a eric partridge was hugely authoritative in the field of slang and neologism in english b he died prior to any of the events under discussion here making him an unreliable source on them c the talk campaign for santorum neologism archive partridge revisited quote given appears to be a posthumous updating of his book alas i don't have access to this specific edition d even if the quote were authoritative it cannot be used either for or against the word neologism in this context because while it describes santorum as 'the child of a one man campaign' and not having wide usage at the time of print naturally it neither says nor implies that it is not a neologism