"Please Get out Gingrich" from Santorum

Following the results of Super Tuesday, Santorum’s super PAC, the Red White and blue fund, "prodd[ed] Mr. Gingrich to abandon the race so that conservatives could unite behind [his] candidacy against Mr. Romney". At first, Santorum tried to have Gingrich withdraw as a favor to the conservative movement but since this tactic yielded no results, the chorus of appeals from his supporters began on Wednesday. Gingrich has rejected these proposals and thus there is a battle forming where we can prepare to see the two vying for the position as the main opposition to Mr. Romney. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/us/politics/as-romney-leads-santorum-and-gingrich-turn-on-each-other.html?_r=1&hp)

"If Santorum had received Gingrich's 14.6 percent in Ohio that would have put Santorum at 51.6 percent to Romney's 38 percent." (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/07/rick-santorum-newt-gingrich_n_1326431.html) This news is terribly important as I can recall this being the case and a very large one when there were other candidates for the GOP nomination. If someone was dropping out or speculating to drop out, the media’s ears were fully open and attentive to whom the former candidate would endorse. Not only did this add to the limited amount of votes the candidate gets but also the affirmative from the poll of the people. An adviser of the Red, white and blue fund, Stuart Roy said, “With Gingrich exiting the race it would be a true head-to-head race and conservatives would be able to make a choice between a consistent conservative in Rick Santorum or Mitt Romney," Roy wrote. "For instance, with Gingrich out of the race Santorum would have won both Ohio and Michigan. Newt has become a hindrance to a conservative alternative.”

Romney is happy for the rivalry with his fellow contenders since the attention is off of him for a little while and “as long as Santorum and Gingrich continue to cancel out each other” then he can win the nomination. Others argue that Romney’s campaign method is to keep both of them in there as long as possible because he actually fears what would happen if it was a one-to-one race with him and Santorum. According to the New York Times, Romney’s campaign “wants all of his rivals to stay in the race: they are dividing up the available delegates, making it harder for any single candidate to catch up with his lead” (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/us/politics/as-romney-leads-santorum-and-gingrich-turn-on-each-other.html?_r=1&hp)

The interesting part of this situation to me is that in Alabama, Gingrich didn’t directly answer the question as to his dropping out of the race but instead changed the subject to how Santorum again was an unsuitable candidate for the choice as Republican nominee. Yet, when the people were polled, they said that Romney fell short of Santorum when it came to “which candidate best understood the problems of average Americans,” (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/us/politics/no-super-tuesday-knockout-punch.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fpolitics%2Findex.jsonp). These ambiguous results prove that we have to wait out the elections and their true results considering that no candidate has had an overwhelming victory.