Oubliez le New Hampshire, pensez plutôt à la Caroline du sud...

Bien d'accord avec l'opinion exprimée dans cet article. le New Hampshire est dans la poche pour Romney, son véritable test, et celui de Santorum, sera la Caroline du sud. "While the results from the Iowa caucuses and a stream of national primary polling confirm that Republicans haven’t settled on Romney as their 2012 candidate, none of his rivals has yet been able to vault ahead of the pack and mount a sustained challenge to the former Massachusetts governor. Now, Republicans in and outside the presidential campaigns believe South Carolina is the best — and maybe the only — opportunity left to put Romney’s grasp on the nomination in real peril. “South Carolina will become the ground on which an ‘ABM’ movement starts to coalesce — the anybody-but-Mitt crowd,” said Republican strategist and veteran South Carolina hand Tucker Eskew. “Perhaps not successfully, but there will be a drive to coalesce that vote.” For conservatives in particular, Eskew said the state is the most logical place to begin “concentrating firepower on Gov. Romney’s right flank.” Romney’s opponents plainly agree. Even before the start of the Iowa caucuses on Tuesday, Newt Gingrich was pointing to South Carolina as the place where he would aim to take out Romney. “The gap between Romney’s moderate Massachusetts views and Southern conservatism is, oh, about the distance from Boston to Charleston,” Gingrich said at one campaign stop. Rick Perry is staking his whole campaign on the state, effectively skipping New Hampshire. The Texan lobbed a Gingrich-like attack in Romney’s direction in a CNN interview before the caucuses: “A Massachusetts governor that put individual mandates in place that Obama took as the model to create Obamacare is not going to sell in South Carolina.” And for weeks, Iowa almost-winner Rick Santorum has told voters that he hoped to finish strong in Iowa, beat expectations in New Hampshire — and then truly take control of the race in South Carolina."

  http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71090.html