Big Chance?
I thought he was the New Messiah at this point!
See yall in 5 days.
It is all about delegates. Around the corner, sometime.
Rom-A-Ney, has to vet Rick, then we're going
to Tampa.
Who did they poll? Unless they included a lot of democrats in that poll, it is meaningless. Illinois democrats can and will vote in huge numbers in the Illinois Republican primary.
You walk into the polling place and they have one question for you, "Republican or Democrat ballot"? Obama is unopposed in the rat primary. Rats will vote in the republican race.
You post article after article, written mostly by Romney supporters and the GOPe and you find it necessary to shout ....
Folks get your point, but they disagree, having both Newt and Rick in the race is the only realistic way to prevent Romney from getting the nomination.
Luckily Newt understands this and is not going anywhere.
Didn't we hear this about Ohio?
Santorum can't even pull delegates from all the places he might win in Illinois because of an ineptly disorganized ground campaign.
Predictably, the sainted Santorum's spit-squads will whine and complain like their golden calf.
No genuine conservative proposes and votes for a 61% half-billion dollar budget increase for Amtrak and runs a TV ad trumpeting the effort. No genuine conservative votes to confirm the woman Obama made his first choice for the Supreme Court. No conservative defends Arlen Specter against charges of liberalism, in TV ads, claiming "he's with us on the votes that matter." Votes like... ObamaCare, Rick?
The "see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil" non-vetting by Rick's rabble is every bit as bad as Obama's zombie hoards of Hope from '08.
Romney will will by over 6 points. No chance Santorum wins. Santorum would have to winn all the delegates of this state and several other big states to overcome the delegate gap. We’re stuck with Romney.
I don’t think Newt is polling out of the lower double digits in Illinois.
Santorum is the only one that could stop Mitt in Illinois.
There is no way in the world I will vote for Mitt, the democrat backed candidate! (RINO first class)
Anybody but “Romney” is my motto.
This race is “direct delegate election” which means it’s functionally the same as winner-take-all by district. Which means if you can win every district by just 1 vote, you can win all the delegates in the state. Newt had just 40% of the vote in South Carolina under district winner-take-all rules, but he won 92% of the delegates because he had the plurality in almost every district.
This is a state where vote-splitting between Newt and Rick could hand Romney the nomination. A direct delegate election or winner-take-all system means we’re following the Clinton/Bush/Perot model.
Romney probably cannot be stopped from hitting 1,144 in May/June unless he suffers a blowout loss in this state and several other winner-take-all-style states including Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Texas and California.