Posted on 02/17/2012 12:40:44 PM PST by Red Steel
ATLANTA – The campaign trail in Georgia is getting crowded.
With less than three weeks left until the state's March 6 presidential primary, candidates in the topsy-turvy Republican race are turning their attention to Super Tuesday's biggest delegate prize.
Newt Gingrich will play up his roots when he returns to his old home state to campaign for two days, beginning with a rally in Peachtree City Friday night.
Surging after a trio of wins in recent weeks, Rick Santorum will focus on his evangelical base, appearing Sunday night at a "God and Country" rally at First Redeemer Church in Cumming.
Mitt Romney headlined a rally in Atlanta last week and a political action committee backing the former Massachusetts governor has purchased a modest amount of air time in the state to run an anti-Gingrich ad. And Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said Thursday the candidate plans to spend "a lot of time campaigning in Georgia and Ohio ahead of Super Tuesday."
With 76 delegates at stake -- the most of the 10 Super Tuesday states -- the three GOP candidates are eying Georgia closely.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul won a Republican Party straw poll in the state last summer but hasn't been seen in the state campaigning.
Gingrich clearly holds an edge. The former House speaker represented a suburban Atlanta district for two decades and was in the trenches building up the state Republican Party at a time when Democrats dominated Georgia politics.
A recent poll confirmed Gingrich's front-runner status in the state. The survey, conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc., found Gingrich leading Romney 43 percent to 29 percent among likely voters in Georgia.
Santorum had 12 percent, while Paul trailed with 6 percent
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It's interesting to see where each of the remaining candidates are from compared to where they are typically associated in terms of their political careers.
Shall I conclude you live in Georgia, my FRiend? :>
and the cowards run away like the cowards they are to debate him but expect to debate obama, what utter chicken crap cowards they are.
FL showed conservatives how the north east establishment will do anything to destroy the opposition , we in the south are just votes who are told to shut up and just get behind their pathetic spineless cowardly guy.
Other than the weather, the people, the government and the mountains, PA is a great place to live.
the cowards know that Newt can get his big jump form us down here in the south and those snotty nosed elitist establishment figures can’t have the south raining on their parade.
No sir, who the hell does the south the base of conservatives think they are that they should pick the candidate, nope they have to have their north east guy at all costs.
I guess this time they couldn’t pack the debate hall like they did in north east FL, I guess that debates are too much for the cowards to debate in Newts backyard
not looked but my guess is that you are either a yankee,or , west coast la la land or a transplant to the south?
And then there's also the union goons. That's primarily what drove me out and my move to Right to Work Texas. I did lead a successful movement to get a union decertified just before I fled. In that respect, I left Pennsylvania a better place!
...and the potholes...but that's whole 'nother matter. :-)
Nyuk, Nyuk,
I just saw on Fox, one of Romney’s (chuckle, uncontrollable) SUPER Pac ads listing the hypocricy of the Reverend Santimonius.
OUCH! http://www.rickfacts.com/?page_id=2
I forgot to add the roads in my list of complaints... and Jersey drivers over here too.
The word “Lobbyist” has yet to arise.
Or That the Republican Elites decided Rico and Myth should refuse to debate at the CNN Georgia Debate because Newt would trash them along with the conservative audience!
I think he was satisfied being the Yorkie in a sweater vest yapping from the sidelines.
He will try and slide through the next debate, but I expect him to duck and cover the majority of the rest of the way.
The ruling class gives the finger to the South.
Southerners are America...
Santo can easily lose it and likely will, just as easily as he got it . He's no lock over the next 3 to 5 months. This thing is going to go all the way to the end. And furthermore, I'm not going from thread to thread crapping all over Santo like a number of SantoBots do to Gingrich.
Almost fell outa my chair when I saw the headline for this thread. Nothing against Yankees mind you, but it’s a total joke to say Newt has “Georgia roots. He’s a pure Pennsylvania Yankee. He talks like a Yankee, he walks like a Yankee, and he probably has hash browns for breakfast instead of grits.
To make matters worse, Newt even carries a non-Southern surname, Gingrich. How many folks with that kinda Pennsylvania Dutch name are you gonna find in the north Georgia Blue Ridge, in the Okefenokee, or in the Savannah social directory?
Now of course, Newt might take most of the Georgia GOP delegates. More power to him if he does. But just don’t call him a “Georgia boy” or a “cracker” or a “redneck” or any other such term that we in the South wear with pride!
Yeah sure, whatever. Newt represented the state of Georgia very well over decades and Georgians appreciated his long distinguished Congressional career as a representative of the state of Georgia.
I had ancestors who used to live in Pennsylvania...
along the Susquehanna River Valley...
Bradford, Wyoming, Luzerne counties..
RCP gives Rick 15% not 30%.
Somehow I doubt that the voice of a pro-abortionist that donated tens of millions of $$$ would be silent during debates on judges for the next president.....js.
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/291235/why-newts-biggest-donor-so-opposed-santorum
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