Posted on 01/16/2012 8:15:21 AM PST by Bigtigermike
The latest Insider Advantage / Newsmax poll of likely South Carolina voters, taken on Sunday, shows Mitt Romney opening up a commanding 11-point lead… and that was before Jon Huntsman dropped out of the race and endorsed Romney. Hell, Huntsman’s still a point ahead of Rick Perry in this poll.
Mitt Romney - 32
Newt Gingrich - 21
Ron Paul - 14
Rick Santorum – 13
Jon Huntsman – 6
Rick Perry – 5
Strangely, according to the poll breakdown, Newt Gingrich scored exactly zero among the youngest cohort of voters, ages 18-29. Ron Paul and Rick Santorum were tied among that group, with 27 percent each.
This poll has a fairly small sample of 720 respondents, but they’re “likely voters,” generally the most reliable group. If the results are accurate, it looks as if that “tightening race” in South Carolina has loosened back up, and undecided voters are starting to break for Romney. If Huntsman’s endorsement sends some of his supporters Romney’s way, and he holds the enormous 22-point lead Rasmussen found for him in Florida last week, Romney could end up taking both states in a walk.
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“I can’t believe that many actual S.C. likely voters will vote for LRon.”
Why not? Ron Paul has the ground game, the funds, and the supporters to do well.
“And so it goes, on and on, forever taking our eyes off the real prize. Sigh.”
You got that right. The political Alamo for traditional conservatives is coming, and yet nothing is done to prevent it. And mitt “Santa Anna” romney just watches and laughs.
“Ron Paul, Rick Santorum , Jon Huntsman, and Rick Perry need to get the hell out of the way. Especially Ron Paul and Santorum.”
Huntsman is out, I doubt Rick Perry will be in a week from now. Rick Santorum might make it to Super Tuesday.
That leaves Ron Paul. And absent his health forcing him to do so, there isn’t a chance in hades that he drops out of the race. He stayed in during 2008 well after John McCain had the majority of delegates sewn up. And he did that with far fewer supporters or resources. Ron Paul is going to stay in the race all the way to the convention. Because it serves the purpose of the Paul faction that he do so.
Whom will FRee Republic support between Romney and Paul?
Notary,
There’s a lot one may discuss is your post (e.g -”Romney supporters...my wife’s family is chock full of them. They like a candidate who is “conservative” in personality and image, not necessarily so much in ideology”-—)
They vote for someone who has a conservative personality??? Well, that explains a lot about the mess we’re in, doesn’t it?” LOL
Look, I never “zotted” anyone, nor participated in one. I hadn’t uttered 1 bad word about any candidate, though Lord knows I’ve been tempted.
But. the relevent question to you:
1. Is Mr. Obama/Dem Party avowed socialist(s)
2. Is the GOP Establishment (including Romney) a plutocracy- they unconstitutionally help the rich at the expense of the rest of the country.
That’s my concern. The unreceptive attitude to alternate arguments you inveigh against, does not apply to me, my friend.
“Vote for the one not-Romney who can WIN. That is NOT Santorum and it’s NOT Perry. It’s GINGRICH.”
Actually it’s PAUL. But it doesn’t much matter: the other candidates will drop out of the race in due time. It’s a shame for traditional conservatives; they’ll be the pretty girl without a date on prom night.
You mean the two ultra-liberal justices Mr. Empty-suit Romney will nominate so he can "go along to get along"? Two ultra-liberal justice nominees that Republican Senators will be hesitant to turn down because they came from the leader of their Party? Those two new picks?
I am sick and tired of this craven argument that we will have to vote for Myth because of what will happen to the Supreme Court. A Republican President gave us David Souter. A Republican also gave us Justice Harry Blackmun. Remember him? He was the author of Roe v. Wade.
Peddle that stupid argument elsewhere.
LRon Paul Wants Kucinich in his Cabinet
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The best way to stop this is to stop people from paying attention to free public polls; They are lies at this stage. They rely on self-fulfilling prophecy via conformity manipulation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQI8pZJiMe0
I think you are right about manipulation. The news media sure rode the rise of Rick Santorum hard in IA, but which came first...the surge or the reporting on it?
“I desperately wish that those who insist that “the Tea Party is a juggernaut and so deserves an easy win in any GOP primary” would wake up and smell the damn coffee. It ain’t so. Not yet anyway, and maybe not for years.”
And maybe not ever.
Well said. I would also add that the only philosophical demographic that is actually growing on the conservative end of the spectrum these days is the libertarians.
Traditional conservatives are about to find themselves marginalized.
‘I used your picture’ ping.
Perry (5%) can’t communicate.
To make progress with a conservative political agenda. Does that really need to be said in this forum?
We can't make progress if we:
--> Are always forming circular firing squads.--> Are impatient with what politics in this vast country is able to deliver, which is incremental change.
--> Refuse to come to grips with the fact that all human beings have flaws, so there is no perfect candidate.
--> Refuse to come to grips with the fact that we are not going to agree with any other human being 100% of the time, nor they with us. And disagreements over public policy does not make them or us evil, just human.
I am A B O. If son of sam got the nomination i would support that over obama.
Well, you'd better hope that Myth doesn't get the nomination, because if he does, the only speech you'll be hearing from him after election day will be a concession speech. Romney will never, never get elected. What's more, he will have NO coat tails and the DemocRATs may keep the Senate and possibly take back Congress.
Hell, I'd support anyone to the right of Chairman Mao over the big Zero.
One more truth conservatives need to come to grips with...in every district in this country, people are free to choose however they want to register to vote.
There are million upon millions of people who decide to register as Republicans, each and every one of them holding a set of viewpoints unique to themselves -- unique due to their individual backgrounds, life experiences, even brain chemistry. They are Republicans because they self-determine themselves to be for whatever reasons. No one holds a gun to their heads to do so.
Therefore, to call someone a "Republican in name only" simply because he or she has a mix of political viewpoints different from one's own is the height of arrogance and, frankly, stupidity. Politics is about finding common ground with others, forming coalitions to further common causes and, as you said, persuasion. It most definitely is NOT about telling people to get lost, or about labeling them as "RINOs" or worse, thereby making the old "Reagan coalition" ever more narrow and limited.
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