Succinctly Summing up the Santorum Surge
Steven L. Taylor
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
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Dana Milbank:
The “Santorum surge” in recent days has little to do with the candidate himself and everything to do with the fact that he is the last man standing after voters discarded all the rest. There’s little time left to scrutinize Santorum before the Iowa vote — and in his case, that’s an exceedingly lucky thing.
This strikes me as quite correct. It isn’t going to last.
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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The headline has an awful lot of alliteration for attentive bloggers being busy with bulletins.
Steven,
That comment strikes me as spot on as well.