Mitt Romney's Ohio Problem

Third Base Politics ^ | 2-9-2012 | Bytor

[ak267]

We’ve all heard the axiom, “as goes Ohio, so goes the nation”. In fact, no Republican has ever won the Presidency without winning Ohio. And for this year’s GOP presidential primary, Ohio is the top prize in what is turning out to be a critical Super Tuesday on March 6th.

In fact, just yesterday analyst Sean Trende of Real Clear Politics identified Ohio as the key state between a Romney runaway and the possibility of a brokered convention.

So the viability of a three-way split probably comes down to Ohio, which has a fair number of evangelicals, though not to the degree that Tennessee, Oklahoma and Georgia do. Santorum has some strengths he can draw on in the Buckeye State, as his blue-collar message could play well even among Republicans there. If he wins, it means that we probably do have a deeply divided GOP, with Gingrich taking the anti-Romney vote in the South, and Santorum taking the anti-Romney vote in the Midwest.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Greetings Credo:

Can not speak for the 13th District; but Rick Santorum is on the Ohio 6th ballot. Would you kindly share a link to a story concerning Santorum delegates, because nobody's delegates appear on the smartvoter.org 6th sample ballot.

The dominant Ohio River Valley talk radio station, WVHU 800AM, the Tom Roten FB page participants and callers seem to lean towards Rick Santorum, then RuPaul before Newt Gingrich. WVHU is a Clear Channel station.

Believe Myth Romney is a serious candidate in the ORV region? Wanna buy a slightly used bridge between Ironton and Russell?

Cheers,
OLA

[sthguard]

Union-busting should be a MUCH higher priority for every conservative than it is currently. Unions masquerade as being “for workers” but in reality they contribute more to big government and to an essentially bureaucratic view of labor— no wonder they donate so much money to Democrats!

[RC one]

Kasich still unpopular

PPP: Kasich Would Lose A Do-Over In Ohio By Twenty

I think YOU are very wrong Chris. Don't get mad at the messenger here just because the message isn't to your liking. Kasich effed up. His priorities may have cost us everything and they gained us NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTHING. NOT A GD THING.

[RC one]

A smart general knows how to pick his battles and his battlefields. An idiot general, not so much. Kasich is of the latter. He should have known better. as I stated in the previous upthread post, his lack of political sense may have cost us everything and by everything I mean the Senate and the white house, and he gained us nothing.

[chris_bdba]

I don’t put much weight on polls conducted by PPP.I listen tot he people I hear around em who are fed up with the democrats.Kasich isn’t on the ballot until 2014 so not sure how you come up with what you have?