To: Zakeet
It's crucial to win the Iowa Caucus. That's how President Huckabee got where he is today.
Oh, wait...
106 posted on
12/15/2011 8:37:50 AM PST by
Antoninus
(Take the pledge: I will not vote for Mitt Romney under any circumstances. EVER.)
To: Antoninus
Who is leading in SC polls?Here lies the deep concern...
South Carolina always gets it right. In every presidential primary since 1980, the state has backed the candidate that eventually clinched the Republican nomination. The state is more diverse than New Hampshire, less evangelical than Iowa, and bigger than both of them.
Gingrich is winning in SC but Obama beats him nationally.
To: Antoninus
It's crucial to win the Iowa Caucus. That's how President Huckabee got where he is today.
Oh, wait...
Or George "the Big Mo'" Bush in '80, or Bob Dole and Pat Robertson in '88, for that matter.
I think it has become clear that Iowa's importance is rather inflated. At most, it weeds out lower-tier candidates who tend to drop out when they concentrate their limited resources in Iowa and still lose.
However, if you're going all-in in Iowa, your campaign is probably doomed to begin with. If you're only really competing in Iowa, then you're old news by the time Super Tuesday rolls around.
If Gingrich starts losing serious ground in South Carolina and Florida, then he needs to start worrying.
111 posted on
12/15/2011 8:52:03 AM PST by
The Pack Knight
(Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and the world laughs at you.)
To: Antoninus
All the polls have Obama beating everybody but he ties with Christie!I think I heard Trump is the only won beating Obama according to polls.
How can such a pathetic POS poser Obama do well in ANY poll?
To: Antoninus
And Ronald Reagan lost Iowa in 1980.
125 posted on
12/15/2011 9:13:59 AM PST by
murron
(Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
To: Antoninus
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