You only laugh if you mischaracterize what JediJones was pointing out.
He never said Newt would get 11 percent. He said exit polling showed Newt’s performance was improving as voting day came, and that very late deciders were going for Newt
Compare that to Newt’s registering only 3 percent in earlier polls, then you see that what JJ referenced is exactly what happened.
Everyone knows his vote percentage in MI was low. That wasn’t the point.
The same thing happened in AZ according to exit polls there. Late deciders upped Newt’s totals from what he had been polling earlier.
That’s a possible trend that could help in states where Newt actually has a chance and plans to focus his campaign.
Are you capable of getting this? It’s real simple.
Or do you get it, but feel you must pretend not to, in order to attack the messenger and message, which is pro Newt...
That’s true. Newt’s calculation, and we’ll see in next week whether it works or not, is that he would build momentum going into good states for him while Santorum would lose momentum - going into good states for Newt - and Newt would pass him as the alternative to Mitt again for Super Tuesday.
Newt had a hunch Santorum was sinking late in Michigan and that’s what he meant when he said the “race would clarify” after Michigan.
Now, will that theory work well enough? I don’t know. But it certainly looks like Santorum’s momentum is downward at this point and with Newt’s focus on energy, his should be upward.
There were no attacks in that post. The proof is in the pudding.
The final tally is what it is.
6.5 is close to what was projected for Newt from the start in Michigan.
Wheres the beef? Better yet, where’s the surge?
Newt had a great debate before these primaries, but it didn’t change much.