Doubling his vote practically, and gingrich collapsing. look at the numbers on the right. santorum is now tied at 30% with mitt romney and gingrich is, again, a distant third. david corn, this is stunning. it shows what a boring word volatility. this is a national poll by fox and it shows what happened. this guy wins three primaries and all of a sudden, the entire people in the country, the republicans like lemmings? they just all of a sudden say, oh, is that the word from the big boys? i guess we re all now for santorum. it s a shiny object. why are they doing it? if you look at the numbers, mitt romney dropped 5 points, bit but newt dropped 10 points. we get back to the same story we ve been talking about since last summer. what happens to the nonromney vote? and the volatility is like going from newt, basically stampeding to rick santorum after those wins. if you sort of factor it in and took a poll today, you d probably see even more running from newt to rick santorum. so
And then encouraging the candidates. but if you arrived from another plan tote day, the wall street journal summed up the entire campaign in one sentence. conservatives don t trust mr. romney in part because he gives them little reason to do so. joining me now is the washington bureau chief of mother jones magazine and msnbc political analyst david corn. david, cpac is a place where republicans really let their hair down. tell us what they re really thinking. as always, there is always something. i feel their pain. they re being force fed mitt romney. he s going to give a big speech there tomorrow. it s not going to have applause lines. you just can t make the deal. you and others, we ve been talking about this for months. the whole campaign narrative has been who s the nonromney? romney is just not in siync wit
Conservatives don t trust mr. romney in part because he gives them little reason to do so. joining me now is the washington bureau chief of mother jones magazine and msnbc political analyst david corn. david, cpac is a place where republicans really let their hair down. tell us what they re really thinking. as always, there is always something. i feel their pain. they re being force fed mitt romney. he s going to give a big speech there tomorrow. it s not going to have applause lines. you just can t make the deal. you and others, we ve been talking about this for months. the whole campaign narrative has been who s the nonromney? romney is just not in sync with the deep conservative anti-obama hating fervor of the republican primary base.
Conservative that won the primary and finished ahead of the pack now for two consecutive races. i m not sure if you were able to hear former speaker of the house newt gingrich in the prior segment, but i did ask about your criticism that he suggested that this has got to come down to romney or nonromney. do you agree, a, with that narrative, and what was your reaction? he said rick is a friend of mine, he has every right to stay in the race, i m just suggesting that they are splitting the anti-romney vote or the nonromney vote, however you want to 2009 it. well, newt is a friend of mine, too, and callista, and we, as he mentioned, we have an affection with the family. i would just say this, that i don t think it s a nonromney versus a romney race. i think there are three candidates in this race who have a chance to be president. one of them is a conservative, the other two are not a reliable conservatives. you have a lot of conservatives who have lined up behind me nationally becau
Conservative that won the primary and finished ahead of the pack now for two consecutive races. i m not sure if you were able to hear former speaker of the house newt gingrich in the prior segment, but i did ask about your criticism that he suggested that this has got to come down to romney or nonromney. do you agree, a, with that narrative, and what was your reaction? he said rick is a friend of mine, he has every right to stay in the race, i m just suggesting that they are splitting the anti-romney vote or the nonromney vote, however you want to 2009 it. well, newt is a friend of mine, too, and callista, and we, as he mentioned, we have an affection with the family. i would just say this, that i don t think it s a nonromney versus a romney race. i think there are three candidates in this race who have a chance to be president. one of them is a conservative, the other two are not a reliable conservatives. you have a lot of conservatives who have lined up behind me nationally becau