Posted on 01/31/2012 10:01:12 AM PST by tomkat
Have at it y'all !
Hey Florida -- let's show the Nation and all the RINO slugs some TeaPower today !
This one oughta be good for a couple thousand !
( oy, my poor ping page ! )
All most four hours into this thread, with everyone's nerves on pins & needles, but you've all been playing so nice ! !
Extra cookies !
Not only did the MSM say the polls were closed, they also declared Algore the Florida winner at 7:01 PM, when the polling places were still open for almost another hour in the panhandle.
Their excuse:
They all got their voting numbers from the same source.
But none of them realized that the polling places were still open in the Central time zone?
Sureeeee (/s)
Two more hours and this is so stressful - can you imagine how Newt is feeling?????
Hope the low turnout is not due to the voters being mailed absentee ballots by Romney’s campaign.
That will just be horrible - will absentee ballots figure into the results tonight???
Holy Toledo Batman.
That’s ALL ? only 15 people ??? surely there are more than 15 R’s in that area.
Thanks for the update ~
The fact that the Romney people still think he can beat Obama illustrates their ignorance. Romney can not defeat Obama because they’re so alike (motivations aside). When given the choice between a “real deal” leftist like Obama, and an “I’m in it to win elections!” leftist like Romney the “real deal” leftist usually wins (I give you Ford’s 1976 run, GHWB’s 1992 run when he ran away from Reagan, Dole’s 1996 run, McCain’s 2008 run etc.....). “Me tooism” is a losing strategy. In addition, Romney will not have the media to carry his water if he is nominated. My prediction is that if Romney becomes the nominee media outlets like CNN will be all Bain all the time.
Shouldn’t the numbers be held until 8, considering the panhandle?
“Two more hours and this is so stressful”
Out of hundreds and hundreds of “NEWT” tweets I have seen in the last two hours, exactly FOUR have been pro-Gingrich.
This had better be a lesson TO us ALL for the fall.
Adding my prayers.
Panama City (metro area population: 160,000)
Fort Walton Beach-Crestview-Destin (metro area population: 200,000+)
Pensacola (metro area population: 450,000)
These are not huge cities like those in central and south S. Florida, but if the statewide vote is close, there are enough people here to change the outcome - especially in this primary, since the Panhandle is solidly conservative.
“District 23 here in Stuart looked like a ghost town this afternoon. Hopefully, the LACK of turnout here is an exception.” “
District 26 in Palm City, Fla - next to Stuart - steady flow all day.
2 votes cast for Newt .....
As MSNBC said this morning, the Panhandle folks is just CRACKERS, what they think won’t matter.
Could be that the pro-Newts are busy voting, driving, working and making phone calls or are older and don’t tweet.
(p.s. I don’t tweet)
You are exactly right. I am trying to remember that it is all in God’s hands, that His perfect will be done. I am just praying that He has mercy on us and gives us Newt and not Mitt or Obama! :)
Followed by the local canvassing board’s abrupt cancellation of a hand recount.
Without the "melee" Algroe would have taken Florida and the Oval Office.
On the local news at polling locations in Jupiter, Stuart, & the Treasure Coast, the story is low turnout w/ expectations in the 45-50%. That would be off from the 60% levels in 2010.
Extra cookies??? I think I’ll go buy some Fig Newtons and hopefully cheer “Go Newt” with each one that I eat!
Seriously, you are spot on with the pins and needles part, I can hardly stand it!
Well, I went out and voted this afternoon at 3:00, after hearing that turnout in our area was very light.
No kidding!
When I walked in there was just me and the poll workers. I asked them how the turnout had been so far, and they said “terrible”. I was only the 32nd person to cast a vote today in my precint. At 3:00 p.m.
That’s pathetic. But this is Palm Beach County, after all.
Rubio does not have the experience to be seriously considered as a VP pick. Barely two years as a senator, where your major job is to vote on bills, does not qualify someone to be president.
So is the light turnout good news for Newt? Or good news for Mitt?
“(p.s. I don’t tweet)”
15% of Americans DO Tweet, and around 60% of those are under 30.
Of those that do tweet, about 60% regularly voted in US elections.
97% of today’s media uses Twitter.
they set the narrative, for all of those who do not.
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