Dan Hirschhorn reports:
Rick Santorum captured a home-state straw poll win of Pennsylvania Republicans on Friday night.
Santorum, the two-term Pennsylvania senator, won 36 percent of the vote from state committee members, beating Mitt Romney?s 25 percent and Rick Perry?s 18 percent. No one else here cracked double-digits.
Santorum had the advantage in the state where he helped build the Republican Party, even though he didn?t attend the straw poll ? he was keynoting the Concerned Women for America annual dinner in Washington.
Santorum?s wife Karen delivered brief remarks before the vote, recounting his early political history of upset wins for House and Senate, and was awarded a standing ovation.
?I know a lot of people have doubts and have dismissed him, but as you all know, we?ve been there before,? she said. ?This race is wide open, and we should not let the national media pick the candidates.?
Santorum has been successfully making noise and getting himself into the conversation lately.
Far away from Pennsylvania, Santorum has been working aggressively to court activists in Iowa and South Carolina, trying to build on his closer-than-expected Ames Straw Poll finish. Despite his poll position, Iowa caucus-goers are known for going after who they think "should" be the nominee, as opposed to who "will," and Santorum's appeal among evangelicals gives him something to build on.
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