Like the famous racehorse Silky Sullivan, Sen. Rick Santorum is known as a great closer. Yet, months ago, he had been virtually given up for dead by pundits in his race against Bob Casey, Jr., son of the popular, pro-life, former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania. One poll early this year had Santorum down 23 points, an almost insurmountable deficit. A Strategic Value poll had Santorum down 16 points. Now the senator who had been written off is finishing fast. An average of all polls monitored by the RealClearPolitics.com website finds him trailing by 6 points. The most recent Strategic Value poll confirms it. Casey is at 47; Santorum, 41 and rising. What accounts for the surge? The Washington Times traces it to one issue: “Republican strategists say Santorum’s tough stand on immigration has become a key factor….
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Pat Buchanan, former U.S. presidential candidate, stands as the preeminent leader in America’s worst hour of crisis since the Civil War… Buchanan explains how social chaos spreads across America. The impacts at every level of American society explode with accelerating consequences by the day. Schools cannot teach America’s kids because Third World children do not speak English, lack educational fundamentals and separate into enclaves of an underclass. America’s hospitals suffer unpaid services for millions of illegals. In California, 86 hospitals and ER wards bankrupted in the past four years. MS-13 gangs stampede across America. Over $100 billion in drugs cross from Mexico into America annually. Prisons explode with 29 percent convicted illegal alien felons at an annual cost of $1.6 billion….
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