Posted on 02/07/2012 5:08:04 PM PST by Anti-Hillary
Open for discussion.
Romney:1,177,544
NOT ROMNEY: 1,731,145!!!!!!!
This helps end the MSM assault on Gingrich to drop-out that was inflating Romney as a sure thing.
Now we get back to dialogue, where Gingrich shines. :)
AMEN! ain't no two ways about it....
Beautiful...long time since I saw those words...Thanks.
I think Santorum ought to keep putting it in these stark terms because of the danger from Obama (the new fascist dictator).
“Not Romney
1,731,145!!!!!!!”
BUMP!!
Awesome!!! Thank you good people of Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri AND Mr. Santorum!!! Newt is still my first choice, but Lord, I am one darn happy constitutional conservative American tonight :):)
YAY!!!
Thank you Lord, for blessings without number.
Tatt
Can you imagine if the general election were held staggered like this in different states over 4 months time?
Given the Constitutional mandate that the Electors always had to VOTE for President/Vice-President on the same day, it seems strange to us now that from 1792 to 1844 the date of the APPOINTMENT of the Electors for President and Vice-President by the States of the Union were staggered over a 34 day period. While not four months, this 34 day selection/election period for Electors for the first fifteen Presidential elections was finally ended and replaced with a single date for said appointment/election of Electors by the several States by the Congress.
The reason for the change was that the Congress could no longer avoid the fact that members of a certain political Party (which shall go nameless) would vote for electors in their home State and then 'move' to a bordering State which had a later election date and then vote for electors in their 'new' home State, and then repeat to yet another bordering State which had their elections even later in that 34 day period. After this great electoral tour was complete, they would return to their original 'home' State content with the knowledge that they had done more than their fair share in upholding the tradition of voting early and often... After the 1844 elections the Congress changed the Law in 1845 those voting shenanigans could no longer take place.
1792 through 1844:...[E]lectors shall be appointed in each State for the election of a President and Vice-President of the United States, within thirty-four days preceding the first Wednesday in December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and within thirty-four days preceding the first Wednesday in December in every fourth year succeeding the last election, which Electors shall be equal to the number of Senators and Representatives, to which the several States may by Law be entitled at the time...
from 1 Stat. 239, Section 1
Source: TheGreenPapers.com : DATES OF U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION "EVENTS" (about mid-page)
dvwjr
LOL!!! Dear Lord, posts like yours Annie make me bust with pride - for being a FReeper, AND an AMERICAN.
Thank you.
And thank you Lord, for strengthening us today, just as you gave strength and determination to the founders of this nation that was born in your Holy Name.
Tatt
Oh WOW! Santorum’s add does indeed speak volumes...Wow! I am really impressed. HE’s showing visually what we all see hapening with the media, pundits, Drudge and all the rest on the Romney gravey train. Just WoW!
The notable bombast combined with lack of substance reminded me of certain Perry supporters (not all) before he dropped out.
Oops.
Cheers!
Amen
Oh my.... you fill my heart, hoosiermama...Sometimes it feels like so long ago.
Washington D.C. September 12th, 2009.
Can you hear us now? Indeed, I believe they can.
Thank you Lord for strength.
Tatt
ELECTION RESULTS: Pulaski County Presidential Preference Primary
By: Darrell Todd Maurina
http://www.pulaskicountydaily.com/news.php?viewStory=3223
PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (Feb. 7, 2012) — Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum was the blowout winner of the Pulaski County precincts for Tuesday's presidential preference primary, gathering more than 60 percent of the votes, more than double his closest competitor. While numerous candidates are on the ballot, the active Republican candidates are Mitt Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, Rick Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, and Ron Paul, a Texas congressman. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich did not file the necessary paperwork to get his name on the ballot for the Missouri primary.
Santorum won every precinct in Pulaski County that voted on Tuesday, nearly all by a margin of at least two-to-one over Romney, who in all cases was his closest competitor. Paul was a distant third in the race. The one exception to that pattern was the absentee votes, which Romney won by a margin of 39 to 19.
