… A day after Fox News announced that its Republican presidential primary debate in August would include only the 10 candidates polling the highest in national surveys, Rick Santorum denounced the criteria on Thursday. …
“The idea that a national poll has any relationship to the viability of a candidate — ask Rudy Giuliani that, ask Phil Gramm that,” he said, citing spectacular failures from the 2008 and 1996 Republican races. CONT.
Jonathan Martin, New York Times