Posted on 01/24/2008 10:50:27 AM PST by chaos_5
On the eve of a Republican Presidential Debate in Boca Raton, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 36% of Florida’s Republican Primary Voters could still change their mind before voting. That figure includes 4% who haven’t yet settled on a candidate and 9% who say there’s a good chance they could change their mind.
That’s more than enough uncommitted voters to determine what has become a very close race and it certainly raises the stakes in tonight’s debate.
The Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds Mitt Romney with 27% of the vote, John McCain with 23%, and Rudy Giuliani picking up support from 20%. Nineteen percent (19%) of those surveyed have already cast their ballots.
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Come on Rudy. You need to get past McQueeg.
Better yet, Rudy could stand still and McCain could slip below him.
I voted a while ago. Early voting has been going on in FL for a while, and the older folks, whose time is more flexible, have been voting on their trips to the library and such.
As a result, I think that the polls on Tuesday may have less effect than they do in other elections.
Everybody I know that is going to vote, voted over a week ago.
Who are they voting for?
I voted for Fred in early voting- and don’t regret it a bit. If Fred were not on the ballot and I were voting today- I’d go Rudy or Mitt as I’m firmly in the Anyone But McCain/Huckabee camp.
Yep- and only registered Republicans can vote in the Republican primary here! :)
If the 50% delegate cut holds up (GOP penalty for FL moving up the primary to Jan 29), then yes, it is a winner-take-all primary with 57 delgates. If, for some odd reason, the full 114 FL delegate count gets reinstated, then the delegates are appropriated by tally.
It makes no sense to vote against a candidate who has the right position on all the issues, and then say you would support a guy who takes the WRONG position on half of our issues.
Global Warming, CLosing Guantanamo, Amnesty, Free Speech, Appropriate interrogation techniques, civil rights for terrorists, filibusters of judicial nominees, federal funding for killing embryos.
That is the official platform of John McCain. No “I don’t trust him” — that’s what he has promised for us. That and “ending the partisan gridlock”, with his best friend Joe Leiberman, who is a major advisor to his campaign and has an ACU rating of 8 or something.
McCain has no claim anymore on being conservative. He had a record in the past, but he has abandoned it.
I think if they get them back, half are done winner-take-all by congressional district, the other half to the statewide winner.
But I also understand that the GOP leadership can pretty much decide to do whatever they want, so theoretically they could do proportional if Rudy loses, just so he gets some delegates. I wouldn’t expect it, but the switch to winner-take-all was supposed to be to help him.
I predict that you and all the other Middens will one day rue your decision to shill for Flip so shamelessly, whether he gets elected somehow or, as I predict, he gives us a 10%+ margin of defeat in the general and a Democrat sweep in Congress.
Antoninus, I challenge you to take a look at Rudy's proposal for tax reform, his stance of cutting back on the size of government, his position on education reform (more parental choice), his position on national security and continuing war on terror, his position on finding private sector solutions to health care reform, and his philosophy on judicial appointments, and tell me where Rudy is a "lib hiding in the underbrush."
I know this is a popular screed in the echochamber that FR has become, but it defies the reality of the situation, and doesn't speak well of the intelligence of anyone who repeats this mantra.
I might. However, since I have yet to actually beg for anybody to SWITCH their vote, and my efforts have been to correct misinformation, disinformation, lies and distortions, I will sleep well knowing that it’s never right to win by false premises.
I would have been happy if Thompson won our nomination, in no small part because I wouldn’t get blamed if he crashed and burned. :-) Obviously I’m being a bit faceteous there.
If he loses in Florida it shows that he doesn't have the Republican grass root support and his momentum is stopped cold.
I hope the mod pushes him to talk about global warming, that should go over real nice with the conservative base.
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