PUBLIC OPINION > Conservatives Were Rooting for Santorum
SodaHead News
2012/04/11 13:00:00
It's been a long, grueling primary season, but Mitt Romney has all but secured the GOP ticket. Rick Santorum, his primary opponent (no pun intended), dropped out of the race on Tuesday because it would have taken a miracle to win enough delegates, and his team felt it was time to unite the Republican party for the general election. In the wake of Sanotorum's resignation, we asked the public who was rooting for him.
This one is a little tricky, because political alignment doesn't just have profound affect on how people are going to vote -- it's essential to the question. Only 23% of the general public was voting for Santorum, but that includes liberals and progressives, who are probably rooting for Obama; libertarians, who are probably rooting for Ron Paul; and moderates, who could be rooting for anyone. We've got to take a closer look.
Conservatives Had Santorum's Back
A lot of respondents were referring to Santorum as an impossible candidate, and based on primary results that seemed to be the case, but more than half of conservative voters supported him. Every other political alignment combined averaged about 13% support, including libertarians.
Young Voters Can't Stand Him
Further evidence that older voters skew conservative, young voters supporting Santorum were practically nonexistant. Between the ages of 13 and 24, he received just 5% of the vote. But be careful not to infer that young voters are liberals. On the political spectrum, the lowest level of Santorum support and, we believe, most likely to represent young voters was "Other."
Smokers Throw Santorum a Bone
Believe it or not, smokers were significantly more likely to support Santorum. It could be that Santorum's conservative leanings make him an unlikely candidate to bring back the idea of slapping those disturbing images on the packages. Government regulation. They don't want it.
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Top Opinion
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+15I am an Independent and a Pennsylvanian. You couldn't pay me to vote for santorum. There are many reasons he lost his seat here and he would have been you worst nightmare. Unless you want to revert to the dark ages and the inquisition
Ahh so not even a bite on how the Taliban treat their women?
choice..
Encyclical of Leo XIII -----------------------------...
Rick Santorum is a Roman Catholic and belongs to the Knights of Malta. If you declare war on other Christians. Then it becomes a problem and that’s exactly what Santorum did in a 2008 speech about Protestantism at Ave Maria University. According to Santorum, 45 million Baptists, Lutherans, Methodists, Episcopalians, Congregationalists, and many Americans who belong to other sects of Protestantism are no longer real Christians because they do not follow strict Catholic teachings and extreme beliefs like he does.
This article shows you where Santorum gets this from:
LORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI has reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says Orthodox churches were defective and that other Christian denominations were not true churches.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/1...
All of Christainity is false, why they will all go back to Rome to momma.
Santorum would have pushed the same Vatican agenda as Obama is doing.
Definition for lobbyist:
Web definitions: someone (Santorum) who is employed to persuade legislators to vote for legislation that favors the lobbyist's employer.
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j/k ;)
see who is left out of the field of all the candidates and then make a logical desicion
SOCIAL conservatives wanted Santorum.
Gingrich was the best Republican candidate, but the Old Boy Republicans bought their boy Romney the nomination.
I just pray to God he wins, for America's sake.