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The conventional wisdom says Mitt Romney is the candidate that President Obama and his allies fear, while they’re allegedly salivating at the thought of facing Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum. Of course, conventional wisdom didn’t have Santorum coming from sixth place in the polls with three weeks to go and effectively tying Romney in Iowa — where he and Romney ended up separated by just 0.007 percent of the vote.

Rockingham, N.H.
You could see the growing pains right off the bat Wednesday night: Rick Santorum’s first post-Iowa event was booked at a conference room in a nursing home. The space had seats for 120 people or so, with standing room for perhaps another 40, at most. The room was full an hour before Santorum was scheduled to appear.