It’s not just Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota Republicans who are inclined to back Rick Santorum these days. Democratic firm Public Policy Polling analyzes its latest poll:
Riding a wave of momentum from his trio of victories on Tuesday Rick Santorum has opened up a wide lead in PPP’s newest national poll. He’s at 38% to 23% for Mitt Romney, 17% for Newt Gingrich, and 13% for Ron Paul.
Part of the 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 44/43, representing a 23 point net decline from our December national poll when he was +24 (55/31). Gingrich has fallen even further. A 44% plurality of GOP voters now hold a negative opinion of him to only 42% with a positive one. That’s a 34 point drop from 2 months ago when he was at +32 (60/28).
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The best thing Romney might have going for him right now is Gingrich’s continued presence in the race. 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.
Santorum is still trading at only around 20% on Intrade. I think the time has come to place a bet.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYet among all voters, the numbers are vastly different (according to FOX news) :
The president’s advantage widens against the other GOP contenders. Obama leads Rick Santorum by 12 points (50-38 percent).
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNice cherry-picking of the polls, hughman. Well done.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseROFL I quoted what the poll (and FOX news) said. How you consider that "cherry picking", unless you don't know what cherry-picking means, is bizarre to say the least.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIf Santorum is the nominee we are doomed in November. He's a one dimensional candidate with no executive experience. And his candidacy will ignite a conflagration beneath the left wing abortion industry base, and will not sufficiently motivate the Reagan coalition (economic conservatives, defense hawks, and social conservatives). Sadly, we have a very weak field of candidates.Bill Kristol is right; we're doomed.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAwesome! That's just where Reagan was before destroying Carter.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThat is, until today when Romney won both the CPAC and Maine votes.
Looks like Mittmentum is back.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseGood luck Rick. Embrace the tea party. External Link
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse4 Head to head polls in Feb. 3 by Rasmussen. Obama +4, +2, Rick +1
1 poll by Fox - Obama by 12.
The article showed huge momentum in the PPP poll within the GOP. And you (ahem) cherry-picked one head to head poll to argue Rick is way behind Obama.
Rasmussen begs to differ.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI didn't cherry-pick anything. I posted the FOX poll because it was the first one I saw and I figured when it came from a Republican company like FOX, people like you would be less likely to whine about it being biased. Guess I was wrong. So apparently even FOX is now part of the "liberal media".
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI'll give you the benefit of the doubt that the FOX poll was the first (and only apparently) poll you happened to see.
But now you have been shown that Rasmussen's MULTIPLE polls show something that invalidates your original argument.
Or are you standing by it still....(i.e. Rick is not at all popular in a head to head with Obama)
For if your argument was based only on FOX's poll - and you now ignore the additional evidence presented - then you do fall into the cherry-picking to make a point group
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseLet's face it. All the GOP candidates have mud on their shoes. External Link
NO NANNY STATERS NEED APPLY! Conservatives to the GOP: Okay, in the words of Ronald Reagan, "Trust but verify!" And fight back when the lies start coming from the left.
Whether it is Mitt, Rick, or Newt, we need to get them elected and we need to watch them all the time. As Grover Norquist noted at CPAC: he real work will be in Congress. All we need the President to do is sign conservative bills when they cross his desk, pick conservative judges, and not screw up foreign policy.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWe will lose if we nominate this control freak. Santorum is not qualified to be POTUS.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseGo Rick!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI suggest we all wait to see how well Santorum holds up to coming torrent of negative ads from Romney and supporting Super-Pacs. One thing going for Santorum is that he is less likely to take the same fire that Newt did from conservative venues like NR and Fox at the same time as the Romney assault happens.
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