Your Election Newsfeed: Goodbye, Santorum

by , April 18, 2012 — 4 Comments
Election Update: Goodbye, Santorum

The Highlight Reel

  • Romney swept the April 3 primaries in DC, Maryland, and Wisconsin, picking up 83 delegates to Santorum’s 9, while scooping up 70% of the vote in DC. The Wisconsin win was particularly important for Romney, as it was likely the last straw on the back of the groaning camel known as the Santorum campaign.
  • Santorum pulled out ended his campaign last week, avoiding what seems like the harsh and inevitable embarrassment of being beaten in his home state of Pennsylvania by Romney. The former PA Senator had a respectable run, coming out of nowhere as Romney’s main competitor and fighting the good fight to win 11 states—but getting torched by Romney’s ad people and being seen as a sore loser undermining party unity wouldn’t be good for any future political ambitions. Santorum has told his supporters that he expects to remain “active and engaged” in the presidential campaign but has stayed silent on whether he will endorse the frontrunner Mitt Romney (or, as Herman Cain did, endorse every American citizen).
  • Shortly thereafter, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett endorsed Mitt Romney.
  • Are you sitting down? After a long and vicious race, the Democratic Party has finally announced its nominee for the presidency!
  • The Washington Post and ABC News released a poll citing that Americans find Obama more “friendly and likable” than Mitt Romney by more than a 2-to-1 ratio. Sorry, Mittens!
  • Yet despite the above poll and Romney’s historic unpopularity (he’s “the least popular of any major party candidate since the organizations began gathering such data in the early 80s”), Obama and Romney seem to have been neck-and-neck in national polls for a while now, including the latest:

 Romney v Obama 610x343 Your Election Newsfeed: Goodbye, Santorum

  • So who doesn’t like Obama? Working-class whites, a group that the President has largely failed to win over in the years since he lost them by 18% to Hillary Clinton in 2008.
  • Say hello to the general election? “A new joint fund-raising initiative between Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee will aim to raise $800 million by November, part of what Mr. Romney’s campaign estimates will be a total of $1 billion spent to defeat President Obama and elect Mr. Romney.”

 

What’s Up Next

  • April 24: Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island go to the polls. New York has a whopping 95 delegates on offer, while Pennsylvania has 72.
  • Expect an escalation of the ad war! Here is either an ad attacking Mitt Romney’s moneyness, or a trailer for a Blair Witch Project remake—I can’t tell which.

 

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Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore.

About the Author

Lulu was born in China and grew up in Germany, Norway, and Canada. She graduated from Yale University with a major in Political Science and a minor in microwave cuisine. Having worked for J.P. Morgan in New York, she is now a graduate student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, where her focus is on technology, media, and economic development.

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JB
JB

Im glad Santorum finally quit. I can only dream Romney will do the same. I would settle for Obama instead of Romney any day. Its rather disappointing your article made no mention of Ron Paul. That is who I will be voting for this election, he is the only leader that has genuinely impressed me with his words and actions through the years. Ron Paul 2012.

Dani Moritz
Dani Moritz

Once again, I really enjoyed your summary of political happenings. Very informative (and humorous too)!

Sarah
Sarah

Great recap--I appreciate the humor along with the info.

runronrun
runronrun

What I found the most disturbing about this article is that they make no mention that Romney has not bought the candidacy yet with his 800 million. Can you please try and wrap your head around that amount of money for one second, stop... think... 800 million dollars Golden Saks is willing to pay to make sure they are represented in the Whitehouse. Either way whether it is Obama (he is also owned by GS) or Romney they are able to buy the presidency. When will you people wake up and realize GS has no interest in the poor or middle class but they are willing to wage a class war to divide and concur. Why doesn't GS donate 800 million dollars to the people who are now homeless due to the housing collapse and give a little back to the people who truly bailed them out? We Americans paid for that bailout. We weren't given a choice but we paid for it. So, vote for Romney or Obama because you think they are going to do right by you I mean that is what the Media (who by the way is owned as well) tells you to do.

Or you can join the millions of other Americans that are waking up, looking around and seeing there is one guy that is different and the only reason he can afford to be in the race and go against that kind of money is because he is funded by small donations from millions of people. His owners are many, his owners and who he is responsible to pay back is the military men and women, the middle class, the "poor", the college kids, the grandmas and grandpas who see a very different America then what they lived in just a few years ago. His allegiance is to Americans and the Constitution.

Mainstream media will block out the thousands that show up the Dr. Paul rallies across the country. They will ignore the fact that voter fraud is rampant. They will turn their backs on real political news to satisfy their owners but sacrifice the people who look to them for real honest news. I beg you to look at your children (if you have them) and imagine the future they will have someday. Then visit ronpaul2012.com.