Insider Advantage Poll - Florida (Newt 34, Mitt 25)

realclearpolitics.com ^ | 1/22/12 | staff

[TexasFreeper2009]

Gingrich 34.4 Romney 25.6

[willk]

“If Newt takes Florida with that percentage then it’s OVER.

Bye Bye Mitt....”

-and hello 4 more years of obamanation.

[jpsb]

Romney needs to be stopped because he is Mass liberal, but I think he would hold the south against Obama in a general. He would be weaker in the northern more liberal states. But his biggest problem is he does not have what it takes to win. No vision, no articulation, no intensity. Romney should drop out if he gets wacked badly in Fla.

Lol, heads are exploding in D.C. at this very minute.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

This looks strange. Romney gets 0.0% of the 18-29 vote. In that age group Newt gets 31.6%, with undecided in 2nd place with 25.6%.

[TitansAFC]

Ping!

[hoosiermama]

Have been flipping channels.

Heard Mitt say that Newt wasn't a business man he was K street lobbyist. Comment is getting picked up on MSM.

Newt needs to emphasize what his small business does. How much of his income is earned from the patriotic historical documentaries, books etc.

[greeneyes]

[If this poll holds, then Romney is finished in the south. And maybe finished in the entire country too.]

He needs to be finished. He is the least electable candidate, and has been for a long time. The GOP E may have lost their minds or maybe getting senile or else:

GOP E must think that Obama is unbeatable, else they are too cowardly to face the billion dollare Obama machine, or Romney bought them off by promising to give the down ballot candidates lots of money.

This war is going to continue until the base gets a better candidate that they find acceptable. Watch out GOP E will pull all sorts of dirty tricks to shaft the conservatives.

[JediJones]

Interestingly, Newt has captured the "other race" demo by a whopping 75%. I wonder which voters fall into the "other" category. Could their strong support have something to do with the speech Newt's giving this week about sending the U.S. back into outer space?

[Parley Baer]

“-and hello 4 more years of obamanation.”

Coming from the people with tunnel vision and cannot see what is happening. GO NEWT GO!

[HerrBlucher]

Nope, hello 8 years of Gingrich.

[Gator113]

Already!!!!!!!!

GO NEWT GO......

[Gator113]

Already!!!!!!!!

GO NEWT GO......

[jpsb]

"GOP E must think that Obama is unbeatable"

I don't know where that idea is coming from Zero is the most beatable president since Jimmy. Just about anyone could beat Zero, hell I could beat Zero, no sweat.

[bray]

Coulter is on her second box of wine tonight.

Pray for America

[JediJones]

Romney is going full negative on Newt and has now taken up the job his SuperPACs were doing before. This is certainly the sign of a desperate candidate. I don’t know if it will stick. My feeling is him rattling off a long series of accusations will make him look worse than Newt, and none of them will really stick.

Newt will probably have to explain some of these, like why he resigned from the House right after winning reelection. From what I can tell, Newt resigned because they got bad election results in 1998 and they would have voted him out as Speaker because of it. He apparently didn’t want to remain as a regular House member, but I think that’s only natural for anyone. The resignation came almost 2 years after the ethics charges were dismissed/settled, so it has nothing to do with them, but Mitt seems to be trying to make it sound like the ethics charges resulted directly in Newt’s resignation.

This new article starts out with nasty, nasty stuff from Mitt and Politico doesn’t even try to sugar coat it...

Politico: Mitt Romney: Newt Gingrich is a ‘failed leader,’ ‘disgrace’

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71802.html

Also, Romney was on Huckabee Sunday night, who IMO gave him very leading questions geared up to give him mile-wide openings to bash Newt, questions that it sounded like the Romney campaign provided to him. Romney opened up attacks on Newt the kind of which he has never done personally before, adopting a lot of the messages that only his SuperPAC had used before. Ethics violations, $300,000 settlement, 35 years as a Washington insider, lobbying for 15 years, working for health care companies, lobbying for Medicare Part D, taking $1.6 million from Freddie Mac for being a historian, sitting on the couch with Pelosi for climate change legislation, his House members turning on him, being “kicked out” of the House, erratic leadership, etc. Romney got all of that out in 2 minutes or less.

[jpsb]

"Coulter is on her second box of wine tonight.

me too ;)

[bray]

But, have you smoked a carton of Pall Malls too?

[The Cajun]

One thing good that I think has happened, the Romney/MSM *Brand* has effectively and deservedly been nullified by Newt in the last debate.

Don't think they're fixing to shine again anytime soon.

They have greatly underestimated true conservatives and the tea party.

[TFMcGuire]

Colorado?

Snort!

Don’t bet on it!

[TFMcGuire]

“They have greatly underestimated true conservatives and the tea party.
“

They have not only underestimated. They have misunderestimated!

[onyx]

Come ON Florida!

GO NEWT!!!!

GO TEA Party!!!