Nobody outworks Rick Santorum. The guy has already had breakfast with business leaders in Manchester, NH, today and will have corned beef & cabbage in Concord at noon. Turn on your local conservative talk radio station and chances are good he'll be on there too -- in the next two days he's scheduled to be on two stations in NH, one in NYC and another in Fargo, North Dakota.

The Coen brothers went from tossing a dude into a woodchipper to an Oscar win nine years later. Can our former senator due the same on the way to a presidential nomination? Real Clear Politics has a story on Santorum trying to help Mitt Romney with evangelicals in 2008, over Mike Huckabee and John McCain. Get this dig on the eventual nominee:

"It was clear to me that the race was down to two people [and] that while I like Mike Huckabee and respect him a lot, I just didn't think he had the horsepower to win the race if it was one-on-one with McCain," Santorum recalled in an interview with RCP. "And I was for either Romney or Huckabee and felt that McCain would not be a strong candidate -- can't say I was all that wrong in that regard -- and that we'd be better off with either Romney or Huckabee."

Of course -- as is his wont -- Santorum is now going after Romney too in his home state, over health care. From the Boston Globe:

“I feel we need someone who is a strong, principled conservative who believes not in government mandates, not in government control of the health care system, but in a patient-centered approach to health care,” Santorum said.

So might his energy, attacks and evangelical attacks help him in the long run? That's certainly the strategy and among those who vote in primaries he has a pretty decent "positive intensity" according to a new Gallup poll. PI is the difference between "strongly favorable" and "strongly unfavorable" among GOP voters, and by that standard Santorum stands at 16% -- that's tied with Sarah Palin, a notch above Romney and four points below the #2 winner, Michele Bachman. The major winner in the poll is Huckabee at 25%. (GOP12)

Schedule: In New Hampshire. See above.