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As expected, Rick Santorum’s extremely close second place finish in Iowa gives him a noticeable bump in the polls. Gallup’s national tracking poll found Santorum at just 6 percent in its tracking polling from 12/26-1/2. Now, just two days later, with the tracking poll including some post-Iowa numbers, Santorum is up to 11 percent in Gallup’s polling from 12/28-1/4. That is more than double what Santorum’s support had been only a week ago. His support in the tracking poll is also likely to increase over the next few days as the poll is based on only post-Iowa data.
Conversely Newt Gingrich’s numbers suffered as a result of his disappointing fourth place finish in the caucuses. Over the same time period, his support dropped from 23 to now only 19 percent.
Santorum is also experiencing a bit of a surge in New Hampshire as well. The Suffolk University tracking poll released January 2nd had Santorum at only 3 percent. Their poll out today has him at 8 percent. That is some impressive gains but Santorum is starting in a deep hole in New Hampshire with less than a week to go. He will need to gain almost two percent of support a day just to beat Ron Paul for second place.
The Iowa caucuses has been a boon for the Santorum campaign, it just might not be enough for a candidate that is building from a very small base of support and campaign structure to begin with.
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Iowa “bump.” Hmmm. Sounds like something mildly erotic that R.C.s might engage in.
heh… not sure if I wanna ponder that too long!!!
Eh? Of course, lil Ricky’ll get some mileage outta this. Thanks for the news ‘n all but I think the sanctimonious Grifter’s not going anywhere much further down this race track. Time will tell…
Doesn’t look like all the bishops are getting a “bump” in their trousers over Santorum. But because he’s pro-fetus, he’ll still get their support.
Warning, HuffPo.
It won’t be that long.
Some R.C. bishops have gotten ‘bumps.’
What about Santorum is not that ‘long,’ and how do you know?
Why doesn’t he get a medal? He didn’t have them aborted! It wasn’t even man-on-dog sex!
He’s been called many things, but never Tripod.
Jon wrote: The Iowa caucuses has been a boon for the Santorum campaign, it just might not be enough for a candidate that is building from a very small base of support and campaign structure to begin with.
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Santorum’s numbers in New Hampshire DOUBLED………. From 4% to 8%. Apparently he “got that” from Gingrich.
FWIW, I heard Santorum has very small hands.
Enough of this innuendo (oops there I go again), lest we scare more sober people off the thread.
Also, FWIW, I read that onew of the many “peculiar” thinkgs about Lil Ricky, no pun intended, is that he supports state’s having the right to prohibit contraception????????
How the HELL are you gonna “police” that????? He also says states should/could outlaw sodomy. Now, is he talking about man-on-man or the other very popular activity?????
Which, is BTW, a form of contraception.
I didn’t a know you wasa Italian.
NO sober people here after after 4:30 anymore
OK, OK. So it’s Mittens for POTUS and Frothy Mix for VPOTUS. Does anybody really care? Does it matter?
Thought I saw recently that he used to be called the stupidest man in congress. Now that’s quite an accomplishment.
Two yankees on the GOP ticket???? Won’ play in Dixie. The land of cotton. Ec, etec, etc.
Then I need to catch up. Got back from shopping chores at 4 and haven’t started the cocktail hour yet.
“Now, is he talking about man-on-man or the other very popular activity?”
All of the above, I’m sure. Newt will surely endorse that action. :)
That’s true. He took the title from Dan Quayle and held it until he lost re-election.
Reminds me of a great joke:
“My dad was the town drunk…………And we lived in Chicago.”
nominating a person so marginal is a good way of clearing the field for the real choice of the elites, which is Barack Obama. Lesser evil equal manufacturing consent. They did this with Harry Reid and Andrew Cuomo too. I wont play. I wont be herded.
That’s why God created fortified wine.
My mother’s home town was Johnstown, PA. I took her, and my then 10-year old son, to visit in 1990. There were literally 2 churches and 2 bars on every 4 corner intersection.
So maybe Chicago wins on a total pop basis, but Johnstown might give it a run on a per capita basis.
Now you’re behind.
Catch up woman.
Any Port in a port.
I agree, on all your points. Just another form of kabuki to play the 99ers.
“You can teach a flea to do everything you can teach a congressman to do.”
Mark Twain
So much snark potential in that headline.
You need to catch up, both on the comments and on the cocktail hour. *g*
“I agree, on all your points”
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I don’t usually HAVE a point. Certainly not one of my own. BUt it’s nice of you to find one just the same.
Ooops, that was for Dameocrat @ 20, and I haven’t even started drinking yet.
