[RFEngineer]

“Funny, I didn’t see Santorum campaigning much in Massachusetts, Nevada, or Vermont. Maybe he was afraid to campaign in those states, and just wanted to have a ready excuse for losing them?”

Seriously? How’d Newt do in those states?

[Yashcheritsiy]

Seriously? How’d Newt do in those states?

Not well - but the point, which you're apparently not capable of grasping, is that what's good for the goose is good for the gander. If it applies to Newt for not campaigning in states he wasn't doing well in to begin with, then the same must apply to Santorum.

[red flanker]

Seriously? How’d Newt do in those states?

Newt had to encounter what establishment Rick never did: a week of false smears from the likes of Eliott Abrams and other GOP-E insiders. Those smears were carried throughout the media and in effect, a free multi-million dollar negative ad campaign. Even with those hurricane forces against him, Newt finished second in Florida and turnout in counties he won were up sharply as in South Carolina.

Newt arrived in Nevada days after Rick and Ron Paul and was expected to lose both to Mitt and Ron. Instead Newt finished second in Nevada, but the press played up Mitt winning (with a 90% Mormon vote) instead of Newt overtaking Ron Paul and beating expectations. Nevada was a case where Ron and Rick spent more time than Newt and came in third and fourth respectively.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Yes, that’s pretty funny, Although Gingrich did take 2nd in Nevada, because that was while he was still plummeting but hadn’t hit bottom yet. He didn’t get any delegates there.

Santorum got 4 delegates in Vermont, but while he came in 2nd in Massachussetts, he just missed taking delegates from Romney — because Gingrich got just enough votes to pull Santorum below the cut-off.