Go Duncan Hunter!!!!
Prediction ... Romney the RINO will squeak out a victory in this Battle of RINOs
Romney will go on to win on Super Tuesday ... and then start shifting his rhetoric back to his record (very liberal).
We'll watch and see if the leftist media can give Florida to McAmnesty!
With 35 minutes to go in the Eastern Time Zone, will a newtowk blow thei rule and predict while the polls are still opne in the panhandle?
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Advertisment The first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Connecticut’s Democratic Presidential Primary shows the race couldn’t possibly get any closer. New York Senator Hillary Clinton attracts 40% of the vote and so does Illinois Senator Barack Obama. John Edwards is a very distant third at 11% while 3% say they’d vote for some other candidate and 6% are not sure.
I voted for Romney this morning in Orlando. He wasn’t my first choice, but I voted for him as I think he has the best chance to beat McCain.
I spent the past weekend up in the panhandle (near Eglin AFB) visiting my family. Most people I came in contact with were against McCain even though they were for the most part retired military (including my dad’s best friend who is a retired General).
I was dismayed at work today to find that a friend of mine went to see McCain speak here in Orlando this weekend and was impressed enough to talk several other friends into voting for him this morning. I’m really bummed because if I had been at work yesterday, I think that I could have talked them out of it. They were all going to vote for Romney. My friend just happened to be eating dinner at a restaurant close to where McCain was speaking and stopped to listen to him. Dang it!
A couple of other observations from my trip to the panhandle this weekend. Most of the people I spoke to had voted absentee for Guiliani. They said that if they had waited, they would have voted for Romney instead to keep McCain out. They didn’t realize how close it was going to be when they voted.
My friend who saw McCain in person this weekend said that he looks awful...even whiter and more sickly than he does on TV. Unfortunately, that didn’t stop her from voting for him though.
The hour early time zone difference worries me about the Panhandle as my dad says that a lot of people up there tend to listen to the exit polls and don’t vote after work when the media start calling it too soon (as they always do).
EXITS: McCain 34.3%, Romney 32.6%, Giuliani 15.3%, Huckabee 12%...
GO MITT, or GO HOME!
I sure hope Guilliani get sent home. Don’t know how I feel about independents voting in an R primary.
Sounds like a McCain win to me. The anchors and reporters are all gleeful and trying to contain themselves, discussing why McCain wins IF he wins here. And though they’re not saying, they already know. Ergo, it’s McCain.
Got my vote in.
I bunted instead of hitting a sac fly to either first base or second base.
If McCain had acted differently with the amnesty bill and the judge appointments, I could have supported him. But defying core base principles has consequences, and he needs to see that. The fact that all the states newspapers picked him re-inforced my stance not to pick him.
Romney I simply know very little about. He presents himself well, but where does he stand after words are said? For all the money he spent here, I didn’t see any phone calls/emails. Massachussets politics isn’t my cup of tea either, even if he navigated it as a Republican.
Breaking news: The AP is reporting that due to the record/ near record number absentee ballots in the Florida Primary, both parties(although the DNC in November stripped the state of its delegates when it opted to hold its primary before February 5) have sent their advance legal teams to for possible election legal action should the results be considered too close to call under state law.
“This would be a mini deja vu of 2000” said a GOP insider who asked that their name be withheld.....
Just saw on Hugh Hewitt’s site:
McCain is ahead in exit polls by 1.7%. BUT...Romney ahead in absentee ballots by 6%.
CNN actual count
McCain 29%
Romney 28%
Giuliani 15%
8 precincts reporting
Mitt 30.84%
McCain 28.07%
0.02% Precincts Reporting
nerves are becoming shot here...lol