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By PATRICK O'CONNOR And JANET HOOK

MANCHESTER, N.H. Riding some sort of mound in country's polls right after his good demonstrating in Iowa, Republican presidential pick Rick Santorum looked for Thursday in order to erode competing Mitt Romney's substantive direct by painting disparities with scheme and track record regarding GOP voters below and nationwide.

Mr. Santorum placed themselves since a strong recommend intended for blue-collar trades-people and their own financially dark communities, wanting to help monetize about variations using Mr. Romney, a wealthy previous private-equity investor in addition to son of your Michigan governor, in a very GOP industry reshaped by way of Iowa's caucuses.

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Rick Santorum converse throughout a 'Faith, Family as well as Freedom' city arena with Northfield, N.H., on Thursday.

Two nation's polls have listed excellent bounce regarding Mr. Santorum. A Gallup market research this included Wednesday, in a given period following this individual displaced in order to Mr. Romney around Iowa with a razor-thin margin, showed Mr. Santorum spiking to be able to 11% help support along with final place within the race, in comparison to 3% within delayed December. A Rasmussen questionnaire Wednesday confirmed Mr. Santorum throughout following place, with 21%, behind Mr. Romney's 29%.

As he / she campaigned in New Hampshire, that retains it has the GOP primary Tuesday, Mr. Santorum talked regarding programs in order to restore blue-collar communities. His speeches were peppered by using memory associated with his coal-miner grandfather, in addition to information regarding his / her blueprints in order to bring back U.S. manufacturing. For many voters, it included a different aspect to some pick referred to as an challenger of abortion as well as gay marriage.

"A wide range of azure collar trades-people were left behind inside America," Mr. Santorum stated Thursday inside Manchester. Later, during your advertising campaign occasion inside Tilton, he stated their family members and also his friends' individuals possessed did wonders throughout factories. To a person that asked about production workers "sitting with home,'' Mr. Santorum replied: "My program will be 'Made inside America.'"

Despite some sort of come-from-behind surge Tuesday in Iowa, Mr. Santorum fronts substantial issues in next week's GOP primary . Mr. Romney offers lead 40% support in most polls of New Hampshire Republicans, though Mr. Santorum, even though rising, still lags powering from a express in which GOP primary voters usually are wealthier plus a lesser amount of socially old-fashioned compared to those people throughout Iowa. Abortion, for example, resonates a long way a reduced amount of while a problem here, online surveys show.

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