the debates dominated this election. once the debates ended, iowa went back to its traditional dna. having been out to iowa several times to watch him campaign it will be interesting to see if he can sustain this. he has a political history. rick perhe is already attacking him for ear marks saying you are just another politician. look at the candidates who have risen. ron paul, herman cain before him. now rick santorum. authenticity. gingrich and romney you can call flip-floppers. the candidates who seem to believe what they say vote in hat their belief. santorum has gained ground with people who think he s a credible, authentic candidate. listen to what santorum said. listen to this clip. with respect to the issue about i get a kick thoifts with governor romney. newt said this at the bede bait. governor romney is not like he s tried to be a career politician. he s just not been successful. still pretty polite the exchanges between romney and santorum.
candidates surging in the polls in iowa who weren t putting in the time that santorum had. the debates dominated this election. once the debates ended, iowa went back to its traditional dna. having been out to iowa several times to watch him campaign it will be interesting to see if he can sustain this. he has a political history. rick perhe is already attacking him for ear marks saying you are just another politician. look at the candidates who have risen. ron paul, herman cain before him. now rick santorum. authenticity. gingrich and romney you can call flip-floppers. the candidates who seem to believe what they say vote in hat their belief. santorum has gained ground with people who think he s a credible, authentic candidate. listen to what santorum said. listen to this clip. with respect to the issue about i get a kick thoifts with governor romney. newt said this at the bede bait. governor romney is not like he s
senator rick santorum. let s go to cnn s joe johns right now. he s joining us from des moines. i think rick santorum believed in himself. not a whole lot of others, joe, did. but it s been quite amazing over these past few days how well he s done. reporter: that s true, wolf. you know, more than half of the republicans who participated in this process the last time around viewed themselves as evangelical christians. born again christians. so it might be a little risque to compare this process to a seduction, but rick santorum has gone a long way. he says the other candidates in the race are speed dating, and he says what he s been doing is a courtship. i have done literally 358 or 359 town hall meetings in the state of iowa. we ve been to all 99 counties, and we weren t speed dating. reporter: rick santorum s polling numbers, his surge in the race for iowa, is starting to look like love. though the question is, what took so long for a staunch conservative who s been cou