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“Does he have a chance?” No
“Will Santorum surge?” No
Don’t know much about him but having watched the last few debates only - I thought he did great and wondered by he was at only 1 or 2%.
He was awesome at today’s debate. I was crying.
Santorum comes off as a poorly on TV. He just has zero “it” factor. Does not come off as a leader at all. I interviewed him in person for 20 minutes. Comes off better in person.
Doomberg came out on the bottom of my list, below Zer0.
1) his backing of Specter over Toomey in 2004
2) His continued support for earmarks.
3) His absorbtion into the Beltway culture
4) And the fact that he got his arse kicked in 2006 - as an incumbent.
Lost his home state of Pennsylvania by like 18 points last time around. It really undermines his claim that he can win PA and rust belt states. He also just doesn’t come across well. I can’t put my finger on it, but I guess he just seems too uptight and not very presidential. Finally, Santorum is sort of known as big on social issues and this election will likely be far more about the economy.
Santorum is a good man, but I don’t think he is going to see a poll boomlet like Cain and Gingrich have. Actually, I’d be thrilled to have either Santorum or Bachmann is President, but I really don’t think they have any chance. For whatever reason, they just don’t project the presidential image I guess people are looking for.
he comes across as having a chip on his shoulder—as if he’s owed public office.
Right now, he is positioning himself to be the running mate of Mitt Romney so that in case Romney gets the nomination, the frauds can come and tell us that we should support the ticket since the VP choice is that of a conservative.
Santorum is also acceptable to Karl Rove which makes him yet another crooked politician whose rhetoric is conservative but whose record is liberal.
Something is screwy with that survey. I changed some answers and it keeps putting Santorum at the top. Even changing some to liberal answers as an experiment. (I even changed answers to things like supporting Obamacare, etc and Santorum always ended up on top..)
I wonder if that site is owned by a certain campaign’s camp?
Yep, that poll is screwy. I just changed all the answers to ‘liberal’ answers and it still shows Santorum on top.
1. Ideal Theoretical Candidate (100%)
2. Rick Santorum* (74%)
He would make a great VP. He would make a great President, too, but for some reason he just didn’t make it into the top tier. I like him a lot!!
Mine says I support Santorum by 92 percent. Michele Bachmann at 84 percent and Herman Cain by 82 percent. Newt Ginrige by 54 percent. Ricardo Perry is at 18 percent. Hillary Clinton is 16 percent. Can you imagine that Ricardo Perry and Hillary Clinton are practically the same. No wonder I can’t stand Perry and finally can say he is a true LIBERAL!!!!!
I think Santorum was a good man. Karl Rove wrecked his career when he twisted his arm to endorse Arlen Specter. I think Rove and Bush told him to endorse Specter or else.
It was all downhill from there. I urged people at the time to support Santorum, because he was an excellent Senator with a good record. But the Specter endorsement finished him, and he never recovered.
Good work, Karl! How’d that work out?
Interesting - I also showed Sen. Santorum in #1 at 88% and Mr. Cain at 60% (Mr. Gingrich is also in the 80%s). It doesn’t mean I am going to switch since it is too small a number of questions to actually portray the candidates.
NO!