Spreading Santorum across the nation
Welly, well. Looks like Michigan-born Mitt Romney is up to his keester in Santorum. Via Steve Benen at the Maddow Blog:
Public Policy Polling just released these resultsfrom the state of Michigan.Rick Santorum’s taken a large lead in Michigan’s upcoming Republican primary. He’s at 39% to 24% for Mitt Romney, 12% for Ron Paul, and 11% for Newt Gingrich.Santorum’s rise is attributable to two major factors: his own personal popularity (a stellar 67/23 favorability) and GOP voters increasingly souring on Gingrich. Santorum’s becoming something closer and closer to a consensus conservative candidate as Gingrich bleeds support.Remember, this was believed to be one of Romney’s most likely wins. That “let Detroit go bankrupt” policy notwithstanding, he’s from Michigan and his father was governor of the state.
And yet, here we are.
Santorum fever, it’s spreading. Just don’t catch it. Because that would be… eeeew.
UPDATE: It isn’t just PPP that has Santorum up. American Research Group has Santorum up by 6 points in Michigan.
