Monday, January 9, 2012
2012 Iowa Caucus: Santorum storms forward to meet Romney head on.
“It shatters that one,” Chuck Laudner, a former Iowa GOP leader who backed Santorum, said of the senator’s meteoric rise from single-digit polling in December to a photo finish that saw Romney win by a scant eight-vote margin.
“The Huckabee thing will be quickly forgotten. Years and years from now they’ll be talking about the Santorum surge rather than the Huckaboom,” Laudner noted. “It eclipses that. Huckabee was growing for more than a month and that became a two-way race. Huckabee came back from second place to beat Mitt Romney. Santorum came from dead last. It’s an incredible feat.”
Santorum has risen from the back of the pack of the pack in a memorable sweeping of Iowa, gaining favor in every small county and dominating the map. While Santorum is backed by 64.8% of Iowa's map, hit's all by the lowest populated counties. Romney, who has only 17.7% backing on the map, has favor in the largest of counties, and he and Santorum are tied at 35% favor of Iowa.
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