Two polls, one in Missouri, and one in Ohio, showed that one-on-one, Santorum easily beats Romney in those states, while one-on-one, Gingrich is statistically tied with Romney.
Other polls show that Santorum is in striking distance of Obama, while Gingrich trails by 13 points.
Santorum didn’t even campaign the last three days in Florida, and Gingrich couldn’t get within 15 points of Romney.
In fact, Gingrich sucked all the oxygen out of Florida, got all the conservative focus, got all the headlines, and yet Romney ended up getting higher than his polling.
And even if every single Santorum voter had instead voted for Gingrich, Gingrich couldn’t beat Romney in Florida.
I’m not telling Gingrich people to switch their votes. But I’m tired of Gingrich folks proclaiming that he can beat Romney and Obama, and Santorum can’t, so Santorum is evil for running for Office.
If Santorum was hammered with the same amount of negative and FALSE ads that Newt was, Santorum would have lost by probably even more. Romney’s lies WILL catch up to him (”resigned in disgrace” is an absolute, bald-faced LIE and that is the main angle that worked for Romney here). He cannot win the presidency if he continues down this path of lying. Conservatives will abandon him and if he pulled anything like that on Obama, the media will destroy him with it.
Newt with Romney’s money is by far a stronger candidate than Romney with Romney’s money. Romney has lost states despite outspending his rivals. Newt has won states while being outspent.
Romney is POISON in the general election. Absolute POISON. The Bain Capital stuff alone will destroy him in an economy racked with unemployment.