“Florida: Mitt-36, Newt-24, Santorum-16
South Carolina: Mitt-30, Newt-23, Santorum-19
Santorum’s bounce out of Iowa has already peaked and started to fade in N.H..”
Exactly right. Newt is ahead of Santorum in the majority of the states and nationally. We need to get behind Newt and stop Romney. GO NEWT!
Santorum won’t play so well north of South, but Newt plays everywhere. Romney has dropped ten points in 5 days in NH, so finally he gets some of what he has been giving out. I look for Newt to pick up steam going into South Carolina, and to my disappointment, I believe Rick Perry is coming into SC as a spoiler and now hurts Newt.
They both have superb verbal firing abilities when their engines are running, and attract the same audience of voters on that count, but Rick’s campaign was unhelpful in rehabilitating him from the early debate fails, and no one wants to listen any longer to a speech risk repeating itself, or needs the anxiety such an experience caused with the clock running. Rick Perry needs to support and finance and go to work for Newt, IMHO. RP would be very happy working with Newt.