Daily Santorum: The Path

On Fox News, Bret Baier gets to the heart of the matter with Rick Santorum: how on earth can he win the GOP presidential nomination with no money and only a couple percentage points in the polls? Santorum says it's "absurd" to say the field is set. From Fox:

SANTORUM: Yeah, the path is the path that has been taken by many people in Iowa, which is to go out there and work very hard on the grassroots level, build a team, get the kind of support from key interest groups, which we are in the process of doing, and surprise people on primary day. That's been the path from day one. It's a grassroots strategy. It's working well for us. We have been to about 70 counties so far in Iowa, far more than everybody else.

BAIER: But when you see those polls at three percent.

SANTORUM: Those polls don't mean anything to me at all. I mean I have heard this from folks from Iowa. I have heard this from folks in New Hampshire. This race breaks late. Look, if you would have showed the poll two weeks ago -- three weeks ago, Herman Cain would have been at four percent. He is now at 30 percent. There was a Pew poll taken the other day that said over half the people in the country couldn't even name one of us.

So the idea that that this is anywhere near set is just absurd. And I'm just going to keep going out and focusing. I hope you guys keep talking us down that we have no chance, because when we come in there and finish in second, third, or first place, you'll say, wow, where did this guy come from?

Speaking of grassroots Iowa efforts, Santorum will be shooting pheasants with conservative Rep. Steve King in rural northwest Iowa on Sunday. Rick Perry will be there the day before, reports the DM Register. The weekend after he'll be at the Iowa Faith & Freedom banquet at the state fairgrounds, along with Perry, Gingrich, Paul and Bachmann.