What about the trendlines though?
The difference may be Time. There isn’t much time left to have some other candidate rise. Newt probably can’t get much of a bump at this point, because of all the Santorum voters now, and Newt’s supporters have to decide as they go into the booth whether they want to vote for Newt at any cost, or whether they want to keep Romney out. Because of the time factor, there may be more of the latter than previously.
The Newt Voters and rhe undecided voters are going to go heavily for Santorum. And the Democrat crossovers are going to pour it on Romney, the phony hypocrite who pretends to be from Michigan.
The dynamics here do not favor Romney and I don;t care how many Rasmussen polls he pulls out. Santorum is going to win this, and it won’t be all that close.