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05 February 2012
Now that Nevada, with its huge Mormon population, militia and UFO hunter compounds are behind us, its time to get on to the business of deciding who the GOP nominee will be. John McCain, who ended up winning the nomination in 2008 actually finished Nevada with a lower percentage of votes than Rick Santorum yesterday. I'll let you decide how much it means.
What we have seen lately is very telling. Polling shows Rick Santorum beating Romney handily in Missouri and Ohio and the latest national polling from Rasmussen has Santorum as the only candidate that can beat Barack Obama. Combine that with major endorsements in Colorado and things are getting interesting real fast.
Now, at a huge candidate event in Texas (Ron Paul's home state) Santorum has trounced all the others in a major straw poll.
HURST -- Tarrant County Republicans favored Rick Santorum over the other remaining presidential candidates at a straw poll and candidates fair Saturday.
Santorum won with 36 percent of more than 700 votes cast. Newt Gingrich came in second with 25 percent, followed by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Lake Jackson, at 18 percent and Mitt Romney at 17 percent.
Trouncing the other candidates, and a combined 61% of the vote for Santorum and Gingrich means big things in states that aren't so weighted for Romney. The true conservative and evangelical vote will start coming to the forefront to offset Romney's advantages. In other states, Rick Santorum's ability to win congressional and senate elections in Pennsylvania will play a huge role. Likely that is the reason for Santorum beating Romney so easily in Ohio.
As most of us watching things closely around the country have seen, the states coming up in February and Super Tuesday bode well for the Santorum campaign. Especially the battleground or swing states. Ultimately, beating Barack Obama has to be the goal and the numbers are telling us that Santorum is the guy that can make that happen.