Time to turn to Newt?

[Mr. Morden]

Santorum, bless his heart, has withdrawn his candidacy, according to reliable sources.  He seems to have more common sense than most of this lot.

Care to share with us what these sources are?  Where did you get this information?

It's not true unless Winfield has some secret source.

Didn't Phil or someone else say a couple of months ago that Santorum was dropping out based on "reliable sources"?

That was Vander blub, pretending to be Phil.

[Mr. Morden]

They could, you know, just stop voting for him in these contests. That would help.

SC decides the GOP nomination, not IA or NH.

Not exactly true. SC went for Reagan in 76. Technically New York has been more accurate than SC, picking the winner since 1972. I am sure there are other states as well that go back further than 1980, the year SC began its streak.

 

I think Florida also has a streak of picking the winner going back to 1976.  In any case, correlation is not causation.  South Carolina always goes for the guys who's already the national frontrunner at the time of the primary, and the GOP always nominates the early frontrunner.  Doesn't necessarily mean that the one causes the other.