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Posted on 02/20/2012 10:13:16 PM PST by Steelfish
Rick Santorum Receives Another Boost With 27 Point Lead In Texas Rick Santorum's claim to be the unifying grass-roots candidate in this year's Republican nomination contest has received another boost after a new poll placed him 27 points ahead of his rivals in conservative Texas.
Mr Santorum's emergence, particularly in the all-important Midwestern states such as Iowa and Ohio caught many pundits by surprise
By Peter Foster20 Feb 2012
The poll is yet another fillip for Mr Santorum, an evangelical Catholic with blue collar roots who has surged in the polls in recent weeks, eclipsing his fellow conservative Newt Gingrich and challenging the long-time establishment front-runner Mitt Romney.
Analysts said the Texas poll was yet further evidence that Mr Santorum was emerging as the consensus candidate of the grassroots that the moderate-liberal Mitt Romney has conspicuously failed to energise since the primary season began in January.
"Rick Santorum has cut through the clutter and emerged as not simply the non-Romney candidate, but as the most credible conservative candidate in the race," said Daron Shaw, co-director of the University of Texas/Texas Tribune.
The 'Santorum surge' has even put the former Pennsylvania senator ahead in the rust belt state of Michigan, home of Mr Romney, causing senior Republicans to question whether a Romney candidacy could survive defeat in the state where Mr Romney's father was governor for most of the 1960s.
The latest PPP Poll showed Mr Santorum still four points clear on the back of his conservative support, with 48 per cent of voters saying his beliefs are similar to theirs, compared with just 32 per cent for Mr Romney, a Mormon management consultant.
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And milt has already been running ads here for a couple weeks now. Not carpet-bombing level yet, but definitely out there.
The end of Newt. He has to win every southern state.
About time he endorses Rick...that is if he wants to beat Mitt.
But that won’t happen. Everything is lining up for a brokered convention.
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And this is relevant how? We don’t even have the new districts drawn for legislative and congressional races. The proposed May 29 primary date is not firm. It could be later. Who knows what the Republican presidential nomination race will look like by the time Texas actually holds a primary?
santorum needs to stop going with the religious tone- talk about how he will fix the economy and not about anything related to god if he wants to win
Funny. The polls in all key Primary states, including his 4 points off from Obummer head to head, seems to show you wrong. There isn’t one thing you can point to that backs your argument.
It’s already too late, the narrative has already begun.
The people that get upset over this won't vote for him anyway. And you should look at the purpose of this forum as stated by the owner.
I think Romney’s and Santorum’s names will be tossed out automatically at brokered convention.
Jeb Bush, Christie, and Daniels wont accept the nomination because they only have 2 months to campaign against the Obama mean machine.
Ron Paul wont be nominated.
The only one left who has the chance to go against Obama machine in Sep and October is NEWT. And Obama machine and liberals are only afraid of Newt because the guy can articulate the truth and expose Obama.
And why brokered convention? Because neither Romney nor Satorum will get 51% or 1144 delegated to be nominated.
I think Romney delegates will hate Santorum so much but majority might vote for Newt. The same goes with Santorum delegates. Palin, Berry, Cain, will campaign for Newt. And the party elites will finally realize Newt is their best chance left. They rather swallow their pride to accept President Newt than losing both Senate and the House to Democrats.
4 more years of Obama we will line up for soup kitchen like the Great Depression!
Democrats & their liberal judge friends are causing havoc with new Republican drawn redistricting maps.
Mitt has been carpet bombing Santorum here in AZ. Couldn't watch the news without 23 or 4 commercials. We turned it off.
Mitt romney is scum of the lowest order.
Mr Santorum was emerging as the consensus candidate of the grassroots that the moderate-liberal Mitt Romney has conspicuously failed to energise (English don’t recognize the letter “Z”.)
Mr Santorum was emerging as the consensus candidate of the grassroots moderate-conservative...
Mr Santorum was emerging as the consensus candidate of the grassroots moderate-conservative...
Ditto, DH!
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