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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What’s wrong with the mountains?
I just pulled my Roadmaster Estate Wagon out for the first time in years and first gear slips. Bands are shot. Hills suck to make it go. When I retire after my job here in PA is done, I am going to head out west in the flat desert. Year round heat and no snow will suit me fine.
Hah!
You’ll want Phoenix or Tucson, then. You wouldn’t like New Mexico where I live, in the mountains east of Albuquerque.
Plenty of snow—and MUD!!— this winter. Not like Colorado or Utah or further north, of course, but more than what you’re looking for.
Good luck.
I’m looking forward to Newt bringing the fight to Hussein, with all his historical *firsts*:
• First President to Preside Over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United States Government
• First President to Violate the War Powers Act
• First President to Orchestrate the Sale of Murder Weapons to Mexican Drug Cartels
• First President to issue an unlawful “recess-appointment” while the U.S. Senate remained in session (against the advice of his own Justice Department).
• First President to be Held in Contempt of Court for Illegally Obstructing Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
• First President to Defy a Federal Judge’s Court Order to Cease Implementing the ‘Health Care Reform’ Law
• First President to halt deportations of illegal aliens and grant them work permits, a form of stealth amnesty roughly equivalent to “The DREAM Act”, which could not pass Congress
• First President to Require All Americans to Purchase a Product From a Third Party
• First President to Spend a Trillion Dollars on ‘Shovel-Ready’ Jobs — and Later Admit There Was No Such Thing as Shovel-Ready Jobs
• First President to sue states for requiring valid IDs to vote, even though the same administration requires valid IDs to travel by air
• First President to Abrogate Bankruptcy Law to Turn Over Control of Companies to His Union Supporters
• First President to sign into law a bill that permits the government to “hold anyone suspected of being associated with terrorism indefinitely, without any form of due process. No indictment. No judge or jury. No evidence. No trial. Just an indefinite jail sentence.”
• First President to Bypass Congress and Implement the DREAM Act Through Executive Fiat
• First President to Threaten Insurance Companies After They Publicly Spoke out on How Obamacare Helped Cause their Rate Increases
• First President to Threaten an Auto Company (Ford) After It Publicly Mocked Bailouts of GM and Chrysler
• First President to “Order a Secret Amnesty Program that Stopped the Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Across the U.S., Including Those With Criminal Convictions”
• First President to Demand a Company Hand Over $20 Billion to One of His Political Appointees
• First President to Terminate America’s Ability to Put a Man into Space.
• First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at Polling Places
• First President to Have a Law Signed By an ‘Auto-pen’ Without Being “Present”
• First President to Arbitrarily Declare an Existing Law Unconstitutional and Refuse to Enforce It
• First President to Tell a Major Manufacturing Company In Which State They Are Allowed to Locate a Factory
• First President to refuse to comply with a House Oversight Committee subpoena.
• First President to File Lawsuits Against the States He Swore an Oath to Protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN, etc.)
• First President to Withdraw an Existing Coal Permit That Had Been Properly Issued Years Ago
• First President to Fire an Inspector General of Americorps for Catching One of His Friends in a Corruption Case
• First President to Propose an Executive Order Demanding Companies Disclose Their Political Contributions to Bid on Government Contracts
• First President to allow Mexican police to conduct law enforcement activities on American soil
• First President to Golf 90 or More Times in His First Three Years in Office
But remember: he will not rest until all Americans have jobs, affordable homes, green-energy vehicles, and the environment is repaired, etc., etc., etc.
Another recent poll showed Santorum in a pretty close second and Romney in a distant third.
This will probably be the only other state Gingrich wins, maybe Indiana where Santorum is not on the ballot.
I live below the Blue Mountain on the Appalachian Trail. Besides the hippies hiking it smoking dope, that hill sucks all around.
Not to us.
“...“Georgia boy” or a “cracker” or a “redneck” or any other such term that we in the South wear with pride!”
Exactly which class are you of? My southern ancestors would have cut you in two if you had addressed them with those terms.
I IS A PROUD REDNECK
SHOW THAT NECK
BE PROUD OF IT
SIR!
I think the posts on this forum are mostly fictional of late, esp as they apply to the unvetted Mr. SAntorum, but since you seem to be a smart man, I’ll ask you.
There have posts here indicating that SAntorum is NOT even on the ballot in TN, IL, ND, Virginia etc. Is he or isn’t he?
