'God Is Good'

“God is good.”

Michael Biundo posted those three words on Facebook–with a CNN screenshot showing Rick Santorum winning Alabama and Mississippi–to hail his candidate’s success Tuesday.

“Wow,” commented Bill Cahill, one of Santorum’s three co-chairmen in New Hampshire, among the many friends offering cyber applause.

Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney picked up delegates and repeated that the GOP nomination is now a matter of math: with his campaign the inevitable answer. But Santorum’s supporters in New Hampshire (and Biundo, his campaign manager, is from Manchester) are as confident as ever.

Inevitable nominee? Try again, they say.

And Santorum, in an email blast, declared it a brand new ballgame. He wrote:

"For months, the media and the establishment have told conservatives like us that we don't have a choice – Mitt Romney will be our nominee, whether we like it or not. They want to silence our campaign, but most importantly they don't want your voice to be heard. Well, I'm here to tell you that last night conservatives spoke out and turned the campaign upside down."

One of Romney's New Hampshire supporters used a sports analogy to shrug off Santorum's victories. As Romney himself as likened, "Some of the primaries in the southern states were going to be away games," said D.J. Bettencourt, a Salem Republican who is Majority Leader in the New Hampshire House of Representatives.

"The states that are left should be Romney-friendly," Bettencourt said in an interview with Patch on Wednesday.

It's been more than two months since the New Hampshire Presidential Primary, in which Santorum placed fourth. Santorum just eclipsed Newt Gingrich in the southern states, and he has now positioned himself, his supporters say, as the only conservative alternative to Romney.

"God is good."

But is Santorum good enough–and has he enough time left–to upset Romney? His faithful in New Hampshire believe so.