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Rick Santorum’s presidential campaign announced yesterday that it was opening “five new campaign offices to supplement its existing South Carolina headquarters in Mt. Pleasant, SC.” The new offices are in Greenville, Myrtle Beach, Spartanburg, Rock Hill and Columbia.
“We feel very confident … that the voters are going to end up coalescing around Rick Santorum, and I think that South Carolina is a good place to start that,” his campaign manager, Mike Biundo, told reporters Tuesday night in New Hampshire.
Biundo said Santorum’s campaign in the Palmetto State will benefit from the addition of the staff that helped the former Pennsylvania senator come within eight votes of beating Mitt Romney in Iowa.
“We took all our Iowa staff that wanted to go down,” Biundo told reporters. “We feel very good about our operation in South Carolina. I think we’re going to do very well there. … We’re already up with ads. We’ve gotten a mail piece out. … We’re gonna go everywhere on the ground. We’re obviously gonna put a lot more money into media than we did [in New Hampshire], certainly more than we did in Iowa, as well. … I think we have about a million dollars committed [to advertise in South Carolina] between what we’re putting in and what we’re gonna put in. So I feel pretty good about that now and we’ll be adding more and reassessing as things go along.”
The campaign also announced this morning that Santorum had won the endorsement of South Carolina state Rep. Greg Delleny, who was named the state’s “Pro-Life Legislator of the Year” in 2008, and recognized as “Legislator of the Year” in 2007 by the Palmetto Family Council.
Santorum is currently third in the Real Clear Politics average of South Carolina polls.
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Sean| 1.12.12 @ 9:55AM
Santorum is already falling. People are getting to know his record opposing right to work, supporting No Child Left Behind, and supporting run away spending.
By the way I read an article that shows Santorum's family are red communists. No wonder the neocons love him. They come from red communists themselves.
bill| 1.12.12 @ 10:40AM
Sean,
Thank you. I agree with you 110%.
Ken (Old Texican| 1.12.12 @ 10:16AM
I would be delighted with either Santorum or Perry as a sitting President.
...Evidence, Sean...just any old kind of evidence.
Ken (Old Texican| 1.12.12 @ 10:19AM
Sean,
I mean any evidence beyond your ghastly fart smell.
Sean| 1.12.12 @ 10:43AM
http://news.yahoo.com/santorum.....00418.html
No wonder he is against right to work. How's that for you. You come from a communist family also Ken? Seems to be a norm for neocons.
Joan| 1.18.12 @ 6:33PM
You've got to be kidding, right Sean? You can't be serious. lol.
Clint| 1.12.12 @ 10:36AM
We're The Pennsylvania Gun & Bible Clutchin' Conservatives, Who Helped Throw Little Ricky's Ass Out Of The Senate, After He Stepped In The Last Weeks And Propped Up The RINO-CINO Poster Boy,Arlen Specter Against Our Republican Primary Guy, Pat Toomey.
Now, Little Ricky And Specter Have Been Chased Away And Our Tea Party Senator, Pat Toomey Is In.
If Little Ricky Comes Back To Pennsylvania,We'll Throw His Big Government Israel Firster Ass Out Again,
Make Our Day Little Ricky.
The tea Party Rebellion Is In South Carolina.
bill| 1.12.12 @ 10:41AM
Clint, good post.
KennesawJack| 1.12.12 @ 7:10PM
This is a cut and paste from a post he's made previously. Rather short-sighted.
William Z| 1.12.12 @ 11:38AM
I would vote for Santorum because he respects the Constitution.
Dai Alanye | 1.12.12 @ 6:54PM
It's impossible to believe that anyone rational could be so ignorant as to think repeated tirades of the nature of Clint's could be effective in gathering votes for his man. On the contrary, his antics must be driving voters to oppose Ron Paul. After all, even people new to politics understand you catch more flies with honey than vinegar, yet Clint continues to pile insult upon insult, and insultingly stupid argument upon argument. He surely can't be that asinine!
Is it not possible, therefore, that "Clint" has a covert program to sabotage the Elfin One, Ron Paul? Perhaps he's been hired by the Koch brothers to do his best to make Paul look unattractive, or possibly it's a personal crusade. In either case, he's certainly succeeding in making sensible voters despise his supposed candidate.
