Should Santorum have contested Maine?

[Eraserhead]

He got 18% tonight. He might have had a shot there and it would have helped to continue his momentum.

[RI]

If all of the caucuses had been today, then yes. But as it was, enough votes were cast before his triple victories that he really started in too big of a hole to come back from.

[Keystone Phil]

What? There was a caucus today? Huh?








Even if he seriously contested it, this wasn't your average caucus and it just isn't his territory. Yeah, he could have done (gotten 25-30% perhaps?) but he wasn't going to win.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

If the caucus had all been today, he could have taken enough of the anti-Paul vote away from Romney to let Paul win, but as things were actually scheduled, no.

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Some of the voting was before Santorum surged.

[Eraserhead]

Some of the voting was before Santorum surged.

All of the voting in CO, MO and MN was before he surged nationally.

[Indy Texas]

Some of the voting was before Santorum surged.

There are some verbs you just can't use with Santorum's last name and "surge" is one of them. Other things you cannot say include:

"A Santorum wave is cascading across the Super Tuesday states."

"Santorum has been all over this issue. It's gotten really dirty."

"You're going to have Santorum in the Oval Office, and four or eight years from now someone's going to have to clean up the mess Santorum leaves behind. It's not gonna be pretty."

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Some of the voting was before Santorum surged.

All of the voting in CO, MO and MN was before he surged nationally.

People voting in CO and MN could see that he was winning MO big.

[Keystone Phil]

Some of the voting was before Santorum surged.

All of the voting in CO, MO and MN was before he surged nationally.

All had sizable segments of the population (social conservatives/Evangelicals) that have been attracted to him. Maine does not.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Nah. With the amount of campaigning Ron Paul did and with the proximity of Maine to Massachusetts...it was a lock that Romney or Paul was going to win. Santorum should be happy he did as well as he did.