advertising in boston. so unless, perhaps the super pac backing rick perry were to withdraw their support for him, while he s in austin, thinking about whether or not he s going to continue and transfer that to a santorum kind of a blitz, rick santorum will have a hard time matching mitt romney s air campaign. when santorum gets to new hampshire, he will spend a tremendous amount of time on the west side of manchester, new hampshire s largest city. and there are a large, large community of french canadian catholics on the west side of manchester, where rick santorum has spent a good deal of his campaign time. he has a county chairman in every new hampshire county. he has more state reps and state senators than any other candidate, except mitt romney. and he has the sheriff in mitt romney s own county where he has a vacation home on the lake. so the santorum people are not taking a back seat really to the
he is going to do better than nip thought. south carolina with the christian right, the pro-lifers, he is going to be competitive and head to florida, this becomes a different race tonight. i think what howard fineman said too about the fact that santorum s guy in new hampshire was a big part of pat buchanan s win in 1996 in new hampshire, shouldn t expect he doesn t know what s doing from here on out. santorum said he had the second highest number of state rep he is supporting him in new hampshire because the story was out there, well, he can t go beyond iowa. he said, yes i can, i get got the second number of state reps behind me in new hampshire and a good team up there and that is to support what howard fineman was saying that is what santorum told me. maybe the closest second finish ever in iowa politics, but this gives rick santorum undoubtedly a chance to live for another day. and his fund raising, steve,
let me congratulations you, senator santorum. have you done an amazing job, as you well know. it was not that long ago, you were nowhere in iowa. but now it is a virtual tie. you may win or lose by one or two votes. but for all practical purposes, you re a winner. give us thought on how it feels. well, you know, this is the first step in the process and well be on to new hampshire. we will work hard and compete there. a little bit behind the curve in the sense that governor romney has been spending a lot of money and a lot of time up there. and has been running for six years. but we feel like we can go up there and compete. we have a great team on the ground. my campaign manager is from new hampshire. he started out as my new hampshire guy. he knows how to win races. he managed frank gintha s campaign up there. we have a lot of frank s campaign that won a congressional seat up there. we have reps, this is before tonight, who signed up. we have some hard-working state
advertising in boston. so unless, perhaps the super pac backing rick perry were to withdraw their support for him, while he s in austin, thinking about whether or not he s going to continue and transfer that to a santorum kind of a blitz, rick santorum will have a hard time matching mitt romney s air campaign. when santorum gets to new hampshire, he will spend a tremendous amount of time on the west side of manchester, new hampshire s largest city. and there are a large, large community of french canadian catholics on the west side of manchester, where rick santorum has spent a good deal of his campaign time. he has a county chairman in every new hampshire county. he has more state reps and state senators than any other candidate, except mitt romney. and he has the sheriff in mitt romney s own county where he has a vacation home on the lake. so the santorum people are not taking a back seat really to the
win a tough congressional win up there. about 25 state reps already. this is before tonight who have signed up. not just signed up, we have hard-working reps. new hampshire is all about politics. we feel very good we re going to climb that ladder just like we did here. senator, piers morgan is here and wants to ask some commonwealth of pennsylvanias as well. feeling a bit like rocky balboa tonight. how are you going to knock out mitt romney? well, there s going to be a rematch, and we re going to go to new hampshire and take and take him on, and, you know, we re going to run a campaign talking about my vision for this country. you didn t hear me go on after people tonight. i just laid out what, where america needs to go and how the republicans need to address those issues, and talk about, you know, a strong economy and make sure the economy is going to be vibrant for everybody in this economy and that we have an economy that s built on strong