Santorum’s victory margin of 62 percent in Pulaski County was even higher than his statewide Missouri victory margin of 55.2 percent. Santorum won every one of Missouri's counties; a statewide county-by-county report can be found at this link: http://www.sos.mo.gov/enrmaps/20120207/county_map.asp?party=rep
Tuesday's results are a presidential preference race which doesn't actually select delegates. Due to national Republican Party rules, Missouri would have lost half of its delegates to the Republican National Convention if the primary had selected the delegates, so when the Missouri legislature failed to agree on a later date for the primary, Missouri Republicans agreed to hold a later caucus on March 17 to select delegates to the April 21 congressional district conventions; delegates won't be bound to a specific candidate on March 17 unless a local rule is adopted to do so, but they identify their presidential candidate at the April 21 vote and are thereafter bound to that candidate on the first ballot of the Republican National Convention.
The Pulaski County caucuses are tentatively scheduled for 10 a.m. in the county courthouse basement. Locations of other Republican county caucuses and details on delegate selection can be found at this link: http://www.mogop.org/2012stateconvention/caucuses/
Countywide, Santorum won by a margin of 813 votes to 309 for Romney and 105 for Paul. No other candidate received more than 15 votes.
While Santorum won by large margins countywide, his victory margins were largest in the rural and more conservative northern parts of Pulaski County. In Crocker, he won by a six-to-one margin of 132 to 24 for Romney, with 12 for Paul; similar margins prevailed elsewhere with a four-to-one margin of 91 to 22 in Richland with 12 for Paul and almost three-to-one in Dixon with a 146 to 53 victory over Romney with 20 for Paul, and a margin of more than four-to-one in Laquey of 68 to 15 with 7 for Paul.
Even in the more urban precincts of Waynesville and Saint Robert, Santorum won big. In Waynesville, which is often the county's largest precinct by vote, Santorum won by a margin of 203 to 77 with 26 for Paul. In St. Robert, which includes Fort Leonard Wood votes, the margin was still two-to-one with 95 for Santorum, 47 for Romney and 11 for Paul.
Turnout was generally low throughout the county. Overall, only 1,495 or 6.88 percent of the county's 21,743 registered voters cast ballots, with turnout ranging from a low of 3.14 percent or 181 of 5,757 voters in St. Robert, where many voters are military personnel on Fort Leonard Wood who often don't cast ballots, to a high of more than 10 percent in Richland and Swedeborg. As is often the case, rural parts of Pulaski County with lower population had substantially higher turnout percentages.
Those vote totals were 36 or 11.6 percent of 313 registered voters in Swedeborg; 152 or 10.3 percent of 1,463 registered voters in Richland; 21 or 9.6 percent of 219 voters in Big Piney; 184 or 8.57 percent of 2,147 voters in Crocker; 74 or 8.3 percent of 894 registered voters in the Hooker precinct east of Saint Robert including the Highway 28 corridor and Devil's Elbow; 256 or 8.14 percent of 3,146 voters in Dixon; 104 or 6.04 percent of 1,723 voters in Laquey, and 326 or 5.36 percent of 6,081 voters in Waynesville.
While the Republican Party race was the only seriously contested race in Missouri, President Barack Obama had three challengers, Randall Terry, Darcy G. Richardson and John Wolfe, for the Democratic Party nomination, and five people in Pulaski County cast third-party ballots, two for uncommitted Constitution Party delegates (one each in Laquey and Waynesville), two for Libertarian Party candidate James Orland Ogle III (one each in Waynesville and via absentee ballot), and one Richland voter for an uncommitted Libertarian ballot.
As expected, Obama won overwhelmingly in the Democratic Party race, gaining a total of 136 voters or 76.8 percent of 177 Democratic Party ballots cast. Terry and Wolfe had five votes each with seven for Richardson and 24 for uncommitted delegates.
