Santorum Surges Up From Behind!

[Ajidica]

Also entitled: Mittens gets a thrashin'

U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum appears poised for a campaign boost with a strong showing in two of Tuesday's nominating contests.

The former senator from Pennsylvania has a solid initial lead in Minnesota, earning 45 percent of the vote with nearly a third of precincts reporting. And his lead is Missouri is even greater at 55 percent with nearly three-quarters of the votes counted.

Mitt Romney, who had been hoping to solidify his front-runner status in Tuesday's contests, is nearly 30 points behind Santorum in Missouri and lagging in third place in Minnesota.

In Minnesota, with 59% of the precincts reporting in, Santorum has 45.2%, Paul has 26.9%, Mittens has 17%, and Gingrich has 10.7%.

Thoughts? Has Minnesota along with several other states abandoned common sense? Will Paul come up from behind and surge past Santorum? If Santorum keeps winning, will we eventualy tire of the gay jokes? Will zombie Lenin awake from his mausoleum and proceed to crush capitalism and eat brains? Have I missed any good thread titles or good questions?

Let the discussion commence!
EDIT: The Canadian Broadcasting Company has declared Santorum the winner of the Minnesota primary.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/02/07/republican-romney-gingrich.html

 

[Joecoolyo]

Honestly did not see Santorum unloading on the Midwest like that. Guess this was the moneyshot he was looking for.

Go Santorum go!

 

[mangxema]

A three-way race! Figures Santorum would be involved.

Also, this is perhaps a naive request, but I'd really like it if candidates didn't just make.. stuff up.

 

[bhsup]

Again, bear in mind that our primary today in Missouri was meaningless. Delegates to convention will be chosen at party caucus in March.

EDIT: And holy moses, I totally forgot to vote today I cannot believe that. *sigh* Kinda makes me feel like I failed at civic duty.

 

[kramerfan86]

I have to ask because I heard my Missouri family members complaining over this, why does missouri waste taxpayer money on a non-binding primary?

Also, I really really am losing faith in the republicans here. Santorum... really? The dude is a nutcake.

 

[bombshoo]

And wave of Santorum sweeps over the Midwest. I guess he had more in him than any of us thought.

I still don't think he'll win, but by the end, I think we will definitely have learned what Santorum is really made of.

 

[Camikaze]

BBC says Santorum is at 44% in Colorado, with Romney second on 28%. Opinion polls had Romney winning Colorado.

Does being happy at this make me a bad person?

EDIT: And holy moses, I totally forgot to vote today I cannot believe that. *sigh* Kinda makes me feel like I failed at civic duty.

 

[Dachs]

Does being happy at this make me a bad person?

I dunno. Why are you happy about it?

 

[emzie]

The Santorum Surge chokes me up every time.

 

[bhsup]

I have to ask because I heard my Missouri family members complaining over this, why does missouri waste taxpayer money on a non-binding primary?

Also, I really really am losing faith in the republicans here. Santorum... really? The dude is a nutcake.

It has to do with GOP rules about delegate count for primaries/caucuses before March. If Missouri went by its primary, it would lose like 1/2 its delegates at the convention, so it was decided to go with a caucus. But due to political posturing by both parties, the primary ended up staying on the ballot as well, even though it was meaningless.

Yeah, I know Oh well, at least I can't be arrested for failing to do so like you can.

 

[Godwynn]

This is going to create a sticky mess for the Republican nomination process if Santorum can come rushing back into the race.

 

[kramerfan86]

It has to do with GOP rules about delegate count for primaries/caucuses before March. If Missouri went by its primary, it would lose like 1/2 its delegates at the convention, so it was decided to go with a caucus. But due to political posturing by both parties, the primary ended up staying on the ballot as well, even though it was meaningless.


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What a terrible waste of taxpayer dollars.

 

[bhsup]

Well, I cannot speak for all districts in the State, but some (probably most) were having votes for other stuff as well.

 

[Joecoolyo]

What a terrible waste of taxpayer dollars.

I don't think taxpayer dollars are being used for this.

Just the GOP warchest.

EDIT: Unless I'm mistaken and the state does fund these

 

[bhsup]

Official State election. Yes, taxpayer dollars being used. The GOP will be footing the bill for the caucus of course since that's just a party shindig.

 

[Akkon888]

All four candidates have weight. Pulling the weight in different directions does not benefit the whole.

 

[Core Imposter]

Obviously I am not the only conservative that ain't voting for Romney.

I can support Santorum. But this is the absolute last candidate I can. I only have a small unoccuppied space on my bumper for another sticker, right below Perry and to the right of Fred Thompson.

I sure hope no one else gets in the race, I might have buy another entire car.

We can expect Romney to buy the late vote in Colorado though.

 

[FriendlyFire]

I LOLED at the threat title.

 

[wilycoyote]

I LOLED at the threat title.

... and now I did, too.

 

[Core Imposter]

Cooooooooooooooooloraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadooooooooooo!