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[the hill]S. carol. poll shows paul in 3rd. santorum plummets

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IonusX

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santorum and ron paul have switched places and then some in this south carolina poll. romney sits @ 29%, gingrich @ 25% and paul hot on both there heels at 20%. santorum has fallen to 7% and perry sits at 9%.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/polls/204019-poll-south-carolina-getting-tight
this marks exactly what msot were predicted. santorums good result in Iowa was a fluke. and gingrich will soon fall off to once the serial hypocracy ad hits south Carolina.
oh santorum.. welcome to the rock bottom..
 
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I don't really follow this stuff too much, but wasn't it pretty clear from the start the only place Santorum would do well was Iowa?
 
AyashiKaibutsu said:
I don't really follow this stuff too much, but wasn't it pretty clear from the start the only place Santorum would do well was Iowa?
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I'm not convinced that was even clear except for maybe a couple days before the caucuses. Santorum will be a memory pretty quickly along with Perry and hopefully Newt.
 
xBiffx said:
I'm not convinced that was even clear except for maybe a couple days before the caucuses. Santorum will be a memory pretty quickly along with Perry and hopefully Newt.
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and huntsman..
its a two man race now romney and paul. opual has been clipping t his heels for a while now. and perry and newt arent on the ballot on at least 2 states. huntsman isnt on arizona i think.. which is pretty well damaging as arizona has the largest number of delegates
 
IonusX said:
santorum and ron paul have switched places and then some in this south carolina poll. romney sits @ 29%, gingrich @ 25% and paul hot on both there heels at 20%. santorum has fallen to 7% and perry sits at 9%.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/polls/204019-poll-south-carolina-getting-tight
this marks exactly what msot were predicted. santorums good result in Iowa was a fluke. and gingrich will soon fall off to once the serial hypocracy ad hits south Carolina.
oh santorum.. welcome to the rock bottom..
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I would quibble with the word "fluke," only in the sense that Santorum's performance in Iowa was due to a lot of hard work there on the part of him and his campaign. However, what you're saying is essentially correct because his campaign doesn't have the resources to do this everywhere, and hence it was inevitable that his performance in Iowa would be his zenith.
 
IonusX said:
and huntsman..
its a two man race now romney and paul. opual has been clipping t his heels for a while now. and perry and newt arent on the ballot on at least 2 states. huntsman isnt on arizona i think.. which is pretty well damaging as arizona has the largest number of delegates
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Yeah I forgot totally about Huntsman..probably because I didn't think he was actually running. 😛 Hell, they didn't even mention his name at my caucus and no one cared.
 
xBiffx said:
Yeah I forgot totally about Huntsman..probably because I didn't think he was actually running. 😛 Hell, they didn't even mention his name at my caucus and no one cared.
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yeah he did pretty bad. iowa was poor and in new hamp despite pouring all his effort into it only managed to walk away with about 14%. he should just quit now while hes behind.. save some space on the ballots
 
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Paul at 20% is not hot on anyone's heels. Dude is finished and always has been.
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hes all of 5-6% from 2nd place. which is alot better than most folks would give him. which ya know he managed to do in new hamp. and managed to make it 3rd in iowa but had a strong start claiming 43% of the early voters.
 
I imagine that Paul could do very well in South Carolina. There are a lot of racists there who could really get behind him on his racist ideas.
 
Is Paul projected to win any primaries?

Or do his supporters think he is going to 2nd/3rd place his way to a nomination?
 
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Paul at 20% is not hot on anyone's heels. Dude is finished and always has been.
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Yep. If Romney was Mr. 25%, Paul has been Mr. 20%.


Collecting a decent number of delegates, but all he can do is play spoiler and hope to be a kingmaker of Romney crashes some how.
 
AyashiKaibutsu said:
I don't really follow this stuff too much, but wasn't it pretty clear from the start the only place Santorum would do well was Iowa?
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Santorum's problem is that he only works from the religious conservative angle in an election year where the economy is clearly the major issue. His campaign spent a lot of effort in Iowa to try to get some support, but he doesn't have the ability to do that everywhere, and without that he won't make enough of an impact.
 
I may not think much about Ron Paul's ideas, but we all have to admit Ron Paul is so far doing far better than he did in 2008.

Then the other part of the whole 2012 GOP primary show is the question of can Mitt Romney basically lock up the GOP nomination by the end of January? And if the GOP can manage to put checks on Mitt Romney ambitions, its going to have to find an alternate champion. And while I doubt the alternate GOP hope will be Ron Paul, Ron Paul is very useful to a anyone but Romney strategy if he can pull more votes away from Romney than the GOP new great hope.
 
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