So, the candidate with 43,920 votes gets out of the way, for the candidate with 1,696 votes?
Using your logic, it should be Thompson getting out of the way of 723 vote Duncan Hunter.
Posted on 01/08/2008 6:15:03 PM PST by NormsRevenge
BEDFORD, N.H. - Mitt Romney pledged to "fight across this nation" for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday after a second place finish in New Hampshire, the same spot where he finished in last week's Iowa caucuses. He likened it to another silver medal in his quest and praised GOP victor John McCain for a "first class race."
"I'd rather have a gold" medal, the former Massachusetts governor told supporters. He vowed to stay in the race and set his sights on the primary in Michigan in one week. He was raised in Michigan and his father George Romney was president there.
"There have been three races so far. I've gotten two silvers and one gold. Thank you Wyoming," said the one-time Olympics organizer.
"I will fight across this nation. On to Michigan and South Carolina and Florida and Nevada," he said.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
BEDFORD, N.H. (AP) — Mitt Romney pledged a long fight for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, regardless of finishing second to John McCain in the New Hampshire primary after posting another second-place finish to Mike Huckabee in the Iowa caucuses.
In between was a weekend win for Romney in the Wyoming caucuses, which the former Massachusetts governor said was testimony to his 50-state strategy.
"I'm going to stay in this race to win," Romney told reporters after beginning his day at a polling station in Manchester. "I don't think the Republican Party wants to have only one person in this contest until the very end. I expect to be one of the two that's in it to the very end."
During the final 24 hours of the New Hampshire campaign, Romney and his aides largely shed their recent inhibitions, openly predicting a come-from-behind-victory against McCain. They claimed independents were breaking their way based on Romney's performance in a pair of weekend debates.
Nonetheless, Romney chided McCain and Huckabee for cherry-picking contests, with Huckabee having focused on Iowa while McCain focused on New Hampshire. Romney spent more than $7 million on advertising in each state, and held as many, if not more, events in both places than any of his GOP rivals.
Romney, 60, is a former venture capitalist who made hundreds of millions before taking over the scandal-ridden 2002 Winter Olympic Games and returning them to profitability. He failed in his first bid for elective office, a 1994 effort to oust Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. But in 2002 he rode his wave of Olympic glory to a four-year term as the Bay State's governor.
A Mormon, Romney aggressively courted Christian conservatives — some of whom consider Mormons members of a cult — and in doing so brought the issue to the fore in the 2008 campaign.
Romney traveled to the George Bush Presidential Library in Texas last month to deliver a speech spelling out his views on faith in American politics.
Interviews Tuesday with voters exiting their polling places showed that about a fifth of New Hampshire GOP voters said they were born again or evangelical voters, compared to the six in 10 who said so in last week's Iowa Republican caucuses and boosted Huckabee to victory there.
Most New Hampshire Republicans said the top quality they were seeking in a candidate was someone who shared their values and is authentic. Romney was the big leader among those naming values, McCain among those seeking a candidate who says what he believes. About a quarter named experience, an area where McCain had a slight edge.
McCain was viewed as the strongest leader and most qualified to be commander-in-chief.
Romney, who aired ads critical of Huckabee and McCain in Iowa and New Hampshire, was seen more than the others as having waged a negative campaign, the exit survey found.
New Hampshire was a pivotal state for Romney, who predicated his campaign on starting fast with wins here and in Iowa and using that momentum to steamroll his opponents in later contests in Michigan — his birth state — and South Carolina, Florida and the two dozen states voting on Feb. 5.
Romney warned Republicans that with Barack Obama surging against veteran senators on the Democratic side, Republicans would make a mistake to nominate another Senate veteran in McCain.
"I don't have years and years of favors I have to repay, lobbyists who've raised all sorts of money for me, deals I've worked out in the cloak room," he told New Hampshire voters. "I come in from the outside."
That's the way Michael Dukakis rationalized his losses, in terms of losing medals.
Joe Isuzu Romney needs to give it up.
Why give it up when you are leading?....duh?
Willard is a delusional loser.
In your dreams.
Now we just have to get Fred to win SC :)
Leading what, Buddy K ? His failure to win NH was a first class-fiasco. Must be all those Massachusetts refugees who know how horrible a liberal RINO Governor he was. ;-)
Better keep your day time job....political wranglings are not your forte.
It’s like the Patriots consistently losing to Triple A college teams, and saying they are proud they kept it kind of, sort of, close.
I guess.
Mitt better have near 200 million dollars at this rate.
I bet he spends it too.
And loses.
Go Mitt Go! doesn’t he keep his percentage of delegates from NH?
Romney is better than Preacher Huck or Old-Man-Amnesty. I’d prefer Fred, but it doesn’t look like he’s going anywhere.
How'd Fred do?
Sure, his strategy was to get stunning wins in Iowa and New Hampshire, grab the Big Mo, and defeat Rudy's "the liberal states will save me" gambit, but Rooty's polled very poorly in Iowa, and his NH numbers are in the Ron Paul range, so he's not run any kind of respectable third or fourth (especially in NH, it's practically a 'neighboring state' to NY!). So, Rooty did poorly, if his 'let Florida propel me to Super Tuesday' concept collapses, and Huck, McPain, and even Thompson divide up the February 5th states, but are dead broke, Romney can spend enough money to mop this thing up. He's won Wyoming, nobody's seriously contesting him in Michigan, and he might even win some Mountain time zone states and perhaps a couple others as well.
It all depends on how much his non-military-serving sons can persuade him not to spend their inheritance on this, as to whether or not he can limp into the convention as the guy with the most delegates, though not enough for a first ballot victory.
How many states are distributing their delegates proportionally? If there are many of them, Romney will surely have the most delegates come Convention.
What’s that you say, Buddy K ?
Yes, he does.
Far better when the faux Conservative RINOs get out of the damn way and let the honest Conservative grown up be our nominee.
Here’s CNN’s delegate counter. It’s a bit confusing, however.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/scorecard/#val=R
So, the candidate with 43,920 votes gets out of the way, for the candidate with 1,696 votes?
Using your logic, it should be Thompson getting out of the way of 723 vote Duncan Hunter.
Thanks. It’s better than ‘The Green Papers’.
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