Windham, N.H.

The auditorium at Windham High School seats 660, but the fire marshal tells me the crowd for Rick Santorum’s fifth event on Thursday overflowed with more than 700 in attendance. But even with this big audience, Santorum looks tired and gives a low energy, pedestrian performance.

That is, until just before the end of the program, when a friendly questioner tells him, “Don’t ever apologize for your faith in Christ.” To a large degree, Santorum has sublimated the overt religious talk he used in Iowa, instead emphasizing freedom. But with the tiniest bit of prompting, he returned to form. It’s worth showing his answer at some length:

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