Posted on 01/29/2008 1:43:23 PM PST by icwhatudo
Did not see it posted yet, here we go folks!
My 7 y/o daughter saw the Drudge headline and commented, “That Huckabee guy’s a big loser, isn’t he?” LOL. :-)
Nothing from Miami-Dade would surprise me, but I would expect also that Mr. Giuliani will get a decent bump up from the 14% territory when we see Miami-Date numbers --- more's the pity, I would have liked to seen him with less than 12% overall.
The mix of districts they are faster with apparently favor McCain on balance.
34 -32 McCain with 33% in , CNN
This is not Super Tuesday. Hold that thought.
ROMNEY 34.1%
MCCAIN 33.5%
GIULIANI 14.4%
HUCKABEE 13.0%
Drudge, 830pm eastern
Just checked it Romney with 34% and McCain with 33.5%
http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/2008PPP/20080129_REP_SUM_PRE.html
ROMNEY 34.1% +4K
MCCAIN 33.5%
Below is a posting from Sage McLaughlin at Lawrence Auster’s website. It makes a lot of sense regarding why conservatives should now rally around Romney:
****I think I’ve identified out one of the really key intangibles that sets Romney apart from McCain, Obama, and Hillary. Of those four front-runners, he is the only one that does not have some score to settle, some personal grudge against conservative America. Hillary and McCain both have personal and political scores to settle, wrongs which they passionately wish to set right and which animate their desire to wield power over their enemies. Obama, of course, represents nothing less than a burning desire on the part of black America (and liberal America more broadly) to set white America straight. Even McCain believes the country owes him something, as his increasingly unseemly use of his military record reveals. The egomaniacal Senator from Arizona harbors tremendous bitterness over every political setback—or even criticism—he suffers, and will revenge himself on anyone he thinks has hindered his ascent.
Only Romney does not obviously hate the conservative American electorate, only he does not believe the Presidency is his by right, and only he does not have some personal or historic gripe against his country. For this reason among many others, only he is not an obvious enemy of the historic American society I love. Thus at this time only he qualifies for even passing consideration to receive my vote in November.****
It looked to me like fox was 10,000 or so short on mitt....seems the state site would be more right, don’t know though.
Sometimes the precinct count is known at the precinct immediately. A news stringer gets it and calls it in. The election offials have to wrap it up neatly, send or drive or call it to the country, which loads it into its total and then uploads to the state. That’s why usually the media will be ahead of the official site. At the end of the night, it works the otehr weay — the news media can’t sweep up the final dregs as well as the official site.
What will happen to Giuliani’s delegates, if he gets any?
Its never even been close all night. There has been a huge discrepancy between what the media has been reporting and what is on the state site. Never, for example, did the State site show Romney behind by 20K like CNN did. Somethings fishy.
I don’t know- but I think CNN is using exit polls for Miami Dade- because- when I checked CNN’S details- it showed 0 % reporting- but still gave the numbers...
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