The total number of Democratic ballots was 11.8 percent of the countywide total, but substantially higher in some precincts. Absentee voters were 41.4 percent Democrats, totaling 58 of 140 ballots, followed by high percentages in the county's two smallest precincts, a quarter of Swedeborg’s 36 voters with nine casting Democratic ballots and three Democrats or 14.3 percent of voters in Big Piney precinct. In Waynesville, 22 or 12.1 percent of voters chose Democratic Party ballots, followed by 18 Democrats or 11.8 percent in Richland, 8 Democrats or 10.8 percent in Hooker, 18 Democrats or 9.9 percent in St. Robert, 10 Democrats or 9.3 percent in Laquey, 21 Democrats or 8.2 percent in Dixon, and 10 Democrats or 5.3 percent in Crocker.
I've been saying this for a while, though until tonight I didn't think it was realistic — I like the idea of Newt Gingrich as vice-president, where the responsibilities include serving as president of the Senate, though in modern history vice-presidents only rarely have presided.
It's not as if Gingrich, in his role as Speaker of the House, doesn't have a history of serving in the role of presiding officer of a house of Congress.
This could be especially helpful if the Democrats retain control of the Senate. Imagine Gingrich using parliamentary procedure to tangle regularly with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Gingrich, as a backbencher, used the then-new technology of C-Span to blow up long-encrusted “good-old-boy” collegiality in the House of Representatives. That's something he's good at. Imagine what he might be able to do in the Senate.
I received a press release from U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt last night saying that despite Santorum’s victory he expects that Romney will win the nomination.
Here's the text:
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 7, 2012) — In light of tonight's presidential primary results in Missouri, please consider the following statement from U.S. Senator Roy Blunt:
“I congratulate my friend Rick Santorum on his win tonight, but the fact remains that this is a non-binding primary, meaning Missouri's delegates are still very much up for grabs. Mitt Romney has the organization and the resources to go the distance in this election, and I believe he'll ultimately win our party's nomination.
“Voters in Missouri and across America are deeply concerned about the state of the Obama Economy, including the record debt and out-of-control government spending that we've witnessed under this administration. Mitt Romney has the experience in the private sector and as governor to help turn our economy around, which is why I believe he's the most likely Republican candidate to win against President Obama this November.”
Writer33 is right.
It has not been at all clear what would happen with Gingrich votes if Gingrich were to leave the race (which I'm not advocating, by the way). With Gingrich not getting on the ballot in Missouri, this had the unintended and unexpected consequence of being the first situation where we saw what would happen in a three-way Romney-Santorum-Paul matchup. Apparently when confronted with the need to make an actual choice, large numbers of Gingrich voters decided to pull the lever for Santorum and not for Romney.
Missouri's voter dynamics being what they are (until recently when Missouri started to track more conservative, this was traditionally a “bellwether” state that was a good predictor of national trends because the state is partly southern, partly northern, partly urban and partly rural) this demonstration of what Gingrich voters will do if their candidate is not on the ballot may have broader relevance.
The Virginia race between Romney and Ron Paul will show what happens with a “not-Romney” vote. We all know that Ron Paul has a small core of dedicated supporters, and his percentages have been consistent throughout the races so far, but most Republicans **REALLY** don't like Paul.
If Paul wins Virginia it will send a very strong message that even though most Republicans don't like Ron Paul, they **REALLY REALLY REALLY** don't like Romney.
Gingrich missing the Missouri ballot deadline and everybody but Romney and Paul failing to get enough signatures in Virginia may end up being useful after all.
I said almost 2 months ago,I would never vote for Romney,and I would never vote for Newt.I said maybe Santorum.Newt is an inside the beltway cheater who couch potatoed with Pelosi.Romney is Romneycare and no differant than Obama.Everyone said I was a fool,that Santorum had no chance at all.Well if my single vote counts for anything anymore,I will throw it away for Santorum.No to Newt,No to Romney.
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