{"id":12516,"date":"2011-12-29T12:10:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T17:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12516"},"modified":"2011-12-29T12:10:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T17:10:29","slug":"can-santorum-continue-into-nh-and-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12516\/can-santorum-continue-into-nh-and-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Santorum Continue Into NH and SC?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In one of a spate<\/a> of stories<\/a> today<\/a> about Rick Santorum’s surge in Iowa, Byron York<\/a> notes in print the same potential drawback I’ve been hearing from all across the conservative spectrum:<\/p>\n

A number of commentators have observed that even if Santorum flies high in Iowa, he faces trouble ahead.\u00a0 That is true.\u00a0 In the RealClearPolitics average of polls in New Hampshire, Santorum is in sixth place, with 3.8 percent of voters.\u00a0 In the same average of polls in South Carolina, he is in seventh place, with 2.7 percent.\u00a0 So yes, a Santorum surge could be short-lived.\u00a0 But his answer would likely be: First things first; do well in Iowa and see what happens then.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The answer to that is that Santorum actually has done a lot of the same, or at least very similar, nuts-and-bolts organizing work in those next two states as he did in Iowa. In South Carolina, for example, where well-liked conservative former U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett is Santorum’s state chair, Santorum has county organizations in 42 of the 46 counties — by far the most of any candidate (according to the Santorum campaign), with Gingrich reportedly in second with 33 counties organized. And in NH, according to the Santorum campaign, the Pennsylvanian has more “endorsements” than any candidate other than Romney.<\/p>\n

If this campaign has shown anything thus far, it is that the electorate is very volatile and that support for a single candidate can double, triple, quadruple, even quintuple in the matter of just a few weeks. It happened for Cain, Bachmann, Perry, and Gingrich. Is there any doubt that if Santorum does really well in Iowa, his “flavor of the month” status could quickly boost him elsewhere?<\/p>\n

Finally, as I was writing this, Fox News just reported that Rasmussen is out with a new poll that confirms the CNN poll: Santorum in third, with 16 percent….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In one of a spate of stories today about Rick Santorum’s surge in Iowa, Byron York notes in print the same potential drawback I’ve been hearing from all across the conservative spectrum: A number of commentators have observed that even if Santorum flies high in Iowa, he faces trouble ahead.\u00a0 That is true.\u00a0 In the […]<\/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":[645,2725,85,2795],"class_list":["post-12516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-byron-york","tag-iowa","tag-rasmussen","tag-santorum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516","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=12516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12519,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions\/12519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}