What if this happens who will you vote for?

[Maxwell]

To apply that sort of uniform swing is idiotic.  There's every reason to believe that Santorum would actually improve on McCain's numbers in most of the states that McCain won in 2008.

Most of the GOP collapse would be in the Obama states. Furthermore, Santorum would be free to do certain things to appeal to the middle that Romney can't.  A Romney/Rice ticket is impossible because the base would never stand for it, but while they would grumble, a Santorum/Rice ticket would be acceptable to the base.

That said, the article didn't say Santorum would get the nod, but whoever Romney picks as his running mate, and that definitely will not be Santorum.

In the south, Santorum's numbers would probably rise, but there's no way in hell Santorum would do better outside that area, because while Santorums win would rally the base some (he's still fiscally more liberal than the party would probably like), it would rally the democrats FAR more.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

To apply that sort of uniform swing is idiotic.  There's every reason to believe that Santorum would actually improve on McCain's numbers in most of the states that McCain won in 2008.

Most of the GOP collapse would be in the Obama states. Furthermore, Santorum would be free to do certain things to appeal to the middle that Romney can't.  A Romney/Rice ticket is impossible because the base would never stand for it, but while they would grumble, a Santorum/Rice ticket would be acceptable to the base.

That said, the article didn't say Santorum would get the nod, but whoever Romney picks as his running mate, and that definitely will not be Santorum.

In the south, Santorum's numbers would probably rise, but there's no way in hell Santorum would do better outside that area, because while Santorum's win would rally the base some (he's still fiscally more liberal than the party would probably like), it would rally the democrats FAR more.

How so?  The Democrats whose main concerns are social issues have no real reason to prefer Romney over Santorum.  They both exude Republican orthodoxy there, albeit Rick is more profuse in his exudation.  Now if this were an election about the social issues, Santorum would do significantly worse among independents than Romney, but social conservatism was not, is not, and will not be what the election is about.  And as I said, Santorum has a solid enough reputation on the social issues that he could have gone big tent and selected a running mate who deviates from GOP orthodoxy on some of them.  Romney can't.

[BaldEagle1991]

In those very unlikely circumstances....

GEORGIA going for OBAMA?!?!?!

[morgieb]

In those very unlikely circumstances....

GEORGIA going for OBAMA?!?!?!

Here I'm assuming that the Pubbies will be so damaged by their original candidate being a corrupt crook that Obama wins in a landslide.