>> Exactly which class are you of? <<
I’m an American who doesn’t buy your “class” thing. Let’s leave class analysis to the “progressives” and their Marxist mentors.
Both Santorum and Gingrich are NOT on the ballot in VA
Santorum IS on the Ballot and DOES have a slate of
Delegates in ND. Unless he wins 80% of the vote by himself, this won’t be an issue. If he wins 50-60% of the vote, he’ll be fine.
In TN, the executive committee allows delegates to be appointed even after the contest. Santorum is on the ballot here. There’s 14 delegates in question as to whether or not he is eligible to receive from the Executive committe, but in regards to the other 41 tied to the statewide vote, he is fine.
Santorum is not on the ballot in 4 Congressional Districts in IL totaling 10 delegates. All 4 CD’s are tied to the Cook County/Chicago Area and represent for the most part “Mark Kirk” type Republicans. He WILL be on the ballot in the rest of the CD’s where he is expected to do well and where up to 4 delegates per CD are awarded. However, IL has some shady rules for choosing 12 of their delegates that seems to be in no way tied to any vote.
And since you didn’t mention IN, I’ll list what I know here. Most likely Santorum will remain on the IN ballot depsite being 8 signatures short in Marion County. Of a panel of 2 Republicans (including a Romney co-chair) and 2 Democrats, it takes 3 votes to kick someone off the ballot, and both Democrats have indicated they have no interest in dropping Santorum off of it.
Hope this helps.
The GOP is a sorry bunch of pathetic incompetents led by a cabal of blue blood country clubbers and their creepy pulled back wives over at the RNC.
I won't be sticking with the GOP ticket regardless of who is on it.
Don't need any more Northeast megalomaniac lawyers in the White House.
Oops, forgot to also mention OH. Santorum is on the ballot in OH, but not eligible to receive delegates in 3 CD’s. It kind of sucks because 2 of the 3 CD’s run along the OH-PA where Santorum will probably have his best vote totals, and the other one runs along Lake Erie between Toledo and Cleveland.
Still Santorum is projected to win at least 9 CD’s for which he is eligible for delegates. Assuming a 2-1 split for not reaching over 50%, he’d get 18 delegates this way. He’s also projected to finish 2nd in 4CD’s to Romney where he’ll net at least 4 delegates. Then, 15 delegates are tied to the statewide vote. If he gets over 50% he wins them all, otherwise they’re proportional. Assuming he gets 40% of the statewide vote, that’s 6 more delegates for a total of at least 28 delegates. It increases if he gets more than 50% of the vote statewide.
Romney is leading in no more than 4 CD’s, For about 8 delegates, and 2nd in about 7 CD’s for 7 more. Assuming he gets 25% of the vote statewide, this nets him about 19 delegates.
I’m assuming in OH since they are voted on separately that the slate of delegates percentage is kept separate from the candidate percentage. What this means is that in the 3CD’s where Santorum is on the ballot, but has no slate of delegates, I’m assuming these voters vote for Newt’s slate of delegates, and that that will push Newt over 50% in those 3CD’s netting 9 delegates. I have Newt finishing 2nd to Santorum in about 5CD’s (not including the 3 just mentioned) for 5 more delegates. Newt is struggling in the statewide vote, however, he needs 15% to qualify for the allocation of the 15 delegates. If he fails to get to 15%, the remaining delegates go into Santorum’s column. Otherwise, if Newt does get 15%, he’ll net about 2 delegates. About 16 Delegates
Ron Paul has very little chance to win any delegates in OH. He’s not projected to finish 2nd anywhere in the CD’s and appears he will fall below the 15% threshhold.
So in OH, even with Santorum not having a slate of delegates in 3 CD’s, he is still in goog shpae.
I also hated the union mentality in PA but the land is beautiful and where I was the people were nice - and I actually found a few conservatives to talk to.
Good info - thanks. I also recall some issue years back with Santorum living in Virginia and claiming residence in PA. My memory is fuzzy but I’m thinking he had a tiny house in PA that would not have been big enough for his family and they had never actually lived in it. Do you recall anything about that?
“Southern Roots” Really?
How about telling me you’ll veto any bill that increases the Federal debt ceiling, hmm? That’s all I want to hear out of any politician’s mouth.
If “southern roots” are what people are going to vote on, then we deserve another 4 years of Obama.
Not to you.
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