Posted on 01/28/2008 4:43:23 PM PST by Checkers
A week ago, Rasmussen Reports noted that if John McCain wins Florida, he may be close to unstoppable in the race for the Republican nomination. Nothing has happened in the past week to alter that assessment, but McCain’s prospects in Florida remain far from certain. The Arizona Senator finds himself in a Sunshine State toss-up with former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. (Today's Daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows Romney at 28% nationally and McCain at 26%)
Given the importance of Florida, the Rasmussen Reports weekly analysis of the GOP race will be updated on Wednesday this week.
While no one knows who will win Florida at this moment, it is worth noting how much the GOP race has changed since South Carolina. For most of the year, the Republican nomination field was crowded with five candidates in double digits and no one able to gain a lasting advantage. It is now clearly a two-man race.
In fact, it is now distinctly possible that the GOP nomination could be wrapped up before the Democrats select their candidate. While South Carolina clarified things for Republicans, it had the opposite impact on the Democratic race.
As the two-man finals play out, Romney will present himself as the champion of conservatives in general and economic conservatives in particular. McCain will present himself as a “foot soldier” in the Reagan Revolution and a national security conservative. However, many conservatives will paint the Arizona Senator as closer to Hillary Clinton than Ronald Reagan.
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Savage supports Romney!
“I’ll just wait until tomorrow night to see where it goes from here.”
This poll isn’t for just Florida.
It’s a National poll.
Romney is wearing his opponents down, one at a time. Giuliani will be gone after tomorrow.
Please quit abusing the Breaking News Sidebar. Every poll that come out isn’t breaking news. Especially if they come out every day.
~”Savage supports Romney!”~
Oh no! We’re doomed!
(Sorry, not a big Savage fan. Good to hear, though.)
“Please quit abusing the Breaking News Sidebar. Every poll that come out isn’t breaking news. Especially if they come out every day.”
This is the first time I’ve posted a poll as breaking news. I did not know that was what passed for abuse. I will not do it again.
Btw, I’d like to see the same kind of rapid resonse from the mods we’ve seen on this thread on some of the nasty crap that gets posted by trolls from time to time.
Just a thought.
Regards,
—Checkers
BTW, I just cannot imagine the anachronistic, enfeebled McCain taking on either of the two possible Dem opponents. They’ll eat him up a la’ Dole style. Very difficult to make ANY case for McCain and even less for the others IMO.
What was the image?
Heh... Tripod blocked it. It was the album art for “Movin’ On Up.”
Ah, well...
At this point I am supporting Mitt, I’ll never cast a vote for the other RINO’s in this race. Should he lose the nomination, I’m out.
Not that I am emotionally invested in Romney, I just really dislike that rest that strongly.
Agree. See my # 13
Hehehehe. I know what you mean. Savage must be taking his medicines this week.
Go Mitt.
Romney is not wearing his opponents down, he is beating them with money. This prooves that a nomination can be bought.
Florida callers to Rush’s show said they were getting calls from the McCain campaign telling them McCain is the ONLY one that can beat Hillery! This must be the only reason McCain is even in the running.
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