US election 2012: Mitt Romney mounting surprise charge in Southern states

Supporters of Mr Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator who has been Mr
Romney’s main rival in the last month, have called on Mr Gingrich to step
aside to unite the conservative vote but the pugnacious former Speaker again
refused over the weekend.

Mr Santorum, whose “insurgent” campaign is much less well organised
and funded than Mr Romney’s, claims that he is the authentic conservative
voice for grassroots Republicans.

“The speaker can stay in as long as he wants, but I think the better
opportunity to make sure that we nominate a conservative is to give us an
opportunity to go head-to-head with Gov Romney at some point, and hopefully
that will occur sooner rather than later,” Mr Santorum said.

However as Republicans continued to fight amongst themselves, the case for
urgently uniting to concentrate their fire on Mr Obama was strengthened by a
new poll that showed the president was being badly hurt by a sharp rises in
petrol prices.

The survey by ABC News and The Washington Post showed that despite a steadily
recovering economy and falling unemployment, Mr Obama’s job approval rating
had dropped to 46 per cent, with 50 per cent of Americans disapproving, an
exact reversal from early February.

If the presidential election were held today, the poll found that Mr Romney
would beat Mr Obama 49 per cent to 47 per cent, although national polls so
far ahead of a presidential election are notoriously fickle.

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