What if this happens who will you vote for?

[Maxwell]

In this situation, Obama. Anything to stave off Rick Santorum, one of the craziest social conservatives as well as one of the most corrupt politicians ever.

[Maxwell]

Same as Opebo, but with PA, VA and FL to Santorum. 

There is no way Pennsylvania is voting for him over Obama when they might not have even voted for him over MITT ROMNEY, who will surely lose the state in November.

[Maxwell]

Now i took every state and added Obama's total by 5% and subtracted 5% from McCain, and here's what i think would happen if Santorum were the nominee:

Of course that is a huge improvement on how I think Gingrich would preform, where i subtracted 10 from McCain and added 10 to Obama. I know it's simplistic and he's already done, why kick a man while he's done, but this map is humorous.

[Maxwell]

To apply that sort of uniform swing is idiotic.  There's every reason to believe that Santorum would actually improve on McCain's numbers in most of the states that McCain won in 2008.

Most of the GOP collapse would be in the Obama states. Furthermore, Santorum would be free to do certain things to appeal to the middle that Romney can't.  A Romney/Rice ticket is impossible because the base would never stand for it, but while they would grumble, a Santorum/Rice ticket would be acceptable to the base.

That said, the article didn't say Santorum would get the nod, but whoever Romney picks as his running mate, and that definitely will not be Santorum.

In the south, Santorum's numbers would probably rise, but there's no way in hell Santorum would do better outside that area, because while Santorums win would rally the base some (he's still fiscally more liberal than the party would probably like), it would rally the democrats FAR more.