Further to “Did ID-friendly Rick Santorum actually win Iowa?, here are some subsequent poll numbers:
South Carolina Poll: Romney: 27%, Santorum: 24%, Gingrich: 18%
Evidently, Santorum is more popular than previous coverage would lead one to expect.
Just in: Mark Steyn on how Santorum got to be clsssified as weird:
Weirdly enough, this crazy weird behavior is in line with the advice of the American Pregnancy Association, which says that “it is important for your family members to spend time with the baby” and “help them come to terms with their loss.”
No, the surge probably won’t last, and we’re mainly interested in seeing whether the ID-friendly Santorum Amendment to the No Child left Behind will come up. And if so, whether it will have any effect one way or the other.
Here’s Santorum on the Santorum Amendment
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Meanwhile, a timely warning for Santorum:
They hate him with that special ire reserved for his virtues, not his vices.
They will go after him not just to defeat him, but to smear his good name, to associate it with their own muck, to take a decent and honorable man and try literally to make his name mean mud.
True. Attacks on a candidate for his vices have a certain “You lucky dog! You don’t deserve all that and public office too!” air about them. By contrast, nothing beats the cold fury felt by some against the guy who just did the job right, took nothing but his pay cheque, and went home.
Hey, the mugging is just beginning now. Realistically, a weakness is that he takes people seriously whom the “winners” deem road kill.
Also: Rasmussen, Gallup, show Santorum has strong chance. Krauthammer calls him “worthy challenger.” Curious that, however it turns out, no one saw it coming.
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