{"id":12501,"date":"2011-12-28T12:14:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T17:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12501"},"modified":"2011-12-28T12:14:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T17:14:01","slug":"more-good-news-for-santorum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12501\/more-good-news-for-santorum\/","title":{"rendered":"More Good News for Santorum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Lowry has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/286702\/santorumrsquos-first-look-rich-lowry\" target=\"_blank\">an excellent column<\/a> today about the real possibility of Santorum finally catching fire. And Lowry picks up on a too-little-noticed thematic element, in which Santorum ties together his social issues with his economic positions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>[H]e\u2019s not a thoughtless culture warrior, in it for the bombast.  Santorum links his social conservatism to the struggles of the working  class in one of the few thematic departures in a Republican primary that  has been more about personalities and past heterodoxies than  substantive differences.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And Public Policy Polling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicpolicypolling.com\/main\/2011\/12\/paul-maintains-his-lead.html\" target=\"_blank\">finds<\/a> that while Santorum hasn&#8217;t rocketed to the front yet, he is in the best position to catch fire late:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum continue to all be  clustered right around 10%. Santorum actually has the best favorability  numbers of any of the candidates at +27 (56\/29). He&#8217;s also the most  frequent second choice of voters at 14%.\u00a0 Whether he can translate any  of this into a top 3 finish remains to be seen, but he&#8217;s someone who  would seem to have the potential to grow his support in the final week&#8230;. And given all the strange twists and turns to this point don&#8217;t be  surprised to see yet another surprise in the final week&#8230;and based on  the innards of this poll the person best positioned to provide that  surprise in the closing stretch is Santorum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These last six days will be most interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Lowry has an excellent column today about the real possibility of Santorum finally catching fire. And Lowry picks up on a too-little-noticed thematic element, in which Santorum ties together his social issues with his economic positions: [H]e\u2019s not a thoughtless culture warrior, in it for the bombast. Santorum links his social conservatism to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3022,3262,2795],"class_list":["post-12501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-lowry","tag-public-policy-polling","tag-santorum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12502,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12501\/revisions\/12502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}