And you well know polls are a snapshot in time and it is seven months until the election and as the old saw says seven months is a lifetime in politics.
I don’t know who you back, all I know is I would prefer someone who truly opposes the progressives, and could and would work for conservatism, and Romney and Santorum ain’t it.
So, go ahead and live your life by what the polls tell you to think.
I don’t trust the polls, but at least they are some measure. Your belief that Newt is electable and Santorum is not is based on nothing more than a wish. Nothing in the primary has shown that Newt could win an election. He can’t beat two unelectable candidates. In some states, he can’t even beat Ron Paul.
Telling people to drop Santorum because he “can’t win”, with no evidence, so we should instead support Gingrich, who has proven he can’t win primaries, and for whom there has never been any evidence he could beat Obama, is an unsupportable argument.
Polls aren’t facts, but the facts aren’t good for Gingrich either. Of course, the fact is that Romney is going to win the nomination, and either Romney or Obama will be President next January. But I’ll suspend disbelief in a Santorum win until it is impossible, before I give into the reality. That point long passed for Gingrich (who is polling 3rd in North Carolina, and not polling first in any state remaining (he is 3rd in Texas as well).