Posted on 01/28/2012 7:18:58 AM PST by GVnana
A new Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday reveals that evangelicals and Tea Party supporters are breaking hard for Newt Gingrich in Florida, putting the former House Speaker within two points of front-runner and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
A press release describing the poll states Gingrich "leads among white evangelical Christians 43 - 30 percent and among those who consider themselves to be tea party supporters 43 - 28 percent." Each segment makes up roughly a third of primary voters, according to Quinnipiac pollsters, "although there is substantial overlap among those two groups."
Coming off the heels of his victory in the South Carolina GOP primary, rising evangelical and Tea Party support has allowed Gingrich to slash nearly 10 points off of Romney's lead with less than a week to go before Florida's GOP primary.
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Totally agree! I still don’t know what’s in Newt’s baggage.
One has a liberal record - one conservative. If Newt wasn’t a game changer and that they know he will be restoring America - they wouldn’t be fighting so hard, like they did Sarah.
“My take on Rush is that he is just telling it like it is...he spent most of the last few days debunking the report that Newt was hyper critical of Reagan.”
Rush did just the opposite, he murdered Newt with it on Bloody Thursday, he knowingly lied about Newt even though he knew the truth.
Rush did his dirty work on Thursday, and this is how he rubbed our faces in it, he knew what he was doing, he teased us with the fact that he knew the truth, and then tossed the truth into the trash.
RUSH (on Bloody Thursday) But Ive got a blog here, guy named Dan Riehl. He claims that the video of Newt bashing Reagan is bogus, this 1988 audio that we played of Newt saying that Reagans wrong.
Heres the little blog post. Theres a short excerpt of a 1988 C-SPAN video purportedly showing Newt Gingrich bashing Reagan when talking about how Bush, Sr. should run his campaign, should not run as more Reagan, but do something new. Riehl writes, As I suspected, its edited to give a false impression. What you dont see is immediately after when Gingrich praises Reaganism and the Reagan platform. If you cant watch it all, it begins at about 2:30 in to confirm its the same segment. Its the minute or two afterward you also need to hear to understand that Newt wasnt bashing Reagan at all. He was merely saying, Bush isnt Reagan and the GOP needs something new to sell.
So I knew something like this was gonna happen. Its not really that its been doctored, but that it has been selectively chosen from. So I sent it up to Cookie cause I cant listen to it, I didnt have the time to listen it. Cookie said, Look, this thing is an hour long. Im sure he praises Reagan at some point or another, but I wouldnt say its doctored. So my expert says its not doctored. The blogger says its been selectively edited or chosen. So I just wanted to get it out there. I think Cookie is protesting having to listen to an hour of Newt, basically, in order to find (laughing) what I asked her to find. He-he-he-he-he-he.
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RUSH: Cookie is defiant. Shes giving me a minute and a half after of the Newt bite and shes insistent that nobodys doctored this and nobodys changed and Ive read the transcript, thats true. Newt still says look, the eighties were great but we gotta look forward, people people care about the future, da-da-da-da-da. He praises Reagan in the bite, which the first the the excerpted bite doesnt include any of but it doesnt change the fact that while praising Reaganism, he still says to George Bush, you youre wasting your time if you campaign on Reaganism. Nobody wants more of the past. We want to look forward, nothing changes about that. So the the Cookster was right.
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If the "Tea Party" wants to make a statement that it still matters in 2012, FL is the place to do it.
A Newt win in FL keeps the nomination fight alive through Super Tuesday in March. A Romney FL win is a victory for the establishment and just about sets his coronation.
The real prob. for Newt is that Mitt had an early 200,000 voting lead with early voting and then the Estab and everyone else killed him with ads and critics. If Newt pulls this off, if there were any justice, Rick and Ron would fold their tents but egos are more important.
Santorum won't because, unlike Rick Perry, he doesn't care about saving it.
no - as clearly said in the original post the concern of many in his flock is Mormonism.
You answered your own question. They are egotists. Screwing up the election makes them feel important even if it hurts a whole country full of people.
Rush mentions all the negatives stories about Newt, but none about Romney (and there are a lot more negatives about Romney). What should I conclude from this?
As for the lies about Newt and Reagan that came out this week, on the first day Rush presented them as fact. He said he didn’t remember it, then suggested it must be true because it was on video.
Just so. No normal person goes around talking about "Newt's baggage." it is a sign of someone who has not bothered to do the hard work of actually thinking for themselves.
AGREED! They rely on the media to tell them what to think/say.
Amazing how someone only uses half his brain to keep it fair suddenly can’t see an obvious hit job.
So now we know the REAL conservative and Patriot of the candidates - Rick Perry.
Early voting began in Florida about ten days ago...it ended on Saturday.
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