Santorum leads polls as primary nears

Barack Obama won pop­u­lar sup­port in Amherst in the 2008 pres­i­den­tial election.

Now all eyes are on the field of Repub­li­can con­tenders who want to remove him from the White House.

As the March 6 pri­mary nears, Rick San­to­rum leads in the polls with 33 per­cent sup­port of likely Repub­li­can vot­ers. Mitt Rom­ney trails by a sin­gle point.

But num­bers from the Asso­ci­ated Press show Obama still holds a 50 per­cent bul­wark when mea­sured against each of the can­di­dates seek­ing the GOP nomination.

We asked our Amherst friends on Face­book who they would like to see run against Obama.

Reader Bruce McGloth­lin said he’d like to see San­to­rum lead the Repub­li­cans in the fall.

“He is a man of faith in this land where we seem to have lost our moral com­pass,” he wrote.

For more on the upcom­ing pres­i­den­tial pri­mary and more Amherst opin­ions and facts, read the Feb. 29, 2012 print edi­tion of the Amherst News-Times.

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