Posted on 02/14/2012 9:06:14 AM PST by katiedidit1
Hang on to your hats folks! this election could go on for quite sometime.
"Gingrich planners projected that with only 396 delegates chosen in March, no clear frontrunner is likely to emerge until Texas (155 delegates on April 3) and there too the endorsement and help of Gov. Perry is to their advantage." It is a long and winding road until any candidate wins over 1,000 delegates needed to become the nominee.
Read more on Newsmax.com: Evans: How Gingrich Wins the GOP Nomination
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Keep fighting the good fight. The fat lady hasn’t even tuned up yet.
GO NEWT!
Kind of sounds like wishful thinking at this point
Is Texas winner-take-all?
Well it certainly isn’t over til it’s over...but this may indeed go to a brokered convention short of any deals which might be struck beforehand...and ususally candidates will do that to avoid going to convention. Though Newt had said he was staying in even if it means a brokered convention....
I’m just uncertain how this will all play out as money issues become just that, and the American voters can really be fickle when it comes to swallowing the kool-aid spewed to them over TV and airwaves.
Newt’s my guy no matter where this leads in the weeks ahead....I will be frightened for our country if Romney or Santorum wins. People are as much fooled by Santorum as they are Rommney.......The man does not have the ability nor the backing or expertise to move the congress any more than Obama has had. And he certainly comes down hard on big governement.
In reality, we are LIGHT YEARS away from electing the nominee. Newt could make 10 comebacks between now and August. If he wins Texas, George, etc ...it will turn it around another 10 times.
Go Newt!!!!!!!!!!!!!
from the article: “no clear frontrunner is likely to emerge until Texas (155 delegates on April 3) and...”
That April 3 date is unlikely. Today there will be another post-Supreme Court-decision hearing before Federal Judges Orlando Garcia and Xavier Rodriguez, in yet another attempt to allow Texas to have elections. Texas is still under reconstruction, you know.
May it be so! Newt all the way to the White House. Time for everyone who supports Newt to send him more money.
Indeed in Colorado, Romney was not only defeated by five points in a state he won with 60 percent of the vote four years ago, but this setback came at the hands of a candidate whom he had outspent by a margin of 40 to 1.
"Prodigiously mendacious."
Yes indeed. I think it is also prodigiously mendacious to be getting this "Ok, Ok, vote for whomever you want as long as it's not Gingrich," BS
Never ceases to amaze me how competent people get pilloried in this culture.
bingo! If only they would listen to him. I am certain that a lot of RS support is just lazy Conservatives who just follow some talking heads lead. They are too lazy to go and look at their speeches, read their platforms and ponder the danger our Republic is in.
Newt is the only one that is focused on specific steps to downsize government.
I studied RS's platform. There are a few bones in there, but mostly empty rhetoric that is more process than substance.
The guy has never led anything in his life. He is more about trying to impress people with how "pure" he is as a conservative.
People should read his direct criticisms of the Tea Party in 09. People should see the youtubes of him attacking and being amazing petty towards Sarah Palin (see 2011 CPAC dust up). If it's not about Rick (Tea Party) if someone in his age group that is a superior crowd pleaser (Sarah) then he carries on like a 10 year old.
The reality is that RS is in way, way over his head. They guy is a disaster waiting to happen.
The people will, in the end, get the government they deserve.
Well it’s out of my hands. Me and the wife wasted our vote for Noot a while back here in sunny Florida.
I think I’m going through debate withdrawals. When is the next one . . . Feb 22? Go NEWT!
Super post and very intelligent read.
I’m confident in my competent candidate.
GO NEWT!!!
I have never seen a primary that was supposedly “decided” so far in advance, particularly one that was often “decided” on the basis of ever-changing popularity polls published practically on an hourly basis.
It’s bizarre.
Gingrich certainly has plenty of time to win this one. But I think the libs have perhaps given up on Romney, and are now pushing for Santorum (since he has equally little chance of winning the general election and a fairly liberal voting and fiscal issues record that will dissuade conservatives once it comes out).
I have said it before, I will say it again:
Super Tuesday is going to be a painful reality for Rick Santorum supporters. The delegate count after Super Tuesday is going to be a wake-up call for everyone looking to defeat Romney. More than that, they are going to see just how much “waiting to be assigned delegates later” because of ballot problems is going to hurt his claim as the “real” alternative to Mitt Romney.
Wherever he can actually win on Super Tuesday, Rick will net few delegates even if he does. In places where Romney will win, Mitt will net most of the states’ delegates, same with Newt (GA, for example).
Three full weeks until that day. Only Santorum backers believe nothing will change in that whole period of time.
bttt
In before the inevitable “It’s not too late for Palin” comment...
Yes, and his confidence is contagious.
| Republican Delegate Selection | ||||
| Key | Delegate Selection | Jurisdictions | Delegates in these Jurisdictions |
Percentage of Delegates |
| WTAP | Winner-Take-All | 14 | 639 | 27.95% |
| PP | Proportional Primary | 10 | 442 | 19.34% |
| CC | Caucus/Convention | 16 | 420 | 18.37% |
| WTAP/T2P+PP | District: Winner-Take-All or top two; Statewide: Proportional | 3 | 156 | 6.82% |
| WTAP/PP | If winner receives a majority Winner-Take-All Primary otherwise Proportional Primary | 2 | 153 | 6.69% |
| LP | Loophole Primary | 2 | 141 | 6.17% |
| WTAP:D+WTA/PP:S | District: Winner-Take-All Primary, Statewide: if winner receives a majority Winner-Take-All Primary otherwise Proportional Primary | 4 | 134 | 5.86% |
| WTA+PP+CC | Combined Selection [Winner-Take-All Primary for District Delegates with Caucus/Convention] | 2 | 77 | 3.37% |
| PP+CC | Combined Selection [Proportional Primary with Caucus/Convention] | 1 | 46 | 2.01% |
| WTAP:D+PP:S+CC | Combined Selection [Winner-Take-All Primary by CD, Proportional Primary (statewide), Caucus/Convention (statewide)] | 1 | 43 | 1.88% |
| AP | Advisory Primary | 1 | 35 | 1.53% |
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