30 comments and no one has asked if his bump is from a venereal disease?
Not this rc.
I would think not since he appears to think it’s a sin to have sex unless you’re planning to make a baby.
If you guys can’t be serious, I’m leaving. Besides, I’m pissed that eCAHN and ncg stole my “innuendo is an Italian homosexual” joke.
So? How does that connect with not getting a sexually transmitted disease??
I see you caught up on the comments. Now about that cocktail hour…
If Santorum got a STD, I’m sure it was from a public men’s room, prolly one at an airport.
…which makes it all the more likely that he ignores every puritanical dictate he spews.
Which was why I was so careful to use capital letters and periods in between. Didn’t want to risk insulting you.
A side effect of the frothy mix, perhaps?
I thought it was Italian for Preparation H
No cocktails allowed while I’m working. And as you can tell by my presence here, I’m working very hard.
I thought Santorum hung out at dog pounds and kennels…
No, it’s RC Latin for something, uh, unmentionable.
Once scared off a wingnut troll wrt something like that. Don’t remember the details, but it was during normal office hours, the troll was persistent, thread was something about welfare or unemployment insurance & therefore people not working hard to make a living. I asked troll why, if s/he worked to hard to make a living, s/he had time to hang out on a lefty blog during working hours…
Hmmm. Dog POUNDS?
heh… think I remember that one! At least, it’s a riposte that’s been used here now & again in such troll-commenting situations. Usually the troll disappears for a while… whoopsie… busted!
whatever gets lil Ricky through the nite… is aw-right…
I’m also fond of asking wingnut trolls at dinner hour why they’re hanging out here instead of dining at Per Se. That also usually makes them disappear.
Speaking of wingnut trolls, guessing that since none have shown up on this thread, Santorum hasn’t organized his 28,000 voters from Iowa to fan out & invade the anti-santorum threads. What a pity.
It does appear that the frothy mixture doesn’t have any trolls to defend his “honor.” more’s the pity…
I have told you, though, that I have family members who are friends with Santorum?? shudder… same branch of the family who also know W. gah
Thanksgiving must be fun. Not.
On edit. Introduce them to FDL. We’ll take good care of them.
Oh, so now you don’t think I’m important enough to get capitalized? Grrrr!
I’m half-Italian. Don’t make me call the Anti-Defamation League! (I might get a “number not in service” message lol.)
We all have our shames to bear. I have a friend who socializes with Ann (The Man) Coulter. Sheesh.
We mostly agree not to discuss politics. However, I was *somewhat* heartened to learn that my rightwing fundie family members are kinda-sorta awakening to the fact that ALL pols are bought off 1%ers who are not working for *any* 99%ers’ better interests. It’s a small step…
That said, my relative who’s friends with Santorum tends to be very easily *distracted* by the usual wedge issues. When I last saw them, they were freaking out about some alleged section in some military-funding legislation that purported to permit – wait for it!!! – bestiality!! Not kidding. I have NO IDEA if such a thing is in any legislation (I asked: isn’t ALL leg ONLY about military funding??? ark ark). But they were *convinced* that this clause existed, and they were massively bent out of shape bc John McCain voted in favor of the legislation.
Of course, it’s purported to be some hugely ginormous leg. so who knows if this “bestiality” clause even exists in it.
But they were hopping mad about THAT… when I said something like “but how much is thing gonna cost us a taxpayers????” … I got ye olde conservative BLANK STARE. Like: who *cares* how much it’s gonna cost outta my tax dollars… I’m just *insanely* angry bc it permits man on beast action (supposedly).
Shee… conservatives (and more often these days than not, Democratic voters, as well): easily distracted by “shiny objects.”
That’s my biggest beef w/ my relatives. So easily manipulated by incredibly stupid stuff.
Is the bump big enough to knock of Gingrich and Huntsman is the qeuestion?
Top 2 in the polls are Romney and Paul, who will be number 3. Romney gets over a third, Paul gets a fifth, and Santorum, Huntsman and Gingrich all appear to get pretty close to one tenth. One of the bottom 3 needs to break out. With the cumulative total of the Bachmann and Perry in single digits it’s hard to predict where they pull support from except each other. Most of Romney and Paul support appears pretty solid.
I hear ya. My friend and I war over politics all the time, and nothing gets him going like a sex scandal. He’s a truly brilliant, multi-talented guy (and my veterinarian for almost 40 years), but I just can’t get him to leave the team politics thing behind long enough to understand that it is about corps vs, regular people. (He thinks HE’S a corp cuz he employs a couple dozen people lol.)