9 Signs Your Campaign Dreams Are Over
By Gregory J. Krieg
Momentum is the darling of every political campaign. Advisers and operatives are paid millions each election season to help their bosses seize it. But the effects cut both ways. After a few brief surges, Rick Santorum's candidacy has finally, and perhaps fatally, caught the bad strain - the one that looks like an unbreakable, interminable death spiral.
If only he knew it.
Here now, for the former senator and so many other politicians who couldn't see it was time to kindly leave the stage, is a simple guide to knowing when your campaign has run its course:
Your opponent has stopped mentioning you in speeches.
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Your bowling score on a given day gets more publicity than anything else you said or did.
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You are repeatedly likening your campaign to Ronald Reagan's … from 1976.
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You are banking on a state that voted you out of office by an 18-point margin six years ago to save your campaign.
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The Duggar family clogs the room at some of your events.
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Even the people who used to like you, and maybe still do, are voting for the other guy.
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The party's national committee is raising money for and with your opponent - the same opponent who outspent you four-to-one in the last primary state.
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Endorsements! They rarely swing a race, but they can seal it.
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You are caught cussing at - or in response to - reporters on a rope line.
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