To the degree the Santorum votes came from Newt, they were not going back, they had already abandoned Newt and were looking for another choice.
If Santorum was going to be taken down, I wish it would have happened before Iowa.
I disagree. As the race went on and Newt started to slip, people shifted support. Had Mr. Sweater Vest’s proclivity to lie and the damning information about his fondness for Keynesian economics come to light from the start, those who weren’t necessarily in Newt’s corner but definitely not in Mitt’s would have turned more strongly to Newt.