Santorum Opens Wide Lead Over Romney

[John Manning]

FILE UNDER: A More and More Likely Disaster for the GOP in November

A new Public Policy Polling survey shows Rick Santorum
has pulled ahead of Mitt Romney among Republican voters
nationally, 38% to 23%.

They are followed by Newt Gingrich at 17% and Ron Paul at 13%.

A key reason for Santorum's surge is his own high level of
popularity: 64% of voters see him favorably to only 22% with
a negative one.

But the other, and maybe more important, reason is that
Republicans are significantly souring on both Romney and Gingrich.

Romney's favorability is barely above water at 44% to 43% while Gingrich
is upside down at 42% to 44%.

Most interesting: "If Gingrich dropped out 58% of his supporters
say they would move to Santorum, while 22% would go to Romney and
17% to Paul. Santorum gets to 50% in the Newt free field to 28%
for Romney and 15% for Paul."

Linked here:
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/02/11/santorum_opens_wide_lead_over_romney.html

[Great Sage Itchy]

In article <D4WdnUb2kr2hAqvS...@giganews.com>, John
Manning <jrob...@terra.com.br> wrote:

> Santorum

Santorum could be the next President of the USA. Our first gay
president!

[John Baker]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:03:03 -0800, Great Sage Itchy <g...@itchy.com>
wrote:

Personally, I think Santorum has even less chance of beating Obama
than Romney has. But then, I've been surprised by the stupidity of the
American voter more than once in the past...