What Happens if Rick Santorum Wins Iowa?

There is a growing feeling that Sen. Rick Santorum could very well win the Iowa Caucuses on Tuesday. It is clear he has the momentum and the “buzz” heading into the last two days before the Caucuses. So, what happens if he wins Iowa? Zeke Miller at Buzzfeed has an article out today saying Santorum very well may win the Iowa Caucuses – and nothing else:

BUZZFEED: Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum and his aides were frantically refreshing laptops and phones to see the results of Saturday’s Des Moines Register poll yesterday evening, results that showed him within striking distance of Mitt Romney, but it probably didn’t matter: The last surging Republican candidate is uniquely ill-suited to snatch the nomination from Mitt Romney.

Santorum huddled with staff members outside a restroom here trying to access the poll following one of his largest rallies of the campaign. Like tens of thousands of other political junkies Saturday night, he was locked out of the results after the Register’s website crashed under the load, and only learned of the results after BuzzFeed’s correspondent showed him a tweet on his laptop. . . . .

Little changes if Santorum wins the Iowa caucuses. It will still be Mitt Romney’s game to lose.

Santorum lacks the organization and fundraising to compete in the next two voting states, South Carolina and New Hampshire. . . . Read More

If Santorum wins Iowa, I would not assume he can’t win other places. He will get tremendous buzz and could do well in South Carolina, where he actually has made a lot of visits. To be sure, it will still be an uphill battle for him. But so was Iowa. Conservatives may decide to coalesce around Santorum, which would be really bad news for Mitt Romney.