Romney can beat two or three notromneys, but he can't beat us all united on one candidate. We have GOT to beat Obama, and in order to even have a fighting chance at beating Obama, we've got to beat Romney first.
Even if this poll is to be believed, Florida won't pick a conservative anyways. Which is ok, there's more primaries after it in which the unified conservative base can stomp Romney.
I’m no Romney fan, but no one ‘clings’ to a 26-point margin.
Even so, after Santorum coming from nowhere to more-or-less win here, I don’t believe the polls except the one election nite.
They want (like the State-Run-Media) the Establishment Candidate, aka, Romney-the-RINO to assure an Obama win.
RIGHT NOW, Santorum and Perry need to throw their support to Newt (you can't do anything about The Ralien, RP, and his support is from the fringe and Democrat cross-overs, anyway).
Romney-the-RINO cannot carry more than about 30% in a two-man race, IMHO.
Newt said today on Laura Ingraham’s show that, since Romney has so much money, he can start advertising in the various primary states well in advance of when the other candidates can.
Don’t lose hope. Funny thing is, I got a poll call for the GOP twice and BOTH times, the automated system allowed me to answer if I would be voting in the upcoming primary and then hung up on me before I could answer which candidate. These polls mean nothing.
There is no such thing as a "26-Point Lead" (sic) in Florida. There is only a poll. It should clearly say "poll" right in the title. This is not a vote total, this is not an election night return. This is not a delegate total. This could be contradicted by any number of polls.
Folks, we are losing our democracy when everything starts to become fused around POLLS and the MANAGEMENT OF REALITY BY THE STATE CONTROLLED MEDIA.
When is the last time on the evening news you saw them end the political story of the day with a "running delegate-to-date" tote chart (Race to the Nomination) that was standard in every presidential election I can remember up until about 20 years ago??
And to insist that any conservative get out of this race based on POLLS only is ludicrous and very disingenous.
If we ever cross into the language of "this one ought to get out", and "this one ought to stay". it should be based on what the current delegate totals are for the candidates. As I have said in that regard, among Conservatives left in the race, SANTORUM still leads Gingrich and Perry in Iowa and New Hampshire delegates as of this very Tuesday night (and just may well be declared the winner of the Iowa caucuses in the next 24 hours).
Poll is a joke.
Add all the Conservative vote and you still won’t beat Mittens in FL is this poll is anywhere near accurate.
Santorum 12
+
Gingrich 20
Subtract from Milt 46
Still a 14 point deficit. Why bother getting out when we have a Proportional Delegate scheme this year. Mittens may win the vote, but he won’t win all of what is important. Delegates.
No. Au contraire. It’s time for YOU to get out.
CLINGS?????????????????????????
This is the terminology of desperation not a winner.
Once Romney releases his Tax records ... it may be that his 26 points slips down to minus numbers.
CLINGS???????????
Is this a joke or a liberal agenda to make Mittens the victim?
So what the hell was he going to do before he had this change of heart, bail after three primaries? We need someone who will fight through the whole race and it doesn't look like that's Newt. Even his decision to stay in was tempered by a statement that implied he'd only stay in if it wasn't a blowout.
Things change and we need to take our best shot at this. I'm not at all confident putting our entire effort behind one guy.
JANUARY 17, 2012 Fla poll: Dead heat between Obama and Romney, who leads I-4 corridor tampabay
Among the 218 Republicans surveyed, Romney had the support of 42 percent, followed by 16 percent for Newt Gingrich, 13 percent for Rick Santorum, 9 percent for Ron Paul, 6 percent for Rick Perry, and 3 percent for Jon Huntsman. Ten percent were undecided.
Here is the tired old RINO inability to outwit and out think the Democrats.
Everything from NRO should get an automatic Barf alert. They are nothing but RINO liberal rag, whose reputation has sadly fallen below that of even Time or Newsweak.
I'm done. It's time for Santorum to get out. And anybody who cares to look into my posting history(yes this is a challenge) Newt is my least favorite of the not-romneys. As it stands right now, I'd rather see Santorum as the nominee.I agree, Santorum doesn't have the organization going forward (no one does apart from Romney, and maybe Perry, and of course the RINO fanatics working for Paul), he made his move in Iowa, and it took everything he had in order to do it. Then the drive-by partisan media shills falsely accused him of a (pseudo-) racist comment that he didn't make.
Flawed logic to assume all the “non Romney” votes will go to Newt or Santorum if one were to get out. To me it seems as Bachman, Huntsman have gotten out, Romney’s leads is increasing.
And Newt or Romney or Paul are not getting out. I think these 5 go to the end. One might suspend late and throw their delegates to someone else to try and get a cabinet post or something.
I think if the old Newt that we saw in last nights debate had not gone AWOL the last several weeks, he would be “clinging” to a 26 point lead. Too little too late I’m afraid for Newt.
At this point all I can hope for is Romney picks one helluva running mate.
None of the candidates other than mitt and maybe Newt are spending a lot of time in FL. It’s a waste of resources; the state is very large, very expensive to run a race in, and with the state losing a big chunk of delegates for running an early primary, there just aren’t enough delegates to win to make it worth the bother. It’s also winner take all state so unless a candidate has a realistic shot at displacing romney, they’re better off running a token race there.
I see no reason to back a 26 point loser.
I’m sticking with Santorum. Newt’s no longer competitive. At least I can feel good about supporting someone who actually agrees with me.