Posted on 01/31/2012 5:48:18 PM PST by time4good
I came home and was totally bummed by the results so far. I looked for anything on FR to cheer me up. Finally I succumbed and went to the former-other favorite website Drudge and begrudgingly clicked on the 'Landslide' article - blah blah blah and there, at the very bottom - I found my glimmer of hope: In a positive sign for Gingrich, exit polls showed evangelical voters trending for the former House speaker. The exit polls showed Gingrich with 40 percent among that group, and Romney with 36 percent.
But the margin was wider for Romney among seniors and Hispanics. Half of the seniors polled were supporting Romney, while 35 percent backed Gingrich. Romney also led Gingrich 56-29 percent among Hispanic voters, the largest minority in the state, exit polling showed.
Voters overwhelmingly went for Romney among those who said winning in November is the most important quality in a Republican nominee. But for voters who valued "true conservative" credentials as their top quality, Gingrich led with 46 percent, followed by Santorum at 26 percent and Paul at 16 percent. Among those voters, Romney was last with 11 percent.
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Romney won the metro, academia and Northerner counties
Newt won Old Florida
even down to the peckerwood ring around Ockeechobee
I would like to see a precinct or zip code shading
I bet it would show Romney in populated areas and Newt out county.
I guess Okaloosa went Mitt because of northern retirees...and it's sort of a metropolis on the coast...
much of the interior central ring around Orlando is northern retired folks and transplants
a very telling map...the divide in purple Florida between Conservative and Not...
Speaking of same, while scanning through the channels tonight, I saw a graphic showing this about Romney voters in Florida:
Go Newt GO!
Well I hope you dont mind if we carry the fight on for awhile longer.
LOL. Rick has ZERO charisma. Santorum and his supporters are delusional if they think he will go anywhere. He has NO leadership qualities.
I am starting to believe that he is strictly in it to be Mits's VP.
Newt has his flaws, but we need a fighter. Newt will do a lot for the Conservative cause.
Newt is up to the fight and will succeed in defeating the evil, vile Statist Mitt and then defeating Obama.
If it’s just a political stunt then why would Brit Hume be reacting so violently on air? It’s weird. I have no knowledge or opinion of the situation but it seemed like there would have to be a personal grudge to explain brit’s unprofessional behavior.
Too much for the hoax Santorum !
Those who voted for him in FLa are ....wait huuuuh .
What are they going to do next ?
Remember that, shamefully, many brainwashed socialist “catholics”(and i am an old fashion catholic knowing rather well the catholic church from inside) voted for Obama in 2008.
The question is, if Santorum is a tool for Obama or Romney ?
The answer could be both
Everyone who feels let down over Romney’s win and are praying for Newt I offer this song to comfort us Keep Praying guys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjSaE9yBRD0&feature=related
PS. : one could add liberal and/or socialist catholics(for me a degeneracy of catholicism)....voted for Obama
Keep praying and fighting
Like you, I used to admire Brit Hume. In the past few weeks, however, he has been spouting things as though he is now a Democrat strategist. ....He and Krauthammer have both disappointed me in this election cycle, as they seem to want the Pubs to just end it all and nominate Romney. Add O’Reilly to that group, as well.
Yep. Kinda like Colin Powell talking RINO Bush 41 into pulling out of Iraq when we could have taken out Saddam and shut down the war there. .....Gen. Schwartzkopf (sp?) would have cleaned out Iraq of all the enemy combatants.
Florida has had the misfortune of being the reception of countless elderly Yankee liberals who have transformed the State politically.
I lived in Western NC for eleven years. The Boston types retire in Florida and spend summers in WNC. I would like to see how many absentee votes in both places match up.
There is only one thing to do. Newt stays in until that little pr*ck Santorum drops out then we have a clear debate between the candidates.
Come on Sarah, get on Newt’s bus.
FReeper lonevoice posted a good recap of the events that took place with the attempted House coup over Gingrich and the players involved, some of it pertaining to the Humes. I don’t know why Hume hates Gingrich but it sounds like the rumors are just that, rumors, and his son’s death had nothing to do with blackmail. I think he was just a sad and deeply troubled young man.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2838293/posts?page=58#58
John Boehner, Tom Delay, Dick Armey, and Bill Paxton led the attempted GOP coup against Gingrich’s Speakership of the House in 1997. They feared their own election prospects might be imperiled by the ethics investigations and the entire MSM firing everything they had to take down Newt Gingrich. It was the pre-Palin template, with Gingrich surrounded by cowards who feared standing next to him in the MSM spotlight.
