Most of these primary delegates that Romney is piling up - from blue states. Meaningless. An exercise in futility.
You sound like a pessimist. Every state you mention, you cede it to Obama. It’s as if you think that Obama will win all 57 states.
You realize the flip side of this is that Santorum and Gingrich can only win states the GOP will win anyway right? And states like Ohio and Wisconsin (and hopefully Michigan) will be battleground states in November anyway.
The truth is the more liberal the candidate the better they do in urban areas, the more conservative, the better they do in rural areas. There is no shock here, everyone knows this. Unfortunately, more people live in urban areas.
What is the point of going on with this? Romney sucks. Pretty much no one here likes him. Not many liked McCain or Dole either. We are going to have a dud as a nominee. The math is the math. Conservatives did not put up a compelling candidate this cycle and the result is the establishment hug-the-center RINO is going to be the nominee. I am for Gingrich (was for Perry first till he proved to me he didn’t have the communication skills for the job), but at this point I know he isn’t going to win. The problem is Santorum is not seen as a credible alternative by major sections of GOP primary voters that would have liked to have a decent non-Romney to vote for.
So what now? Attack Willard all the way to the election or suck it up and vote for the RINO and hope it is enough to at least knock Hussein out of the White House. I mean, that is where we are at now. Pointing out what a flawed candidate Romney is here on FR didn’t help us stop him from coasting to the nomination, and it sure isn’t going to help us defeat Obummer. In the end pretty much all conservative and non-Romney politicians, including Newt and Santorum, are going to endorse and campaign for Mitt anyway - and so will Perry, Palin, etc. So just how long are we going to go on with the temper tantrum?
If Romney is the nominee, I expect he will pile up electoral votes in states that McCain carried and he might also take some that Obama won in ‘08 when America really knew nothing about him. You can argue that his “blue” state delegates won’t matter in the general but he ought to get quite a few electoral votes in “red” states just by virtue of the R after his name.
Ask yourself this. If Obama couldn’t defeat McCain in certain south and midwest states last time, what has possibly made Obama more electable this time?
Some follow up questions: (1) Will Gingrich or Santorum carry those blue states? Related to that, what do polls on those states say about Obama v. Gingrich? Or Obama v. Santorum? (2) Which red states would flip to Obama because Romney is the Republican nominee?
If Romney is winning only in heavy Democrat areas then why not just switch parties. Would save us a lot of trouble and heart ache.
Your title is apples and oranges. Turn it around and imagine the Dims are holding primaries. Someone would win those primaries in Deep Red states, but they’re not going to win in the general election.
For the life of me I don’t know how a President, residing over such a crummy economy his ENTIRE term, could be reelected. Americans have always voted their pocketbook and this election will be no different. Yes there is still a war going on but a complicit MSM won’t run daily reminders on how badly it’s going under Obama’s leadership. So our Dear Leader is stuck with A) running on the economy and B) demonizing his opponent. Not a very solid platform.
This is the argument that was made against Obama in 2008 - he racked up delegates in Southern states (with huge black populations) that the Democrats had no chance of winning.
Republican Candidates could improve their Primary vote count by campaigning with the following idea:
Due to the FHA, Fannie and Freddie Bankruptcies of September, 2008, American home owners lost 30 % of the value of their homes. That is a 30 % cut in just one month. Home values are still down 30 %.
Thus, let us cut the total compensation to all elected Federal politicians, and their staffs by 30 %, and an additional 10 % cut to elected Federal politicians each year until Federal Spending is LESS THAN the average of the previous 2 years of Federal income.
BTW, since slightly less than half of the US House, and 2/3 of the US Senate are Millionaires, it will be a great opportunity for Congress to lead by example that EVERYONE should give up their “fair” share of the American Dream.
What better way can there be to demonstrate that Federal politicians are on the same page as the voters?