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Santorum gets some good news?

Here is an interesting bit of news. A new Rasmussen poll shows Rick Santorum beating Barak Obama. (h/t The Deacon's Bench.) Quoting Rasmussen

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 26% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14 (see trends).
In a potential Election 2012 matchup, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is at 45% while President Obama earns 44%. This is the first time in any poll that Santorum has led the president. Several other GOP challengers have led the president a single time in the polls including Rick Perry, Herman Cain, and Newt Gingrich. Each man briefly held the lead while they were surging in the polls, only to fall quickly. It remains to be seen what will happen to Santorum’s support.
Santorum gets 78% of the Republican vote and leads by ten among those not affiliated with either major party. President Obama get 83% of the Democratic vote in that matchup. Santorum leads by 16 points among men but trails by 12 among women. As is typically the case in all matchups, the president leads among those under 40 while the GOP hopeful leads among those who are over 40.

Now what is very unusual is that when i first checked the Rasmussen site, I read the quote referenced above. I then made the link. Five minutes later, when I was about to leave this post and was doing a final check, the paragraph quoted was removed from the Rasmussen article.


So here is an interesting question: Is there a concerted effort by the media to just ignore Santorum? do they think that because he is not polling strong enough, he is out of it and therefore it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy? Or is it more that there is more excitement in a two man race? With this poll the argument that Santorum is not "electable" goes out the window. But if the story disappears.....

posted by Jakubczyk on Life @ 7:49 AM