MICHIGAN DEMS POWER SANTORUM
By DICK MORRIS
Published on DickMorris.com on February 29, 2012
Printer-Friendly Version Did Romney eek out a victory in Michigan? No. He actually won by a hefty margin. Did he lose blue collar voters, showing weakness in that key sector? No. He carried them quite nicely.
So why don't the results reflect this? Because the primary was invaded by Democrats who largely voted for Santorum. Had the Democrats not done so, Romney would not have won a narrow 3 point victory in Michigan but would be celebrating a 7 point comfortable victory.
According to the Fox News exit polls, 9 percent of the 1.1 million votes cast in the primary were by Democrats who voted for Santorum over Romney by 53-18. 17 percent of these would-be spoilers voted for Paul and 3 percent backed Gingrich. The remainder voted for Obama or an uncommitted slate in the Democratic primary where they belonged.
Had these Democrats not cast ballots in the Republican primary for Santorum, Romney would have been hailed as the easy winner last night.
We have to give Romney credit for an overwhelming win in Arizona and a significant sized victory in Michigan in view of these results. But, more importantly, we have to ask why these Democrats voted for Santorum.
Some of these Santorum voters were possibly pro-life Democrats who crossed party lines because they feared that Romney might go back to his pro-choice ways. But this was a most unusually large Democratic turnout when their own party did not have a contest. (Witness that 90% of the Democrats who participated voted in the Republican primary).
The turnout was, undoubtedly, deliberately orchestrated by the unions and the formidable Michigan Democratic organization in the hopes of nominating Santorum and upending Romney in his home state. It takes quite a bit of effort to turn out 100,000 Democrats to vote in the Republican primary. Why were the Democrats so intent on beating Romney and helping Santorum?
Rightly or wrongly, they - and the Obama high command - must believe that Romney would be the tougher candidate to beat in November.
The opposition has clearly and unambiguously endorsed Santorum and indicated its fear of Romney.
Shouldn't we listen to them? Isn't it important to take account of which candidate the opposition fears? Do we want to give them a Republican nominee they feel they can defeat or one of whom they are afraid?
Obviously, the Democratic chieftains believe that Santorum's position on social issues will give Obama plenty to run against in a general election. His opposition to contraception (although he does not want to make it illegal) and to amniocentesis (which he says leads to abortion) would make inviting targets for negative ads in the general election.
The Democrats want to run against Santorum.
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Dick Morris is well known for his insightful and hard-hitting commentary on the FOXNews channel. With his wife, Eileen McGann, Dick has written 14 books, including 10 NY Times best-sellers. Together they pen almost daily columns for their website www.DickMorris.com, the New York Post, Newsmax, the Hill Magazine and many other publications. Domestically, Morris has handled the winning campaigns of more than 30 Senators and Governors, including President Bill Clinton and Republican Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott. Internationally, he has piloted the successful campaigns of the president or prime minister of Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Kenya, Hungary, Poland, Taiwan, and Japan.
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