DMR: Santorum está que se sale

Des Moines Register:

Rick Santorum, who hasn’t held so much as a ten-spot through months of campaigning in Iowa, is suddenly drawing aces. If the trends reported today in the Register’s Iowa Poll continue, Santorum is in position to win the big pot come Tuesday night.

The Register’s pollster, J. Ann Selzer of Selzer & Co., said Saturday that she can’t remember seeing such a dramatic surge for a previous caucus candidate in the final days of polling. Santorum started at 10 percent on Tuesday night among likely GOP caucusgoers. He rocketed to 22 percent by the end of polling Friday, just 1 percentage point behind Mitt Romney. The four-day average puts him in third place at 15 percent, but he’s on fire, while Romney has held steady and Ron Paul has gone cold.