[Yankee]

Erick Erickson on CNN said that his contacts in DC tell him the establishment and some evangelical groups want to pump enough money into Santorum’s campaign to keep him in the race.

They have no expectation that he can win.

They want him in as a spoiler to block Newt and benefit Romney.

[2111USMC]

Doesn't sound very smart to me. Santorum is fading. It would only take one more debate performance like his last one to end up in single digits.

[rwfromkansas]

I am concerned about NV and see that as a likely loss. McCain won in 2008 even losing NV, but keep in mind, he also won in NH.

That said, he won SC and FL as well. I think with SC and FL wins hopefully under his belt, maybe even NV could be somewhat of a race and he can win enough of the others to still win despite not having won NH and almost assuredly losing NV.

I think Gingrich can and will win, but it won’t be as easy as SC unfortunately in all the states.

[Springfield Reformer]

...some evangelical groups want to pump enough money into Santorum’s campaign to keep him in the race.

They have no expectation that he can win.

They want him in as a spoiler to block Newt and benefit Romney.

That makes no sense. Why would evangelicals be covertly boosting Romney? Rank and file evangelicals are sharply at odds with Romney on multiple levels. Does not compute.