Santorum: I Won’t Rise Up In The Polls — But I’ll ‘Surprise People On Caucus Day’

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The Des Moines Register reports:

“You’re not going to see a big bubble rise for us,” Santorum told reporters this morning. “It will be slow and steady and we’re going to surprise people on caucus day.”

“People have asked me what I have to do to get my spark and I’ve believed it from the very beginning that my spark will be the people of Iowa,” he said. “We’re seeing it every day. People are either leaving (other) camps or leaving the camp of the undecided and saying, ‘You’re the real conservative we can trust.’

“That’s what I think is going to happen here,” he continued. “It’s not going to be anything the media is going to do for me. It’s not going to be any debate performance is going to do. It’s going to be the hard work that we put in …”

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