Santorum: Hope is in Iowa, not poll numbers
(CNN) - GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, who's struggled to break into the double-digits in national and state polls, said Saturday that he'll see victory in the early voting contests, not in his poll numbers.
"I think we're going to win Iowa. I'm feeling better about that every single day," the former Pennsylvania senator said on a campaign stop in South Carolina. "It's not going to show up in the polls. My projection is we'll never be ahead in the polls prior to caucus day."
Santorum has made Iowa, which holds the nation's first presidential contest, the primary focus of his campaign and touts visiting all 99 counties of the Hawkeye State.
Despite his efforts, he still registers in the mid-single digits in polls measuring support in the state. According to a recent CNN/Time/ORC Poll, Santorum came in seventh out of the eight candidates listed, taking 2% of support among Republican voters in Iowa.
A Des Moines Register Poll, also released at the end of October, showed Santorum with 5% in the state.
Santorum made headlines, however, when he won the backing of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, an organization that bills itself the “the nation’s oldest and largest Republican volunteer organization.”
He received the endorsement at the group's Presidential Preference Convention in Des Moines at the end of October.
"We're building. We're the candidate on the rise in Iowa right now, and it's among activists," he said. "It's not going to show up in the polls."
Santorum will face seven other Republican presidential candidates in a debate on foreign policy and national security in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on Saturday night.
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Santorum is no longer a senator from his home state for a very good reason. He's wacko.
Rick, I have 2 words for you – Terri Shaivo
If he is going to win the nomination, he is going to need more than hope. I don' think that he is going to make it. It is likely that he will drop out by the 5th primary or sooner.
Denial is a revier in Egypt !
GO HOME Santorum.
What a disturbed POS he is.
Google "Santorum"
Jeebus told Sanorum to run. Jeebus also told Cain, Perry, Bachman, and Romney to run. Clearly, God has a great sense of humor.
Republicans winning in Iowa??
Well, you got trouble, my friends.
Right here in River City.
This Boy is Done....He never had a chance....except in the in TeaOP
what a fool. i wish he could see himself as most of america does.
he gets hammered in his own state by 16% ... go away looser
I take back about the overpopulator knowing about jerry sandusky, but his family values award foundation gave a child rapist a plaque that says . . . .
"Its philosophy is simple: it is easier to develop a child than to rehabilitate an adult," read the citation in the awards dinner program from Sept. 24, 2002. "
In other words somebody will rehabilitate sandusky as soon as he is sent to jail where he belongs. Then again . . . . . this guy is never going to be president so who cares what he has to say.
Hey Rick! You have ZERO chance... just like Bachmann or Romney...
Here's Rick's strategy.. it's called fantasy. He thinks low poll numbers mean he's winning. Just like PA race he lost.
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"We're building. We're the candidate on the rise in Iowa right now, and it's among activists," he said. "It's not going to show up in the polls."
You've gotta love the eternal optimism of a complete idiot. He needs to go back to that "republican think tank" he joined after losing his Senate seat. Obviously "republican' and "think tank" is an oxymoron.
Hope, New Hope that is, is in Pennsylvania – you know – the state that threw you out long ago, and for very good reason.
I really think the only real viable candiddate in this GOP freak show is Romney, but Santorum has been decent if your taste runs to these conservative whack jobs......he makes a helluva lot more sense to me than clowns like Bachman, Perry, Gingrich or the groper (Herman)......
What's Rick doing with his hand????