{"id":6585,"date":"2011-12-29T00:03:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T08:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6585"},"modified":"2011-12-29T00:03:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T08:03:15","slug":"santorum-rising-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/29\/santorum-rising-in-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Santorum Rising in Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The history of the Republican race to date would read like Who\u2019s Who in the asylum<\/u>.  They seem desperate to find anyone but Multiple Mitt.  First it was \u2018Crazy\u2019 Michele, followed by Donald \u2018the hair\u2019, followed by \u2018God chose me\u2019 Perry, followed by \u2018999\u2019 Cain, followed by \u2018Newter\u2019, and followed by \u2018Racist\u2019 Ron.  Now Mitt is back in the lead, but Rick \u2018Google Me<\/a>\u2019 Santorum, infamous for comparing Gay marriage to sex with dogs, is rising in polls.  Will this [expletive deleted] become the next GOP flavor?<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"29SantorumGoogle\"<\/a>Just six days ahead of the Iowa caucuses, a new poll of Iowa Republicans suggests that Newt Gingrich’s political star may be falling in Iowa, where the former House speaker now comes in fourth behind frontrunner Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and surprise third-place finisher Rick Santorum<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The poll<\/a>, conducted by CNN\/Time\/ORC from December 21-27, shows Romney leading Paul 25 percent to 22 percent in the first-in-the-nation caucus state, while Santorum trails with 16 percent. Gingrich earned 14 percent. Romney’s three point lead falls within the poll’s margin of error, which was 4.5 percent.<\/p>\n

Behind Gingrich came Rick Perry with 11 percent, Michele Bachmann with 9 percent, and Jon Huntsman with one percent. Two percent of respondents said they had no opinion.<\/p>\n

Gingrich has fallen dramatically in the last month, compared to a poll conducted by the same group between November 29-Dec. 6. In that survey, Gingrich led the pack in Iowa with 33 percent support. Mitt Romney trailed him by 13 points, with 20 percent, and Ron Paul followed him with 17 percent. Santorum, at the time, was not even polling in the double digits: He earned just five percent a month ago<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I have to wonder if the SPCA will file suit. ;-)  <\/font>Lawrence O’Donnell interviews former governor Ed Rendell.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Rendell may be right. Santorum could ne just despicable enough to appeal to the hate-filled Republican base and challenge Romney.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The history of the Republican race to date would read like Who\u2019s Who in the asylum.  They seem desperate to find anyone but Multiple Mitt.  First it was \u2018Crazy\u2019 Michele, followed by Donald \u2018the hair\u2019, followed by \u2018God chose me\u2019 Perry, followed by \u2018999\u2019 Cain, followed by \u2018Newter\u2019, and followed by \u2018Racist\u2019 Ron.  Now Mitt […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}