Posted on 02/25/2012 8:57:05 PM PST by Steelfish
How Newt Gingrich Now Helps Mitt Romney Win The arithmetic of Super Tuesday delegate allocation means that Gingrich's presence splits off vital voters from Rick Santorum
Harry J Enten guardian.co.uk, Sunday 19 February 2012
A Romney campaign negative ad ahead of January's Florida primary; Gingrich's presence in the GOP race, bankrolled by Sheldon Adelson, now helps Romney against his main challenger, Rick Santorum.
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson has decided to donate an additional $10m to Newt Gingrich's Super Pac. The move is expected to boost Gingrich in the lead-up to the 6 March "Super Tuesday" primaries. Gingrich has taken a back seat to the Mitt Romney-Rick Santorum showdown in Michigan, and he needs ads on the air if there is any way of overcoming the press's new two-man race narrative.
But Sheldon Adelson has ulterior motives at work. He is not a fan of Rick Santorum, and he understands that boosting Gingrich has the side-effect of helping Mitt Romney.
(snip) Poll upon poll in the last week has indicated that Gingrich supporters are more likely to support Rick Santorum than Mitt Romney in a one-on-one match-up. Consider the state of Arizona, where polling finds Santorum rising, but Romney with a comfortable high single-digit lead. If Gingrich were to exit the race, however, Santorum would pull into a tie with Mitt Romney.
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This is stupid, even for you.
Since by inference you aren’t stupid, why don’t you read the article and try making an intelligent rebuttal.
Adelson has supported Gingrich from the start. Saying that he`s now supporting Gingrich to help Romney is stupid.
I strongly suggest you google ‘Santorum and Leo Gerard’.
Santorum is now in the crosshairs of the international labor unions, who are pulling out all the stops in Pennsylvania and other big labor union states to crush whatever support Rick Santorum has in those states.
By the way, this article you posted from a British rag is nonsense. The word is out that the Democrats are planting this garbage to sow divisions among Republicans.
The part about supporting Gingrich to help Romney is unsupported, but if you read the actual article regarding the likely delegate outcomes on Super Tuesday (with detailed analysis of each states voting rules) it’s clear that Gingrich’s main role in the race is to cripple Santorum and help Romney, if if that isn’t the intention.
Likely delegate outcomes according to polls. Too bad polls are just snapshots, and can`t be frozen in place. Nobody knows what will happen. I didn`t agree with Newt supporters that Rick should get out (at least I don`t remember calling for Rick to get out, I`ll have to check my history), and I don`t think it`s right to pressure Newt to get out.
We will see polls and editorials DAILY that proclaim Santorum or Gingrich can't beat OBozo, or that ONLY OBomney can beat OBozo.
Please, don't be disheartened by this lamestream BS...cause the OBozo will be beaten - IF he's allowed to run in the end.
Total and utter garbage.
Completely.
But rather than calling it “garbage” which is name-calling, why don’t you show where Strategerist is wrong. Indeed, his analysis is spot-on and fair if you examine the delegate rules for the Super Tuesday states. This is a 2-man race by all accounts except for the die-hard Gingrich fans. Gingrich has fallen of Romney’s radar as well as Obama and not even the left wing media are talking about him. Gingrich needs to save himself more humiliation and quit now.
After next Tuesday, the momentum will be with either Romney or Santorum, and even GA may go up in flames for Gingrich. Instead, as the article points out, he is helping Romney by staying in the race and Adelson is using Gingrich to derail Santorum because of his strong social conservative views that the $b Casino mogul abhors. Adelson is acting like a fifth columnist.
It is along haul until the convention. None of the four are going to quit.
As for “garbage”, that was a referral to a planted news piece the media is using as bait to distract Republicans from the real issue - voting Obama out of office and the issues with which he is weak.
You are more and more beginning to sound like a Democrat plant, trying to drive wedges between folks here at Free Republic.
Newt Gingrich scares the Hell out of the Democrats. And now, using their usual tricks, the Dems are going after Santorum, trying to demoralize conservatives. And you? You’re going along with their game.
There you go again “Democratic plant” when the same thing or worse could be said about you. If you cannot rebut with reason and intelligence then these threads are above your pay grade.
There’s nothing Romney wants more than to have a one-on-one race where he can focus all his negative attacks on one man and also be much more likely to get over 50% in conditional winner-take-all states and 50% of the delegates. If either Newt or Rick dropped out now, Romney’s intrade for the nomination would probably hit 99%.
Georgia is the biggest prize of Super Tuesday in terms of delegates, and Newt is #1 there. So do you agree Rick should drop out to help Newt do better there?
The guy is assuming that in GA, OK and TN that Romney will come in second. If Newt dropped out, that GUARANTEES Romney will. So how would it hurt Romney to guarantee he wins the extra delegates given to the second-place person?
Santorum is 9 delegates in the hole in Ohio due to his ballot screwups, so again he should drop out there since Newt is better positioned.
Vermont is conditional on 50% of the vote, which Romney is more likely to get with less opponents. So both staying in hurts Romney there.
Taxachusetts? Are you serious? Romney is going to win it in a landslide no matter who else is in the race. They won’t even compete there.
The major winner-take-all states happen AFTER March, so that’s when either Newt or Rick ought to drop out to avoid letting Romney win any of those with a mere plurality.
I prefer if Paul and Romney get out; then we can have a spirited discussion on the two remaining.
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