Seventeen – Youth Lagoon
Jonathan Bernstein writes a very good post on the reasons to not completely write off Santorum. As well as the reasons TO write him off.
But the single item which is missing from that post is this: Santorum lost his seat in the Senate in 2006 by seventeen points. In Pennsylvania, which is still a pretty purple state.
I mean, come on.
I’ve been writing posts about most of the people to emerge from the GOP clown car during this race, with the basic point consistently being: let’s not take these people too seriously. I get that people have not yet embraced Romney, but are they really going to go with their sixth choice (after Trump, Bachmann, Perry, Cain, Gingrich) as an alternative to him? No, they will not.
Tim Pawlenty has to be kicking himself right now. I know he didn’t set the world on fire when he was running, but is there any doubt that he was a more sustainable alternative to Romney than any of these other jokers?
Finally, a message to the medium: please stop referring to Santorum surging. It’s gross.
I do like the idea that Santorum “benefited” from being so unviable that no one would ever consider voting for him until everyone else had actively dropped the ball.