In December of 1996, as the ethics investigation was nearing a conclusion, a married couple (who just coincidentally happened to be Democrat activists) were driving in their car, just coincidentally within a mile of John Boehner driving his car in Florida. The couple, the Martins, just happened coincidentally to have a police scanner in their car, attached to a recorder. They just coincidentally had their scanner turned on and tuned into the same frequency as John Boehner’s car phone. John Boehner just coincidentally pulled off the road to be on a conference call with Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, Tom Delay and Bill Paxon talking about Newt’s coming response to the ethics charges which were to be disclosed later that day.
After the Martins recorded the phone call, they wasted no time getting the recording to Baghdad Jim McDermott, who got it almost immediately to the New York Times, who all hoped there might be something about the conversation that could lead to charges against Newt for discussing his strategy re: the ethics charges. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/congress/january97/cellular_1-14.html
I heard that Tom DeLay came out today to pile on Gingrich, along with Bob Dole. Speaker Boehner hasn’t said anything yet, but you can bet he wants to. When Newt busted him for his part in the GOP attempted coup of 1997, Boehner tried to convince Newt that he was only acting as a mole, a double agent if you will, to try to find out what nefarious plot the others were up to. You can bet Gingrich didn’t buy it for a minute.
Surely Newt also put together the fact that Boehner’s “intercepted” car phone call of a few months earlier was no accident, and wouldn’t have been possible had Boehner not been an eager participants, perhaps even hatching the plan himself. Interestingly enough, Boehner was the only guy who didn’t say anything during that conference call. Once again proving how weasely he was, just like when he tried to convince Gingrich that he was only spying during the attempted GOP coup.
There are very powerful forces allied against the possibility of Newt Gingrich becoming the nominee. These are people who haven’t been sleeping well at night since the Gingrich surge. Newt knows where all the bodies are buried...and why. They are fighting for their very lives.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2838293/posts?page=80#80
Good stuff! Thanks.
Paxon was Newt’s right hand guy, the only one of the four co-conspirators for whom Newt had created a position in the House (Republican Leadership Chairman) specifically for the purpose of appointing him to it. When the coup failed, Paxon was the only one of the four that Newt could strip of his position, since his was an appointed one, whereas the other three had been elected to theirs. As part of the coup, it had been agreed between the co-conspirators that Paxon was to replace Newt as Speaker. When the conspiracy was exposed to Newt (by Armey’s chief of staff), Newt promptly canned Paxon, and shortly thereafter Paxon resigned from Congress, along with a promise never to return to public office, not even as dog catcher. Since Newt so trusted Paxon, that betrayal probably hurt a lot.
Molinari has as much reason as any to hate Gingrich. Actually, I’m paying close attention now to just who it is that’s willing to stand by Newt publicly. Those are the ones who are probably more deserving of our confidence and trust. Right now among my short list: Fred Thompson, Sarah Palin, Rick Perry, Herman Cain (I heard him on Laura Ingraham this morning telling her that of the candidates still in the race Newt is the one who is closest to Reagan’s principles.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2838293/posts?page=81#81
On the eve of the coup, Dick Armey told his chief of staff to tell Newt what was about to happen. Armey, one of the four coup co-conspirators, got ticked off when he found out Paxon was supposed to replace Newt as Speaker, when Armey had believed that he himself was assured of that position. This is how Newt found out and was able to confront and expose the co-conspirators and put an end to it.
Scarborough had always been Sandy Hume’s source for leaks coming out of Congress, and him telling Sandy about the failed coup (after the fact, of course) wouldn’t have been out of character for their relationship. In spite of a really ugly rumor that Ann Northrup, writer for “Lesbian and Gay New York”, tried to fabricate, the coup attempt and its aftermath were completely unrelated to Sandy Hume’s fate, and have no bearing on how Brit Hume does or doesn’t feel towards Gingrich. IMO.
The common thread running through much of the elite GOPs hatred of Gingrich, and efforts to take him out, is: John Boehner. With able assistance, naturally, from his old well-placed cronies.
What do you call South Carolina?
Idaho is pretty heavy Mormon.
I went to bed early. I figured if the news was good my brother would have called me.
I DIDN’T HEAR THE SPEECH CAN YOU TELL MY IT WAS GOOD. WAS IT ONE OF HIS BEST?
I have a hard time believing 16% of conservatives picked Cut and Run. No true conservative would support an anti-American pork barrel king who blames America for 9/11. Endorses Cynthia McKinney for president, praises code pink and OWS and wants our military to experiment with perverts.
What other state or states is "major like FL?" The way I interpret your conclusion is either that that TX, PA, OH are not "major states like FL," or that in order to win, a candidate must take ALL the "major states like FL," so that losing one of them signals the entire race is over.
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