Despite all that time in Iowa, Santorum didn't see substantial traction in polls until January as Gingrich withered in the heat of negative ads from Romney's campaign and a super PAC that supports him.
In nations where merely qualifying for the World Cup is tantamount to winning the Super Bowl, the game is often played on cruddy fields under tropical heat in front of crowds nasty enough to get inside the U.S. team's collective head.