Santorum did have a good night Thursday, he had two doubles and a single.
But Newt had two grand slams.
If Santorum had “won” the debate, it would have translated to a big bump above what the polls were showing, but his bump was small, big enough to get him past Ron Paul (for which I am grateful) but not much more....he went from 14% in the polls to an actual 17%. Right direction, but he needs something bigger.
Which is actually no bump at all. When he had 14%, there were like 25% undecideds. He got very few of those. Remember, there's no "undecided" ballot on election day.