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Gingrich opens up big leads in South Carolina and Florida [NBC/Marist poll - TEA PARTY POWER]
MSNBC ^ | Dec 11, 2012 | By NBC's Mark Murray

Posted on 12/11/2011 12:02:07 PM PST by Jim Robinson

"In a new NBC/Marist poll, Newt Gingrich has surged into the lead in Iowa, but Mitt Romney's big lead in New Hampshire remains. NBC's Mike Viqueira and David Gregory report."

Newt Gingrich’s surge in the polls isn’t limited to just the early presidential-nominating contest of Iowa. According to new NBC News-Marist polls, the former House speaker has now opened up commanding leads in South Carolina and Florida -- two states that historically have played important roles in deciding the eventual Republican nominee.

Fueled by the support from conservatives and the Tea Party, Gingrich is ahead of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by nearly 20 points in South Carolina. The winner of that state's primary has gone on to capture each GOP nomination since 1980.

And he leads Romney by double digits in Florida, whose primary ultimately ended up deciding the party’s pick in 2008.

“You can see why the Romney people are getting a little itchy,” said Lee Miringoff, the director of Marist College’s Institute for Public Opinion, referring to the Romney campaign’s recent attacks on Gingrich. Gingrich ahead “any way you slice it”

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Tea Party power

According to the two polls, Gingrich performs especially well among the most conservative primary voters.

Among Tea Party supporters -- who make up about half of all likely primary voters in South Carolina and Florida -- the former House speaker leads Romney by more than 30 percentage points in both states (51-20 percent in South Carolina and 57-22 percent in Florida).

Gingrich also enjoys huge leads among “conservative” and “very conservative” voters.

(Excerpt) Read more at firstread.msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Iowa; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: elections; florida; gingrich; hillbuzz; iowa; kevindujan; newt; newtgingrich; southcarolina; teapartyrebellion
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To: SumProVita; wardaddy

Sorry ‘bout the mis-understanding FRiend!


201 posted on 12/12/2011 7:02:35 AM PST by mmanager
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To: mmanager

No problem.....honestly.

;-))


202 posted on 12/12/2011 7:11:16 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: PapaNew

Its one of those conundrums but it is what it is. We’ve been in the trenches with Newt both on good terms and not but first things first. Stop Romney then we will worry about phase II.


203 posted on 12/12/2011 7:18:54 AM PST by Maelstorm (Better to keep your enemy in your sights than in your camp expecting him to guard your back.)
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To: Jim Robinson

I don’t knoiw if Gingrich will be the nominee or not, but in the meantime, I wish his advisors would get him on a crash diet. If for no reason other tha his health, at age 68, he could stand to lose about 80 Lbs.


204 posted on 12/12/2011 7:25:43 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Matchett-PI
"With his Osawatomie Speech on 12/06/2011, Obama has deliberately come out of the closet as a Communist, showing that communism is his objective. That speech was a Marxist attack on America, pure and simple."

Yet he still has a floor of low-to-mid-40s support among likely voters. That says volumes about the stupidity -- or perhaps the increasingly leftward drift -- of the American electorate.

I find it unsettling that the dems can put their most rabidly leftist candidate up for the top office in the land and win going away. Meanwhile, the GOP has to somehow hammer out a tortured path through a string "swing" states in hopes of pulling off the upset.

205 posted on 12/12/2011 10:41:19 AM PST by ScottinVA (I miss America.)
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To: ScottinVA

string *OF* “swing” states.


206 posted on 12/12/2011 10:43:10 AM PST by ScottinVA (I miss America.)
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To: SumProVita

The idiot is the person who chose to believe a false story on Glenn Beck then proceed to pile on with the ad hominem attacks including calling him an Idiot.

He is not running for office and has made no endorsement. He stated who he would vote for and who he would not. This morning he did not rule out a Romney vote if that was what it came to, but most freepers her regardless of feelings will probably do the same thing.

Beck probably has an audience that is several thousand times the readership of this forum, so rave on it will affect no one but you.

I am not a Mormon, and don’t understand how any Christian can be sucked into Mormonism, but I don’t find any fault with someone telling people to prepare to help others.

The real enemy is Progressivism, either join the fight, or get out of the way.


207 posted on 12/12/2011 11:18:01 AM PST by itsahoot (Throw them all out! Especially the Frugal Socialists who call themselves Republicans.)
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To: itsahoot

You have built a little army of several straw men here. I think you might want to re-read the sequence of posts to understand what I was actually saying.

Have a nice day...


208 posted on 12/12/2011 11:31:57 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: SumProVita
Have a nice day...

All my days are nice. There were no straw men in my post, you know the charge against Beck that generated this whole thread was horsepucky.

209 posted on 12/12/2011 12:28:57 PM PST by itsahoot (Throw them all out! Especially the Frugal Socialists who call themselves Republicans.)
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To: itsahoot

I wasn’t even discussing Beck......


210 posted on 12/12/2011 2:25:03 PM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: SumProVita

The thread was devoted to Beck being an Idiot because he called the Tea Party Racists. Which was a lie, but it invited every kook on FR to join in the dog pile, you were among them.


211 posted on 12/12/2011 2:36:51 PM PST by itsahoot (Throw them all out! Especially the Frugal Socialists who call themselves Republicans.)
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To: panaxanax
Sorry, but he does not represent the majority of Constitutional, Bill of Rights, FReedom-loving Republican-Americans.

Okay, you win; Romney it is.

212 posted on 12/23/2011 9:09:09 AM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began,)
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To: af_vet_1981

“Okay, you win; Romney it is.”

Damned if we do and damned if we don’t, huh? If RINO-Romney wins, we all lose.


213 posted on 12/23/2011 3:28:57 PM PST by panaxanax (0bama >>WORST PRESIDENT EVER.)
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