but in CT, I’ll likely be voting Santorum. to keep mmitt from getting a sweep. The treshold in CT is 20%, with a 50% winner-take-all rule. So RS will get his 20%, Newt could keep mR under the 50% level.
this is the text of an email I got from a pastor in CT last week. He is working very hard for Newt, and has prepped this strategy for CT... I will be talking to him sometime this evening if we can connect, but if you would like to participate with him, I can send you his email and phone in CT.
"I decided last night that I am sick and tired of all the Establishment Folks who really are NOT like us giving Obama another 4 years. Newt is the ONLY Candidate that can logically beat Obama and here's why: I personally believe that the Democrats orchestrated a Health Care Bill that would be tossed out because they did not put a Severability Clause in it. Think about it for one moment, do you really think that Obama, the Democrats and the legal scholars that wrote that ObamaCare really omitted it in error? That makes no sense.
While I personally am opposed to Barack Obama's policies, I think he is a brilliant politician intent on winning re-election. For that reason, I personally am convinced that ObamaCare is positioned to be Obama's number one re-election issue. I can just hear him now "These Republicans don't care about your health. They have stacked the Court with Justices that want to see you denied medical care. We must change that."
Now think about it: Who is best positioned to argue against Obamacare: Romney who wrote RomneyCare, which ObamaCare was mirrored after?, Santorum who frankly can not seem to validate any position whatsoever sustainable against Obama? Newt the MASTER of all debates and logical solutions? or Paul who although offers unrealistic change and simply can not relate to the people with these extreme positions. Obviously it is Newt and make no mistake: OBAMACARE is the most important issue in United States History!
So the long and the short of it is this. I believe that We the People are the only ones that can get Newt elected. I have a simple strategy but I need help.
The Strategy is this: Win the election one vote at a time. To do this we need to undertake a huge task, which is to identify our supporters and get them to vote. Here in CT, we are dealing with about 150,000 likely Republican Voters. We have decided to identify the voters from the towns that had the best voter turn out (over 40%) and we need help. I am asking you to make a commitment of 5, 10, or 20 minutes a day making either 5, 10 or 20 calls a day keeping track of Newt supporters and ultimately getting them to vote on Primary day, which is April 24, 2012. We will give you the names and numbers, but we need REAL PEOPLE who ARE COMMITTED to do this.
If you can make a commitment to do this and perhaps find 5 other people to do the same, I believe Newt can cause and upset here in CT and then we'll move on to the next State. I am tired and I am not waiting for some miracle worker to figure out whats wrong here. We are the miracle workers! If Newt wins 3 more states, he will be on the floor for the first vote. As it stands Newt can only be considered after the first round of voting at the convention (which would be Romney and Santorum first at this time). This is my opinion: The strategy is simple: Keep Romney from getting 1000 committed delegates (because anything less than 1000 will be difficult for him to find 144 for the first round of delegate voting at the convention) and work to get Newt 3 more States. CT is small but it is within striking reach if we get out the vote."
if your pastor is not aware of the 20% threshold rule in CT ... his strategies don’t mean much.
Newt won’t get 20% because I doubt he will campaign here. so i am sure you understand how his votes do not count on allocating delegates as he would be under the threshold.