Nobody believed me, but I was right! Santorum is the media's new frontrunner!

I find it n odd coincidence that shortly before his poll bump, a few news channels started mentioning his name in connection with terms like "dark horse" and "Iowa surprise" and such. Almost the very next day after they started doing this, the Iowa GOP announces it was going to now be tallying the caucus resort at an "undisclosed location". Now we have a few polls out there with Santorum making a bit of a climb. I am going to go one further than you and make the perhaps paranoid, conspiratorial prediction that Santorum is going to "win" (wink wink nudge nudge) Iowa.

I attended Romney's meeting today. It was very interesting and nice. Santorum is very conservative, and may be president in 4 to 8 years.

It seems like media is predicting this race, but it looks like everyone has a different candidate that they see as being the forerunner for the GOP.

You're right, Taskr, I have to give you this one! I know I didn't expect Santorum to ever be anything but an after-thought, someone in LOW single digits with no prayer of placing in the top five anywhere, including my own state! I do take issue with you just a LITTLE bit since the other candidates you referred to DID lead some polls at the time they were being called the "frontrunners". I don't personally give any credence to straw polls since only the most die-hard political activists generally participate in them but the telephone polls are slightly more credible. I still don't see how even a couple thousand potential voters out of millions can determine how the entire country will vote. It's all in how the questions are asked and whether the respondents give honest answers. Annie

I think we should wait and see. The polls I have seen all show Ron Paul in Second and could easily take Iowa which if it goes that way his campaign will get a big boost even if the Main Stream media doesn't want him to. I have to ask do people still care about what the mainstream media actually thinks. I mean really do people care. I go and look at them to find out what is happening which generally requires me to look to find the actual story because the Main Stream media while not lying put their views into it. I generally try to avoid this but well as a Political Commentator myself it is pretty much impossible. Santorum will be the frontrunner of running last.

Taskr, if you could find your name on a straw poll ballet you too could be the front runner. The problem is that there is no real front runner, and the only guy that has a shot of beating Obama is Romney, but NO BODY LIKES HIM!!!! So now what do you do? I don't know.

Santorum is surging from behind! Ew. I stopped taking the media seriously on presidential campaigns back in '08. They get higher viewership ratings from creating controversy where there is none rather than actually telling things like they are.

It's amazing how we allow the media to control things, isn't it? I see all this shuffling as an effort to make sure the least viable candidate is nominated. With Cain I think the puppet masters saw someone who might bring real change to gov't and had to be eliminated at all costs. Now they are having the media manipulate the candidates and the coverage, trying to get a Santorum or Gingrich nominated. Santorum would not be elected because of his firm stands on some unpopular issues and Gingrich would probably fail because of his personal baggage, not to mention his aloofness and dealings with Fanny and Freddy. That would mean 4 more years of destruction and misery as the easily manipulated people re-elected our current prez. I do hope common sense prevails and people see how they are being manipulated. Not likely, but I can still dream.

Dear Taskr, This is terrific news! I like Rick Santorum! If he were the Republican nominee, I would vote for him. Happy New Year!