Posted on 03/09/2012 6:25:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Fresh off his convincing Super Tuesday win in his home state of Georgia, presidential candidate Newt Gingrich might be about to score another comeback, with two new polls out Friday showing the former House speaker with slight leads in both Alabama and Mississippi.
A Rasmussen Reports poll of 750 likely Republican primary voters shows Gingrich ahead with 30 percent support, followed closely by Rick Santorum at 29 percent, and Mitt Romney with 28 percent.
Ron Paul got just 7 percent, while 6 percent were undecided.
In Mississippi, a poll by American Research Group Inc. finds Gingrich in the lead with 35 percent. Romney is in second place with 31 percent, while Santorum has 20 percent and Paul has 7 percent....
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Let the stupid Gingrich vs. Santorum bashing commence!
Romney will cruise to the nomination if Sanatorium and Gingrich supporters keep firing at each other.
I can’t believe how FReepers don’t seem to be AT ALL concerned about the giant elephant in the room! Folks, Rasmussen released a poll of likely voters today showing ROMNEY with an EIGHT point lead in MISSISSIPPI, for Christ’s sake! Yet everyone seems to be jumping for joy over how well Gingrich and Santorum are doing in the less reputable ARG poll, all the while ignoring the fact that Romney is only a mere TWO points out of first place in that very same poll! This greatly concerns me because Romney should have NO BUSINESS being this competitive in the deep southern states. This pains me to say it, but if Romney wins any of these states next Tuesday, then it’s game, set, match... He will be the inevitable Republican nominee.
Note: I wrote “Santorum”. Spell-check changed it.
Gingrich and Santorum need to stop tearing each other down.
Romney should have NO BUSINESS being this competitive in the deep southern states. This pains me to say it, but if Romney wins any of these states next Tuesday, then it’s game, set, match
Everytime Santorum opens his mouth about religion, birth control, JFK, and the rest of his rantings he puts more votes in Romneys box. Someone better shut him up and the best way to do that is not vote for him. Gingrich will take care of Romney.
I want to see Romney in last place, not second, and definitely not first.
If a Yankee from Massachusetts is competitive in the Deep South, something is wrong. My guess is the answer is that Romney has poured tons of money into bashing his opponents so voters think they're not conservatives, which has the effect of driving down their support rather than necessarily building up his own.
I support Santorum but as long as Romney loses in the South, having Gingrich win is fine with me. What worries me is that if we keep bashing each other as Gingrich and Santorum supporters, we're just doing Romney's work for him for free.
43 posted on Friday, March 09, 2012 10:51:20 PM by DestroyLiberalism: “I can’t believe how FReepers don’t seem to be AT ALL concerned about the giant elephant in the room! Folks, Rasmussen released a poll of likely voters today showing ROMNEY with an EIGHT point lead in MISSISSIPPI, for Christ’s sake! Yet everyone seems to be jumping for joy over how well Gingrich and Santorum are doing in the less reputable ARG poll, all the while ignoring the fact that Romney is only a mere TWO points out of first place in that very same poll! This greatly concerns me because Romney should have NO BUSINESS being this competitive in the deep southern states. This pains me to say it, but if Romney wins any of these states next Tuesday, then it’s game, set, match... He will be the inevitable Republican nominee.”
Many of those “wins” were straw polls that awarded him no delegates ..... plus, presidential elections are state-by-state, not county-by-county, but thanks for playing! Jay, tell him what he’s won as a consolation prize!
Thank you for the map, Lazlo. Is there a reason Alaska boroughs aren’t updated yet?
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Everytime Santorum opens his mouth about religion, birth control, JFK, and the rest of his rantings he puts more votes in Romneys box. Someone better shut him up and the best way to do that is not vote for him. Gingrich will take care of Romney.
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Do you have any evidence whatsoever that backs up your claim that Santorum supporters in Deep Southern states with a VERY high evangelical population are now switching their votes to Romney because they’re somehow turned off by Santorum’s conservative stance on social issues? PLEASE! I ain’t buying it.
Look, at this point I honestly don’t care whether Santorum or Gingrich wins Alabama, Mississippi, and Kansas. But I do think this petty back-and-forth in-fighting between the two camps are causing the votes to be split to the point where Romney may be on the verge of emerging as the default winner. And if this happens in any of the three states up for grabs next Tuesday, then we’re only going to have ourselves to blame when Romney ends up the inevitable Republican nominee.
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I support Santorum but as long as Romney loses in the South, having Gingrich win is fine with me. What worries me is that if we keep bashing each other as Gingrich and Santorum supporters, we’re just doing Romney’s work for him for free.
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AMEN to that!! I honestly cannot understand why it’s so damn hard for some here to get behind one conservative candidate WITHOUT having to constantly bashing another. If anyone doesn’t think this country would be INFINITELY better off with EITHER Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich as president of the United States, then quite frankly such folks don’t belong here on Free Republic!
Yeah. Because this will be the only Caucus win ever where the delegates won’t go to their candidate.
So Ricky is the new Hillary, is that what you’re saying?
Why yes, he's going to get Hillary's old black pants suit to go with his little sweater vest, LOL.
So Newt is the new Duncan Hunter? Everyone told me he was the inevitable choice to the others. Is there a point where you want to knock out the loser in this cycle? That being Milt. Last time we ended up with McLame. That was a disaster.
GO NEWT! WOOT! WOOT!
Mississippi and Alabama are two states that have shown in elections that they still fear God and believe in the America that our founders promised us. It does not surprise me that they are lining up behind our general to deliver us to a new golden era, rather than socialist Romney and RINO Rick.
Gingrich can do *nothing* but coronate Romney in Al. and Ms. by garnering vote totals that would have helped Santorum win both states. No offense, but unless Rick wins both states, he has no path to victory, and GOP voters elsewhere will decide to end the contest and give it to Romney. Thm’s the indisputable facts.
As I’ve said elsewhere, Gingrich is done, and if we want to see a liberal who will appoint judges closer to Kagan than Thomas, keep on pretending that he has a chance. Bob
You seem very misinformed.
[People who need a job do not relate to moonbases and other federal boondoggles.]
A moonbase as a goal is not about having a moonbase. It is about a goal that enthuses people about math and science again. Do you have any idea how many technologies we take for granted today originated in the first moon program ? And Newt did not even propose NASA be funded to do open-ended research, but just dangling carrots out in the form of X-prizes for winners of competitions that meet the requirement for each stage. A $100M prize can spur billions of dollars of research by private companies.
[Now, if he called for replacing the entire welfare bureaucracy with a single streamlined agency ...
If he did that, he would literally be able to walk into the White House.]
Funny, Newt has spoken often of consolidating the 70+ federal welfare programs into a single program, and eliminating the double-dipping. He rightly takes credit for the first welfare reform, but plans a second more radical reform that collapses all the various programs into one.
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