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Newt Crashes, Romney Soars On InTrade
Business Insider ^ | December 15th | Zeke Miller

Posted on 12/17/2011 4:00:51 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing

Newt Gingrich's fortunes on the prediction betting website InTrade have collapsed in the past three days, amid an unrelenting assault from all sides in the Republican field.

After pushing close to 40 percent on the site, he's down to a 16.5 percent chance of winning the nomination. Mitt Romney, who fell as low as 42 percent on the site last week, is back up to 64 percent.

The radical swing is a reflection of the growing unease on all sides about Gingrich's viability as the nominee - and recent polling showing that Gingrich's rise to the top in Iowa was just a blip.

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KEYWORDS: gamblers; garbage; gingrich; insidertrading; intrade; libertarians; nonromney; romney; ronpaulfans
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Normally I'd be worried that the republican establishment has yet again taken out one of our guys,(with the help of the liberal media of course) but realistically, Newt's a progressive anyways. The republican establishment is only taking out one of their own. I can't say I'll cry a river.

Let's go Santorum! Let's go Bachmann!

Heck, why not. Even Perry.

Let's drive a real conservative to the nomination!!!!!!

1 posted on 12/17/2011 4:00:57 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

What part of “I will never vote for Romney” do these people not understand?


2 posted on 12/17/2011 4:06:41 PM PST by Grunthor (Unrepentant breeder.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

We DON’T want another Dole another McCain! #nonromney #antiromney


3 posted on 12/17/2011 4:08:46 PM PST by omega4179 (We can't wait!............. for the end of an error.....1-20-13)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Of course the Democrats want Romney to succeed because they know he is beatable. Why else would they be supporting him against a powerful Newt?

Newt has my vote!

4 posted on 12/17/2011 4:09:33 PM PST by mckenzie7 (Democrats = Trough Sloppers!)
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the powerful newt? lol..ya ok


5 posted on 12/17/2011 4:11:01 PM PST by skaterboy (Hate=Love....Love=Hate)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Bachmann liked Newt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8zz5myJ_hs


6 posted on 12/17/2011 4:11:54 PM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Look at their accomplishments. Newt allied himself with Ronald Reagan to build the Reagan Coalition, the Religious Right, and the Republican majority (together the Reagan Revolution) which directly led the downfall of the Soviet Union, the Contract with America, government reforms, less government, tax cuts, a balanced budget, and the great, long-standing Reagan economy.

Romney, on the other hand, vehemently denied Ronald Reagan and aligned himself with Ted Kennedy and the left. Romney accomplished installing liberal big government programs, defended and promoted Roe v Wade and legalized abortion as “settled law,” advocated and implemented RomneyCare with its liberty killing government mandates against formerly free citizens and its taxpayer funded or subsidized and mandated abortion procedures. He ran and governed to the left of Ted Kennedy on the “gay agenda” resulting in gay marriage in Massachusetts. He appointed liberal judges and liberal appointees throughout his government. Under his “leadership” conservatism and the Republican party was all but destroyed in Massachusetts.

Romney is one evil liberal progressive. No way in hell will MittBots be allowed to support this abortionist, big government, socialist scumbag on FR!

Guess my message isn’t clear enough. I have to keep repeating it and zotting would be MittBots.

79 posted on Sat Dec 03 2011 19:59:37 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by Jim Robinson


7 posted on 12/17/2011 4:13:16 PM PST by narses
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

not sure anyone commenting on this thread even knows what Intrade is and whose opinions it normally reflects.


8 posted on 12/17/2011 4:14:02 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Moderator of Florida Tea Party Convention Presidential Debate)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Bob Dull II.


9 posted on 12/17/2011 4:15:23 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (FOREIGN AID: A transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Since it is technically illegal for Americans to bet on InTrade, the majority of the wagers are from Europeans that don't necessarily know what the political climate is here in the U.S.
10 posted on 12/17/2011 4:15:36 PM PST by 2111USMC (Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Yes, there are still forty seconds left until the nomination, so let’s defeat Newt and throw up a Hail Mary pass that some four-percenter will pull-out a miracle, last-second, come-from-nowhere, unprecedented upset victory for the ages - the greatest upset ever, EVER. All we have to do is get all the people who haven’t seen that Bachmann should be the choice and not Perry, that Santorum should be the choice and not Bachmann, that Perry should be the choice and not Bachmann, and that Perry should be the choice and not Santorum to suddenly all drop the candidate they are praying will be the one who pulls off the miracle victory and unite behind one of them. So which of you Bachmann supporters is ready to dump her right now and get behind Perry? Now is the time!!!

Then let’s all bitch that Romney won the nod.

Intrade had Giuliani winning and Palin about a 1000:1 shot for Veep. Stop pretending a gambling site is the authority on the GOP nonination.

Say, what are Perry, Bachmann, and Santorum at on Intrade, Halfman?

Stick with Newt. Everyone has had the chance to make their case, Newt has made it. He is the alternative to Mitt, period. There is no time left for fantasies about someone else winning the nomination.


11 posted on 12/17/2011 4:16:30 PM PST by TitansAFC (I will never, EVER, under any circumstance, EVER support Ron Paul over ANYBODY.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

I wouldn’t count Newt out yet.


12 posted on 12/17/2011 4:17:24 PM PST by RockinRight (If you're waiting to drink until you find pure water, you're going to die of dehydration.)
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To: TitansAFC

Yep, it’s newt or Romney, the other have all proven themselves over land over and over and over again to be not up to the task

I’m with Newt!


13 posted on 12/17/2011 4:19:23 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Newt Gingrich 2012!)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Are you serious? Your dumb*ss attitude will give us Mitt - you bought their crap, hook line and sinker.


14 posted on 12/17/2011 4:31:44 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Newt has my vote also.


15 posted on 12/17/2011 4:34:00 PM PST by Logical me
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To: Grunthor
What part of “I will never vote for Romney” do these people not understand?

F.R. members are maybe 98% against Milt but F.R. members are a miniscule percentage of the voting population.

16 posted on 12/17/2011 4:35:43 PM PST by Graybeard58 (No Obama, No Romney, No Paul, No Huntsman. We can do better than that!)
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To: skaterboy

You’ll get weak romney and screw America for good and then you won’t be laughing - he and his crew, commies and all will be laughing at the dumb voters.


17 posted on 12/17/2011 4:36:30 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Could you please take a minute and explain Intrade, because I really don’t know what it is, and I see it cited a lot of times... thank you.


18 posted on 12/17/2011 4:37:24 PM PST by true believer forever (First, they came for the rich.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

What fools these mortals be!


19 posted on 12/17/2011 4:39:55 PM PST by Paperdoll (on the cutting edge)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

What fools these mortals be!


20 posted on 12/17/2011 4:40:18 PM PST by Paperdoll (on the cutting edge)
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