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Santorum surges into the lead (National poll Santorum 38%, Romney 23%)
Public Policy Polling ^ | 02/11/2012 | Public Policy Polling

Posted on 02/11/2012 6:19:11 AM PST by Rational Thought

Riding a wave of momentum from his trio of victories on Tuesday Rick Santorum has opened up a wide lead in PPP's newest national poll. He's at 38% to 23% for Mitt Romney, 17% for Newt Gingrich, and 13% for Ron Paul.

Part of the reason for Santorum's surge is his own high level of popularity. 64% of voters see him favorably to only 22% with a negative one. But the other, and maybe more important, reason is that Republicans are significantly souring on both Romney and Gingrich. Romney's favorability is barely above water at 44/43, representing a 23 point net decline from our December national poll when he was +24 (55/31). Gingrich has fallen even further. A 44% plurality of GOP voters now hold a negative opinion of him to only 42% with a positive one. That's a 34 point drop from 2 months ago when he was at +32 (60/28).

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012polls; election; happydance; mittromney; newt; polls; ricksantorum; santorum; santorum2012
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To: BarnacleCenturion

You know you need 1144 delegates to win right? If no one has that many then we get a brokered convention. Probably the best thing for us at this point.


201 posted on 02/11/2012 9:03:10 AM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
I painfully watched the Santorum “speech” (babbling) at CPAC yesterday. Talk about melodramatic, boring and pointless! And this is the guy the base is supposedly falling all over themselves to vote for in the next primary??! (Well, at least this week anyway.)

But, back to those incoherent mumblings from Santorum, (he had the audacity to call a speech) even my dog begged me to turn the channel! My wife left the room and I opened a cookbook to find a good recipe for beef jerky.

And then came Newt Gingrich.......what a contrast! And the electorate must have the attention span of a 3 year old, to ignore what Newt has to say, or his ability to say it! It was nothing short of awe inspiring and electrifying! It's embarrassing to watch this ship of fools who calls themselves the CONservative base, so caught up in their arrogant opinions of themselves, turn their backs on the most intellectual solution and most obvious professional who is qualified and capable to fix this mess, only to go for a moronic dolt like Santorum with totally blind abandon.

202 posted on 02/11/2012 9:03:59 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Do you have any idea why?
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Didn’t ask me but because Santorum isn’t black.


203 posted on 02/11/2012 9:04:38 AM PST by Irenic
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To: C. Edmund Wright

We’ve been in trouble for a very long time.


204 posted on 02/11/2012 9:05:15 AM PST by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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To: SteveAustin
1) Santorum’s Catholic. Protestants have pastors, Catholics have fathers.

2) His “dork optics” have just carried him to double any other candidates polling numbers in this poll.

3) Yea, I hate the sweater vest thing; it's dorky. He looks a lot better in a jacket.

205 posted on 02/11/2012 9:05:56 AM PST by GulfBreeze
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To: GulfBreeze

You SHOULD stick to your own opinion, in regards to critique. Mine is perfectly OK in it’s own right.

You might need a ladder to help yourself off of your “high horse” though, I would not want you to hurt yourself.


206 posted on 02/11/2012 9:07:45 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: Lady Lucky
" The dork optics are overwhelming. I watched his speech with the daughter and wife behind him, and I cringed. They forced a few smiles and then defaulted to grim American Gothic. The daughter with her small head on enormous body, her face puckered up with the same dyspeptic look her father sports most of the time — “I just swallowed a live squid!” — and the I-smell-something sneer on the wife — these things unfortunately matter a great deal, usually on a subliminal level. "

You sound just like the MSM did when they went after Sarah Palin's kids.... YOU HAVE NO SHAME !!!

207 posted on 02/11/2012 9:09:44 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

PF, Rick gave a speech near Scranton in October, before his maddening schedule peaked, and there was nary a stumble or stammer. 45 minutes. NO prompter! He is fighting fatigue now, but he is NOT stopping, and I thought that he delivered a masterful speech yesterday, through it all. *Extremely* powerful message. Bob


208 posted on 02/11/2012 9:09:45 AM PST by alstewartfan (27 of 36 of Romney's judicial appointments were DEMOCRATS!!!!!)
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To: American Constitutionalist

No, YOU have no shame, and I don’t see any need to defend myself against such a ridiculous charge. HAND.


209 posted on 02/11/2012 9:11:40 AM PST by Lady Lucky (Public education -- government cheese for the brain.)
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To: GulfBreeze

No, my job is pointing out the obvious to those who somehow manage to miss it.


210 posted on 02/11/2012 9:12:39 AM PST by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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To: EGPWS

Santorum/Allen West


211 posted on 02/11/2012 9:12:52 AM PST by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
" What is it with you Santorum supporters that preclude even a third grade reading comprehension level "

I see that snobbery is alive and well among the Newt supporters....

212 posted on 02/11/2012 9:12:58 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: alstewartfan

You’re right, Mondale was much closer to the truth on both counts.


213 posted on 02/11/2012 9:13:17 AM PST by Lady Lucky (Public education -- government cheese for the brain.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Time to rally around Rick I guess.


214 posted on 02/11/2012 9:13:46 AM PST by CrosscutSaw (Palin/West after brokered GOP convention in 2012.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Time to rally around Rick I guess.


215 posted on 02/11/2012 9:14:04 AM PST by CrosscutSaw (Palin/West after brokered GOP convention in 2012.)
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To: alstewartfan

Give me a break.....Santorum is simply Sarah Palin in a Sweater Vest as far as you are concerned. There is no point in discussing it with you. So I won’t even try.


216 posted on 02/11/2012 9:15:12 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Really? You are on an opinion board telling me to stick to my own opinions rather than pointing out how inane your opinions are about other people’s opinions. (Even though their opinions aren’t what you made them out to be in the first place.)

Just how high does my horse look from up there... I mean up there on your high-horse?


217 posted on 02/11/2012 9:17:02 AM PST by GulfBreeze
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To: Lady Lucky

>> I’d sure rather vote for Santorum than skip voting for president because Romney’s on the ballot; but Santorum is just not going to win the nomination. Of that I am certain.

Well, we’ll see how Santorum looks 2 weeks and $15 mil of Mitt’s TV money later. There is certainly abundant material for Mitt’s Death Star to work on: Santorum’s education scam, Santorum’s PAC scam, his union support etc.

Too bad Pawlenty or Perry bailed out so fast, by now they would be getting the second look for sure


218 posted on 02/11/2012 9:17:30 AM PST by ubaldus
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
" [Santorum would be Obama’s worst nightmare.]

ROFLMAO!

Seriously! what ever it is you are smoking, you might try to find a 12 step program somewhere to help you get off of it. You are hallucinating uncontrollably again! "

Go on with your PSYCHOBABBLE ways.... once a upon a time England underestimated 13 little colonies that many people thought had no chance at all against the world's super power at that time and actually win, but God had other plans..
219 posted on 02/11/2012 9:17:54 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
Newt and Mitt so taken with their hatred for each other

There's an implied equivalency in that, yet I hear Romney was overwhelmingly more negative in both quantity and quality.

220 posted on 02/11/2012 9:18:16 AM PST by Lady Lucky (Public education -- government cheese for the brain.)
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