and saying it s tea party supporters unite behind rick santorum then mitt romney won t be the nominee. saying i m calling for this guy, being the judge for santorum to drop out and stop selling a pipe dream. there may be something of a sense of that in the search, if you will fr a romney alternative that bonl of these campaigns are taking a look at math and going given what we ve got and what gingrich got from the camp what santorum got we can take this guy. that is what you ve got going back and forth now. saying arizona would have been better, michigan would have been better and you thought michigan camp a bunch of times, then, if supporters just swung his way, not calling on gingrich to get out of the race, then we could have taken michigan and the race would be different now there.
along because i think for a long time it s been obvious to a lot of people that it s romney or no one. and for a long time, it s been the truth that the obsession with the romney alternative has been bad for the party and bad for our prospects against barack obama. and despite all that, we have indulged in it for almost two years now. let s take a look at how some of these numbers broke down. 51% of republicans in ohio said romney has the best chance to beat president obama. less than half of that number said santorum was the stronger candidate. the economy was the top concern for a majority of the state s republican voters. voters with an economic focus backed romney by an eight-point margin over santorum. gingrich won 18% of those voters, and ron paul was the single digits. romney struggled in other areas with nearly 40% of ohio republicans saying the former
comparing him to the, you know, exquisite humanity of president bush 41. but i think that this hunger for romney alternative has become almost a pathology in the republican it s become a sickness. and i thought it was very unhealthy for the party of our process when we were hungering over all of these guys with no interest in running. governor christie who i think is tremendous, but never showed any leg or seriously flirted with the idea, i don t think. jeb bush said all along he s not ready. we ve had an unhealthy obsession with the romney alternative for two years now. and it s manifesting itself in santorum s success. you would have thought it would have ended with santorum s spiral down. but unhealthy obsessions never end in a pretty way. they never end pretty. and this isn t going to end pretty. and there s going to be noise and i think the media will pay too much attention to it all
santorum is being outspent and outorganized and not on the ballot in virginia at all because of filing difficulties and is ineligible for 46 delegates there. that s not going to make the difference in this election. our people are passionate. our people are coming to the polls. i think that s going to make the big difference. romney is likely to win the overall delegate race, losing the popular base in ohio would be seen as a sign of weakness. for santorum, losing the popular vote and delegate race would be a major setback. among other things, it could give newt gingrich an opening to mount a comeback. he s favored to win the prize in georgia and hopes it will propel him to win more wins to squeeze past santorum and be the romney alternative. gingrich will spend super tuesday night in georgia. mitt romney will be in boston. rick santorum will be in soup beville stupenville, ohio, which is in one of those congressional districts he won t be on the ballot. they joke it s a metaphor
santorum is being outspent and outorganized and not on the ballot in virginia at all because of filing difficulties and is ineligible for 46 delegates there. that s not going to make the difference in this election. our people are passionate. our people are coming to the polls. i think that s going to make the big difference. romney is likely to win the overall delegate race, losing the popular base in ohio would be seen as a sign of weakness. for santorum, losing the popular vote and delegate race would be a major setback. among other things, it could give newt gingrich an opening to mount a comeback. he s favored to win the prize in georgia and hopes it will propel him to win more wins to squeeze past santorum and be the romney alternative. gingrich will spend super tuesday night in georgia. mitt romney will be in boston. rick santorum will be in soup beville stupenville, ohio, which is in one of those congressional districts he won t be on the ballot. they joke it s a metaphor