Mitt Romney's independent support keeps on shriveling (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
New data from Pew confirms
the finding from last month's
NBC/WSJ poll: Mitt Romney's support from independents is indeed shrinking.
By a lot:
DemFromCT
has more on the Pew poll, including Santorum's surge with social conservatives. But even if Republicans don't ultimately nominate Rick Santorum, the end result will be that Mitt Romney was forced to suck up to the GOP's nutty base. And if that happens, he'll be even more toxic to independent moderates, backed into a corner by the very same lunatics who thought nominating Sharron Angle, Joe Miller, Christine O'Donnell and Ken Buck were good ideas.