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Posted on 01/04/2012 5:17:36 PM PST by floridarunner01
Mitt Romney is blanketing Florida with ads and mailers. Newt Gingrich is planning a Miami-Orlando trip next week. Ron Paul is sending out fliers.
The Republican presidential race for Florida is kicking into high gear.
As the nation's biggest and most-diverse swing state, Florida has more Electoral College votes than Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina combined. Without it, Republicans probably can't win the White House.
Romney's win Tuesday night in Iowa made the Florida stakes even higher. It all but ensures that most of his rivals would not survive a Jan. 31 victory in Florida by Romney, if he lives up to expectations and wins New Hampshire.
"Florida could become Mitt Romney's firewall," said Greg Mueller, president of the conservative CRC Public Relations firm, who worked for Florida Gov. Rick Scott's campaign as well as the presidential campaigns of Pat Buchanan in 1996 and Steve Forbes and 2000.
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Endorsed by the senile fool, McJudas.
Concentrating on Flordia.
Mittens is looking for the senile vote.
According to greenpapers.com FL has 50 delegates with winner takes all.
Well, if that is the case, I’ll vote for Rick in florida’s primary.
I just heard that Willard’s performance last night was even worse than we thought.
He only won 17 of the 99 counties but 13 of those were the VERY TOP performing counties for Obama. That is, the most liberal, too.
We can kiss Iowa goodbye if Willard is the nominee. Obama will smoke him yet in another state we could actually use.
Glad you mentioned this I got a mailer today that is circulated by Restore Our Future
It states - Newtfacts: The real truth about Newt Gingrich
Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee
It may not be authorized but it is sure funded by Mitt Romney, his filthy associates and minions.
There is a YouTube video on the front page of their website with Mitten’s face and the caption: Turned Around Dozens of Companies
So beware of a new lying Mitt Romney website and mailers here in Florida.
Ever since 1980 (in 1976 Fla went for Gerald Ford and SC for Ronald Reagan—what were we thinking?) South Carolina has picked the GOP presidential nominee and THEN Florida followed.
Just so we know.
I’m hoping both Romney and Paul bow out before Virginia, leaving no one on the ballot there for the GOP.
I wonder whatever happened to the $20 million that some Las Vegas casino owner was giving to one of Newt’s super pacs.
Sure could use that to run non-stop ads against Willard in Florida.
His strategy from day one (what I think anyway) is for finish top 2 in Iowa, win New Hampshire by a large margin, and then win Florida. That right there will give him a pretty heavy delegate lead and knock a number of his rivals out of the race.
But this is why the Romney camp doesnt consider Santorum much of a threat because Huckabee won Iowa in 2008 and struggled to win anything else (although Huck had some strong showings). Santorum has no organization in Florida. A poll last week showed him at 1%. Now that will no doubt be higher now. But Florida is not Iowa or South Carolina, or New Hampshire. It is a massive state that costs a lot of money to campaign in. Romney, Perry, and Gingrich have the money and organization to compete in Florida. Santorum needs an act of god to win this state.
For Santorum, he needs to win South Carolina, and needs someone to upset Romney in NH and/or FL. That might give him enough to survive into February and get to Super Tuesday. But if Romney wins NH, SC, and then Florida. I think it’s over.
I refuse to vote for mittens except in the general. I just don’t know who it will be in the primary. This race is so fluid. 1 thing certain ABO for me!
Decision is already made - and it isn’t Mittens.
Most of us here are not senile. Florida stopped being a retiree state long ago, and actually has huge numbers of younger people and families from the NE and other parts of the country, as well as many 2nd and 3rd generation Cuban- and Venezuelan-American families.
The sad thing, from what I have seen on the ground, is that most of the people identified with the Tea Party (generally in their 50s and early 60s) will be voting for Ron Paul, joining with the young libertarian dopers on the right and the OWS crowd on the left.
Strange times.
IIRC, on another FR thread, FL was penalized for "jumping the gun" and moving their primary date to Jan29th. Florida HAD 99 delegates(IIRC) and was cut down to 50, with "winner-take-all".
Just watched Mitt on Hannity and I have to say he has a good campaign manager. He’s staying above the fray, acting like the nominee, and only talking about Obama. Being very specific about what Obama did wrong economically.
I wish to hell a decent candidate would adopt those strategies (sigh)
Here's hoping Floridians will take a good look at ALL the candidate's records, choose their favorite candidate and get out and support that candidate!
I have, and like Governor Perry's record the best.
He’s also started the anti-newt ads
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