“Why can’t Santorum do well up north against Mitt?”
1. union country
2. abortion country
3. liberal country
4. socialist country
5. very big government country
6. nominally religious
Mitt is far less offensive than Santorum I would think than Santorum.
“Mitt is far less offensive than Santorum I would think than Santorum.”
Iowa’s a purple state, and is not that far off from Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc.
The only state that Mitt is polling above 25 percent is Michigan.
A Santorum tie here, puts him around 15-18 percent nationally, maybe more than that. Given that he’s from PA, that shifts more votes to the rust belt for Santorum, so I’d call it a wash, everywhere but Michigan.