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div class=”dkimg-c” defang_xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”img width=”282″ height=”174″ src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/1054/Goposaur.jpg” alt=”GOPosaur” / div class=”dkimg-cap”The symbol of a wacko core that wants to impose their wacko views on the country/div /div The Republicans have a a href=”http://www.politico.com/playbook/0212/playbook1699.html”problem/a.

div defang_xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” class=”dkimg-c”img width=”550″ height=”351″ alt=”Rick Santorum” src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/151025/Santorum_-_Sarah_Conard-_Reuters.jpg” / div class=”dkimg-cap”(Sarah Conard/Reuters)/div /div When last we checked up on GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, the semi-popular Sinclair Lewis character was threatening to upset Mitt Romney in the Michigan primary, primarily on the strength of his spectacular Dana Carveyesque Church Lady impressions.

div defang_xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” class=”dkimg-c”img width=”550″ height=”351″ alt=”Rick Santorum” src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/151025/Santorum_-_Sarah_Conard-_Reuters.jpg” / div class=”dkimg-cap”(Sarah Conard/Reuters)/div /div When last we checked up on GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, the semi-popular Sinclair Lewis character was threatening to upset Mitt Romney in the Michigan primary, primarily on the strength of his spectacular Dana Carveyesque Church Lady impressions.

pimg src=”http://www.dailykos.com/i/user/59419/Daily_Kos_Elections_Polling_Wrap.jpg” //p pThis morning, Chuck Todd and the rest of the gang at MSNBC’s a href=”http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/18/10181450-first-thoughts-newt-mentum-returns”First Read/a sounded a very interesting alarm:/p blockquoteThere are some increasing signs — though all of it anecdotal for now — that Newt Gingrich is gaining some momentum three days before the South Carolina primary.

pimg src=”http://www.dailykos.com/i/user/59419/Daily_Kos_Elections_Polling_Wrap.jpg” //p pThis morning, Chuck Todd and the rest of the gang at MSNBC’s a href=”http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/18/10181450-first-thoughts-newt-mentum-returns”First Read/a sounded a very interesting alarm:/p blockquoteThere are some increasing signs — though all of it anecdotal for now — that Newt Gingrich is gaining some momentum three days before the South Carolina primary.

div id=”uimg_right”img src=”http://www.dailykos.com/i/user/59419/Penn_Flag_275.png” / div id=”uimg_caption”Pennsylvania is quickly becoming a must-watch state/div /div pLooking ahead to the 2012 elections, one of the burning questions has been what will become of the key large states of the industrial Midwest. Ohio and Pennsylvania were central not only to the Obama election in 2008, but the Democratic surge to control of Congress in 2006 and 2008.

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/191280/GOP-PrimaryDebate.jpg” alt=”GOP 2012 Debate” height=”100″ width=”550″ / div defang_class=”dkimg-capquot;”Talk about it here. Watch it live on Bloomberg TV or a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics?hpid=z1″washingtonpost.com/a.br //div /div pspan class=”update”b5:11 PM PT/b:/span OWS makes it’s debate debut, in the form of a question about OWS from Tumulty to Gingrich.

div class=”dkimg-r”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/191280/RTR2RP7P.jpg” alt=”Cain and Romney” height=”202″ width=”275″ / div class=”dkimg-cap”The two happiest men in the Republican Partybr / (Scott Audette/Reuters)br / nbsp;/div /div With a href=”http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/09/24/herman_cain_wins_florida_straw_poll.html”this result/a, is Rick Perry’s campaign pretty much over? blockquoteORLANDO, Fla.

pa href=”http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/09/11/rel15a.pdf”ORC for CNN/a (PDF). 9/9-11. Republicans.

Public Policy Polling (8/18-21, Republican primary voters): Rick Perry : 33 Mitt Romney : 20 Michele Bachmann : 16 Newt Gingrich : 8 Herman Cain : 6 Ron Paul : 6 Rick Santorum : 4 Someone else/not sure : 5 Jon Huntsman : 3 (MoE: ±3.8%) Obviously, the GOP nominating process is a state-by-state affair, so national surveys are really only useful for observing trends, but wow, what a trend for Rick Perry. It’s the first PPP national survey since his announcement, but in pre-announcement polling he registered in the low teens.