politics.com, it's the first time that santorum has been in the lead character as conservative foil of the on again off again mechanical front-runn front-runner, mitt romney. >> you are right, if you go back and look at polling you'll see everyone to now rick santorum they have rose and fell. perry rose fell and rose and fell again. romney never goes above 30%, i usually dismiss it and we have talked about it. >> it's always a lagging indicator >> and it's notity a national election, the people saying i am for this person. now, we are getting very close, super tuesday, you have ten states voting. it's going to be a national election that means the polling, more important than it was say a