This deep into primary season, about three weeks out from Super Tuesday, the contest for the GOP presidential nomination doesn’t so much resemble the pruning Mitt Romney runway walk we’d been told to expect, but more like a backroom dogfight with each snarling pup getting its respective second wind.
The latest Rottweiler on the upswing, former-Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, just posted some serious numbers in Ohio, according to the latest messy stew of polling data. Today, Quinnipac University says Santorum not only pulled even with Romney, but shot ahead by 7 points among potential Republican voters. Also, this is probably the only time in his life Rick Santorum has been compared with a Rottweiler. Maybe a basset hound . . . mark this historic occasion.
The breakdown, according to the Columbus Dispatch: the former senator got 36 percent of likely voters, with Romney coming in at 29 percent. Huffing to catch up is New Gingrich with 20 percent and Ron Paul with 9 percent.
This data represents a plot twist: only a couple weeks back, on January 18, Romney led the state with 27 percent, Santorum following with 18 percent. Quinnipiac’s Peter Brown’s speculates on the importance of today’s info in the Dispatch piece:
This article appears in Feb 15-21, 2012.
Here we have the male Sarah Palin…
This dude is a freaken whack-a-doodle!!!!
Keep an eye on Ron Paul folks just in case….