In a surprise to all the pundits - and even more so to Romney - Rick Santorum won all three caucuses yesterday, and won them by very wide margins. How could that be?
Simple.
Those states are in the "heartland" of America, where people still believe in hard work and live by common sense and logic. They still have traditional America values. They may or may not be "country bumpkins", but they are not fooled by city slickers with smooth tongues.
So, they could not vote for Romney, whom they see as a not-so-conservative moderate who does not even know their values, let alone share them. And they can't quite get behind Gingrich because they see through the pandering, and dislike the "I'm smarter" attitude. And Ron Paul - well, the heartland strongly believes in military might to keep the wolves away, and Mr Paul is not big on military.
So that left Santorum. And while it took most pundits by surprise, I'm not the least bit surprised. I can't see how it could have gone any other way.
Perhaps if more of the pundits lived in the heartland....
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