Posted on 02/04/2012 3:31:39 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
Those who continue to believe that Romney can be stopped are focused as is the campaign of Newt Gingrich on the possibility of a long delegate fight. They have largely given up hope of anyone winning a knockout victory over Romney, hoping instead that some other candidate can prevent the former Massachusetts governor from wrapping the race up before the Republican National Convention, which is set for Tampa, Fla., in late August.
We have never gone through a delegate fight like this, said Bob Vander Plaats, an influential conservative and the head of the Iowa-based Family Leader organization. You need around 600 delegates to win, and I think that will be very difficult for Gov. Romney.
Vander Plaats added that the reason Gingrich has been emphasizing that there are 46 states to go in the contest is because he can do the math.
Similar themes are sounded by prominent conservatives in the media. Erick Erickson of Red State wrote Thursday that the fact that many states award their delegates proportionally, rather than on a winner-take-all basis, could play to Gingrichs advantage.
If Gingrich is serious about staying in till the convention, he could deny Romney a first ballot win and spare the base from the man they dont like, even if Newt himself cannot get the nomination. He is more of a long shot today than he was a day before Florida, but he can still be the nominee, Erickson wrote.
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Thanks for letting me know. A Freeper friend told me she read that Newt was on the ballot in most TN counties but not all. She also said that citizens could petition to be able to write in Newt in those counties where he is not on the ballot. I really don’t know where she read the info she told me. Thanks again.
I hope the mess in VA gets straightened out so all the candidates can be on the ballor. I heard that Romney and Paul did not have to get signatures since they ran for office in 2008. That they were grandfathered. Wonder if that is true?
I heard from another Freeper that there is a petition out in VA for folks to petition for the counting of write-in votes. Hope votes for all the candidates will get counted.
“No vote for Romney under my roof...death before dishonor.”
Amen - well said! Taking out Romney is just as, if not more so, important to me at this point than taking out Obama. Obama is a obvious evil - Romney is chocolate covered poison. That makes him and insidious evil.
True, but I wass thinking of people in Super Tuesday states using that strategy...
Mittens won in New Hampshire - his home state.
He won in Florida - overrun with New Yorkers and liberal New Jerseyians.
He won in Nevada - state with a large Mormon population.
Only time will tell if big money can BUY an election.
The only good thing you can say about Mittens is he isn’t Obama. But if there is ANY chance this guy can be derailed, we need to work towards it. Four years of Mittens will be like another four Years of Bush II.
No I mean the write in candidate has to be a legitimate, registered write in candidate.
I remember reading about it on the TN state site and it said something about having to be registered with TN to be a legitimate write in candidate. The deadline is something like 2 months before the primary or some such thing.
Oh okay, I misunderstood you
Oh okay, I misunderstood you
If Romney is the eventual nominee, and I believe that he will be. This was, in my opinion, what the Bush-obama was for; to ensure obama that Romney would be, by hook or crook, the nominee, obama will not even have to campaign. The media will do his campaigning for him. He will be attacked with a savagery that will make the attacks on George Bush seem as child’s play. The attacks will be merciless and unrelenting each day, each hour there will be a smear story on him until the election is over. His wife and children will not be able to recognize him. They [the media members] already have the stories typed, all that is needed is for them to be dated and filed.
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