Rick Santorum is surging in the polls in Iowa with two days to go until the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses. On Sunday morning on “Meet the Press,” he said he feels good about his position in the state, but sought to quash the idea that he needs to finish in first.
When asked whether he needs to win to exceed expectations, Santorum laughed.
“Ten days ago I was at 5 percent [in the polls] and every question I got was ‘Why don’t you pack it up and endorse another candidate?'” he said. “And now they’re saying ‘You’ve got to win to exceed expectations.'”
“We’re going to have a big jump here in Iowa,” he said later. “I don’t know what it’s going to be.”
Santorum trails Mitt Romney and Ron Paul, according to the results of the final Des Moines Register poll of likely caucus-goers, but the pollster saw a tremendous amount of momentum building for Santorum in the poll’s data.
If only the last two days of the polling period are considered, Santorum jumps into second place behind only Romney.
Santorum said that his main goal was to win the “conservative primary” between him, Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann.
“I’ve said that from the beginning, if we can pace ahead of perry and/or bachmann we’ll be in good shape, and we’re moving towards that right now,” he said.
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4 Responses
Rick Santorum is the man! He’d make a spectacular President!
1. Polls are largely worthless in predicting the outsome in a causus state.
2. Santorum may be mentsch, but his own state (a classic “purple” state didn’t reelect him to the Senate), and if he can’t convince his home state, how can he convince others.
akuperma,
The point of the polls is to bring a candidate to the fore.
As for Pennsylvania, I believe that was the year of the Republican slaughter.
Rick Santorum is the man! He’d make a spectacular President!