There’s another possibility as well. Perhaps his motive is to harm the image of the Tea Party, in which case he's probably been hired by Debbie WasserSchultz. An amazing concept, I know, but one that makes more sense than believing he actually thinks himself effective as a partisan for Paul.
Clint| 1.12.12 @ 10:31AM
Big Government Chickenhawk Ricky Santorum's Record On Voting For Earmarks, Even The Bridge To Nowhere, His Support For The Lobbyist "K-Street Project" , His Tariff Votes, Medicare Prescription Drugs, No Child Left Behind,Etc. Is Gonna Sink Him With Tea Party Patriots.
Israel Firster RINO-CINO's Won't Be Able To Carry Santorum ,The Big Government Statist.
The Tea Party Rebellion Is In South Carolina
bill| 1.12.12 @ 10:41AM
Clint, I agree with you 110%.
MikeG| 1.12.12 @ 7:08PM
bill agrees with Clint. Enough said.
wally| 1.12.12 @ 4:54PM
Capitalizing every word makes you look like an idiot. Just sayin....
Clint| 1.12.12 @ 5:38PM
I'm A Capitalist, Wally.
How's The Beaver ?
Just Askin.......
bill| 1.12.12 @ 10:39AM
This is a lie.
Santorum has no surge in SC. He is trailing Romney, Gingrich, and Ron Paul.
Besides, Santorum VOTED AGAINST the "Right to Work " bill. SC is a "Right to Work" state, and Santorum does not represent people of SC, who are battling with the big labors over the Boeing Plant.
Santorum is a "dead man walking," and cannot win in SC.
Dai Alanye | 1.12.12 @ 6:57PM
Apparently Clintism is contagious. Sad.
Ryan| 1.12.12 @ 11:01AM
Santorum dropped five points on Wednesday. That's the opposite of a surge.
bill| 1.12.12 @ 11:35AM
Santorum voted for
-raising debt ceilling for 8 times
-NCLB
-Medicare Part D
-pork-barrel projects
VOTED AGAINST
-"Right to Work " bill, instead favoring big labors
He's a "dead man walking."
bill| 1.12.12 @ 12:23PM
Romney and Santorum, two "big government liberal RINO" will be slaughtered (politically) in SC.
You bet!
Mimi| 1.12.12 @ 12:54PM
You guys are running off the road on throwing away Santorum a clear conservative for a REAL Libertarian running in the wrong party. Ricks record has him at 88% conservative voting , even higher for pro-life .....He's definitly a Conservative and was a darn good Senator!
bill| 1.12.12 @ 1:27PM
"a darn good Senator!"
He lost his senate bid by 18 points to a moderate Bob Casey, the largest losing margin by an incumbent senator in PA history.
Shame on ! Santorum.
W| 1.12.12 @ 4:29PM
Bob Casey is not a moderate. He is as liberal as Obama. You may be thinking of Bob Casey Sr., his dad, who was strongly pro life, and was not allowed to speak at the 92 Dem convention because of his pro life views. Junior won because of his Dad and will lost in 2012 if there is a strong nominee for President. Junior is pro choice.
bill| 1.12.12 @ 6:31PM
It doesn't matter whether Bob Casey is liberal or moderate, the fact of matter is that Santorum is a "big government union thugs RINO."
Romney ans Santorum will be derailed in SC. Romney will compete in FL, with his Bain Capital money, but cannot win there.
Rick Perry will win in SC and FL. Newt will be in the 2nd place in both states.
Santorum will bow out after SC.
somnolence| 1.12.12 @ 5:10PM
Santorum most likely reached his peak in Iowa. I'm looking forward to supporting Mitt, although I happen to like Santorum's stance on social issues.
somnolence| 1.12.12 @ 5:11PM
Romney WILL NOT be slaughtered in S.C. and will win Florida by double digits.
bill| 1.12.12 @ 6:33PM
Santorum's will get his ass kicked in SC and FL, he could not even win his home state, PA.
The South is not ready for a "big government RINO." Santorum is one of a kind.
bill| 1.12.12 @ 6:33PM
Santorum's will get his ass kicked in SC and FL, he could not even win his home state, PA.
The South is not ready for a "big government RINO." Santorum is one of a kind.