Posted on 03/14/2012 1:01:28 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP
GOP being Punk’d?
We know that Democrats are crossing over in open primaries, such as Mississippi and Alabama, in order to vote for Rick Santorum, a big union candidate, their votes intended to throw the Republican National Convention into a contested balloting process.
This tactic was written up at the Daily Kos. Big union money has even invested for the Santorum campaign.
Pardon me for not having all the pertinent facts and I confess I don’t even have time to search for them all, today, to say nothing of presenting and formatting them, here. Can you help? Place further information into comments?
Santorum in Jackson, Mississippi, photo: Rogelio V. Solis, AP If memory serves me correctly, CNN’s John King last evening pointed out there according to their exit polling, about six to eight percent of Alabama voters called themselves Democrats. However, I did not find breakdown by party at the exit poll pages in cnn.com. That seems odd in itself, eh?
And if that many Democrats were willing to tell exit pollsters what they did, how many more just walked by them, refusing to be polled? If you were a prankster-voting in such a case, would you want to be examined by a pollster? Maybe some would. Maybe more would not.
CNN’s exit polls (for Mississippi and for Alabama) and the actual vote counts may be found at their site (and perhaps others have published exit polls, please tell me if you find any). Santorum’s final edge over Gingrich was approximately two percent in Mississippi and six percent in Alabama. Theoretically, both of these tallies could be within the margin of pranking.
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I’m for Rick. The electability concern is irrelevant, if we don’t get a Pres. with a clue, USA is toast economically and the ways of life.
Don’t kid yourself. These union Dims do whatever the union bosses tell them to, and in the general it is NOT going to involve voting GOP.
0%of Newt’s voters will ever be independents or Democrats.
He will not be the nominee for all the reasons I’ve posted so often, mostly that the GOP will not nominate someone whose elective experience is in the House.
The open primary is something I’ll never understand.
Our weakest candidate is Romney and even Democrats know that. They have their entire campaign in place for Romney and were looking forward to it.
I don’t think Newt is done. The media tells the folks he is.
He has plans for the convention, don’t count him out yet.
So was Reagan. I wouldn't mind a repeat.
Did you watch any MSM coverage last night? The “analysts” and Democrat strategists were glowing. They loved Rick winning. Are they our friends? What does that tell you?
The funny thing is that some newt supporters in this thread actually think the goal of the lefties is to make sure GINGRICH isn’t our nominee, and THAT is why they might cross over and vote for Santorum in Michigan.
Because of course, if Santorum didn’t have those votes, Gingrich would certainly have won Michigan.
There is a reason the lefties aren’t crossing over to help Gingrich win. There aren’t enough democrats willing to cross over to put Gingrich anywhere NEAR winning in any of the states other than the two he managed to win.
Th Lefties want to stop Romney. The question is why do Newt supporters oppose the Lefties attempts to stop Romney, when Gingrich wants to stop Romney as well?
But that is not the case, where I am concerned. And if Santorum does win the nomination, you will learn that for yourself the hard way.
Democrats crossed over in Michigan to vote Santorum because they want Obama to smoke him in the fall.
Newt will form a grassroots group to take on the GOPE were they live, no matter what. So Newt is far from being out of the future. That, you can take to the bank.
Now, the true believers for Rick have taken this admiration
even further. You can't reason with them. They are now like Obamabots. I hope Newt and Palin team up to stop this crazy stuff and to save our country from the radicals. My number one goal. There is no others who can do the job or we have the same corruption.
You got a link for that? It's not in the blog you posted here. And in the exits for Arizona and Michigan, while Santorum did the best with democrats, all the candidates got votes from democrats, and the total democrat vote matched the 2008 race.
BTW, and I'm sure you actually know this, because you aren't as clueless as you might sound trying to sell this last-gasp effort to "explain" why voters aren't flocking to Newt, but people actually DO switch parties all the time, because a lot of people really aren't all that into "party", they just like to vote, and they move back and forth depending on where the action is.
In some circles, we call this "reaching out to disaffected democrats", and "expanding the party base". And sure, some people take time out of their busy schedule to show up and vote for someone they hate in the hopes they might win a nomination and be easier to beat.
But in an election where we can barely get REPUBLICANS to take the time to vote to remove Obama, it is absurd to think that a significant number of democrats are more motivated to make sure a weak republican gets our nomination than there are republicans motivated to give a few hundred more votes to Newt.
That’s very true. But now, it looks like we will all have to sit back and watch, to see what happens.
Santorum stands zero chance of being President. He is a nonentity. He is too extreme socially and too ignorant economically to ever be elected.
LOL! Give me a break. The GOP nominee, whomever he happens to be, will be the next President of the United States.
[ The sole purpose of the Republican Party is to serve as an ineffective alternative to the Democrat Party. ]
NAILED IT!
I am paying attention to the outcome of the election so far. I think you are the one that is not paying attention.
Santorum and Romney are the only ones winning. Newt has won two states, one of them his home state, and the other, a state that borders his home state.
The illusion of choice.
Romney will be the easiest to beat by far
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