Explaining Santorum

[realtonygoodwin]

Here is what really happened:

Santorum put all his eggs in the Iowa basket, and spent all his little bit of money in Iowa. He visited every single county and worked hard at the retail politicking.
Then, Bob Vander Plaats endorsed him, which gave him a few extra points. Prior to this, the social conservative vote in Iowa was mostly split among Santorum, Bachmann, Perry, and even Gingrich and Cain.
CNN released a poll that did not include Independents or Democrats, and it seemed to appear that Santorum was surging. That narrative that he was surging caused the people who were undecided social conservatives, or previously supported Bachmann, Gingrich, Perry, etc to coalesce behind him. He then gained momentum and it just took off from there.

 

[tempest]

More important was HOW Santorum was presented by the same gang of media, namely as if he was natural choice for evangelicals... deliberately hiding his fiscal liberal past, his non-evalgelism (he's a Catholic, not even a convert like Gingrich) and his Romney-like "NorthEastern establishment" background.

 

[69360]

If you need santorum explained just google it.

 

[Indy Vidual]

This is Santorum's true level of support 3 days ago, how do you explain that?

 

[Muwahid]

Murdoch endorsed Santorum, Santorum takes Iowa.

Coincidence?

 

[unknown]

Satorum just peaked at the right time. Theres a TON of stuff in his past: pay raises, spending increases, Specter, Whitman, Deptmt of Ed, most corrupt etc.

He'll get vetted and drop like the rest.

 

[pauliticalfan]

Three words: Fake CNN Poll.

 

[Cleaner44]

The people that voted for Frothy don't know ANYTHING about him. It was simply the unRomney and unPaul vote.

 

[fc2008]

Santorum probably received 10's of millions of dollars worth of local and national press/television coverage for free. The vast majority of it positive, all condensed into a 7-10 day mega advertising blitz. It really was a sight to behold if you were paying attention to what was happening.

 

[John of Des Moines]

They were pimping Santorum real hard in Iowa the last week or so.

 

[jersdream]

I'm sorry number of rally attendees, google trends, and the like doesn't translate into votes necessarily. You don't get extra value for your votes for passion behind it.

 

[mport1]

Here is what really happened:

Santorum put all his eggs in the Iowa basket, and spent all his little bit of money in Iowa. He visited every single county and worked hard at the retail politicking.
Then, Bob Vander Plaats endorsed him, which gave him a few extra points. Prior to this, the social conservative vote in Iowa was mostly split among Santorum, Bachmann, Perry, and even Gingrich and Cain.
CNN released a poll that did not include Independents or Democrats, and it seemed to appear that Santorum was surging. That narrative that he was surging caused the people who were undecided social conservatives, or previously supported Bachmann, Gingrich, Perry, etc to coalesce behind him. He then gained momentum and it just took off from there.

Yep you nailed it. A tiny bump plus a skewed poll sample plus a MASSIVE media manufactured "surge" did this. Without this (and the constant MSM attacks on Ron), Ron Paul likely would have won by a landslide.

 

[Maverick]

The people that voted for Frothy don't know ANYTHING about him. It was simply the unRomney and unPaul vote.

Bingo.

And it wasn't just the media, guys. It was the Iowa GOP apparatus, the party officials. They were scared to death of Ron, and they herded all of their Gingrich/Perry/Bachmann rank & file sheep to Frothy and Romney in order to screw RP.

 

[realtonygoodwin]

I'm sorry number of rally attendees, google trends, and the like doesn't translate into votes necessarily. You don't get extra value for your votes for passion behind it.

+ rep

 

[steel-the-deal]

Murdoch endorsed Santorum, Santorum takes Iowa.

Coincidence?

^^THIS

 

[1stAmendguy]

The dude was at 5% one week ago in Iowa. One week later he basically wins. We found out tonight that the power of the media coupled with a ignorant populace who still trusts and to a great degree believes everything on the idiot tube are two factors that are going to be very hard for the Ron Paul grassroots movement to overcome. People are persuaded greatly by the disinformation that gets put out by these people. It's a hard reality to accept.

 

[kaberUSA]

Yup. In the video after the results you can see Rand in the background. He's visually upset. The media concacted this guy to try to de-rail Ron Paul.

Even Luntz didn't see this new guy come into the race and rise to the top

 

[nano1895]

I feel like alot of the social conservatives no matter who they were supporting (perry/bachmann/paul) really had Santorum in the back of their minds as their second choice. But Perry and Bachmann with their name recognition made them see Santorum as unelectable but they still liked him (he always did really well in the pos/neg favorability polls). The only thing holding back the dam was the electability issue, and it got taken down in storm by CNN with their poll.

 

[mport1]

The dude was at 5% one week ago in Iowa. One week later he basically wins. We found out tonight that the power of the media coupled with a ignorant populace who still trusts and to a great degree believes everything on the idiot tube are two factors that are going to be very hard for the Ron Paul grassroots movement to overcome. People are persuaded greatly by the disinformation that gets put out by these people. It's a hard reality to accept.

I knew the people were easily manipulated, but this is the biggest eye opener ever to prove this. This is the best thing we will have to take from this. The MSM really is our enemy and we must continue to fight them and illustrate their lies, spin, and manipulation. We must also continue to create alternative media to overcome them.

 

[Carole]

LOL So does anyone think the MSM extolled the virtues of Sanitarium too much and overplayed their hand? What if he suddenly becomes flush with money? MSM will then have to destroy him will they not? Strong debater even though wrong on issues. Would people like him better than Romney?

Just curious. But going to bed now.