Santorum Attacks Gingrich: He’s In ‘Free Fall’

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While Mitt Romney attacks Santorum on earmarks to try to fend him off in Minnesota, Rick Santorum is devoting his energy to pushing Newt Gingrich out of the number two slot. Their argument against Gingrich isn’t over policy, but the all-important question of electability and who can rally the conservative base. In an email from the campaign, Santorum’s communications director put the argumet this way:

Time brings clarity, and this week proved that former speaker Gingrich was simply not up to the task of being the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney… It is Rick Santorum who conservatives can rally around as their standard bearer, and poll-after-poll is now showing that the two-man race is now between Santorum and Romney.

The email included the latest survey from Public Policy Polling, showing a dead-heat in Minnesota between with Romney and Santorum a few points ahead of Gingrich as well as Gingrich’s downward trend in the upcoming contests in Colorado and Minnesota. Perhaps more powerfully, they included a Rassmussen poll giving Santorum the best numbers in a potential match-up against President Obama. 


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