail “Antoninus” to be added or removed.

[Netizen]

They asked for party affiliation before handing over the ballot, explaining that Dems could not vote for Rep Pres candidates. The Dems could only vote for local items. My question is, once in the booth, how do they know if they did or didn’t vote for the Rep candidate if they were Dems?

[Waryone]

The last person on earth who should be complaining about cross overs is Mitt Romney. He and his GOP-E liberal friends wanted open primaries to keep conservatives from winning too many delegates. This fix was supposed to give them a candidate who was more acceptable to independents.

Looks like unintended consequences rips Mitt’s best laid plans to shreds.

But one fix was more successful for Mitt. Most of the winner take all primaries are in liberal states. All the conservative Southern states are proportional contests. Mitt makes out like a sleazy fat rat again. Yes, the fix is in.

[cripplecreek]

Like grellis I'm going to try to avoid pinging you to blogs but I felt that this one was worth a ping.

[BobL]

Too bad the Dems weren’t that organized in Michigan. If it takes the Dems to help us nominate our strongest candidate (Santorum, of course), then more power to them.