Posted on 12/30/2011 7:50:10 AM PST by TBBT
Five polls of Iowa this week all show the same thing, Mitt Romney is either in first place, or gaining steam. The NBC News, Rasmussen Reports, Insider Advantage, and CNN polls all have Romney either in first or tied for first. The one poll that does not have Romney winning, the Public Policy Polling survey, shows Romney up 4 points from just two weeks ago.
And on the ground, ABC News is reporting the same trend:
Romney has been drawing crowds numbering in the hundreds wherever he goes.
They spilled out of a hotel ballroom in Davenport, Iowa on Tuesday night to hear his closing argument speech, they lined up at a coffee shop in Muscatine before the sun rose Wednesday morning to throw a couple questions his way and so many people — about 450 in all — showed up to a lunchtime meet-and-greet at a Clinton, Iowa deli yesterday that the campaign decided to stage an impromptu event with Romney at another restaurant across the street to accommodate the overflow. … Though political campaigns are notoriously expert at filling venues to create the appearance of a well-attended event, the growing fervor for Romney among the Iowans who are showing up to see him this week is palpable.
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You know, I was all set to disagree with you, but your expert use of capitalization has convinced me otherwise.
With that many capital letters, you must be right.
But . . . but that's different.
You're giving Clinton way too much credit. Newt was speaker of the House and pushed Clinton to compromise. Do you really think a balanced budget and welfare reform would have occurred without Newt? Is there really anybody else that could have pressured Clinton like that? I doubt it.
A balanced budget did not occur either with or without Newt. Our national debt has increased each and every year since 1969. It was a lie when Clinton took credit for a budget surplus. Why isn’t it a lie when Gingrich does the same thing?
Begins?! Remember Nixon, Rockefeller, GHW Bush, Dole, Dubya, McCain?
I vote 3rd party if that’s my choice. Bushes, Dole, McStain.....no more. Won’t hold my nose and vote again.
Hank
Never, ever, under any circumstance, would I vote for Mitt Romney.
“A balanced budget did not occur either with or without Newt. Our national debt has increased each and every year since 1969. It was a lie when Clinton took credit for a budget surplus. Why isn’t it a lie when Gingrich does the same thing?”
There were actually a few years in the late 90s when we ran a surplus for the year, but it’s true that we didn’t make a huge dent in the overall federal debt during that time. The point, however, is that if Newt was not speaker, we would not have reduced (or not increased) spending to the point where we actually had annual surpluses. Just look at the retards we have running the House GOP today, they don’t have to stomach to trim the budget even a couple billion dollars, let alone tackle our $1.5 trillion annual deficit. And welfare reform-this is another thing he deserves credit for, he put it on Clinton’s desk 3 times and Clinton finally signed it.
Newt’s not my candidate, I’m going with Perry. But you need to give credit where it’s due. Newt’s record as Speaker is pretty damn good considering he was fighting a Dem POTUS the whole time. I will definitely take that record over RINO Romney and his “progressive” governing style in Mass any day.
Except to Huntsman who was the true conservative with widespread moderate support AND had the best chance of beating Obama. Exactly what Republicans tell you that they had been looking for all these years. Unfortunately, they didn’t seem to want to find it in 2012. lol
I just don’t think Gingrich is anywhere as strong as you think he is. I prefer the other Pennsylvanian, Santorum!
You are so right, and that's why we need Santorum as the non-Romney. No one else is feasible, and he is the longest of longshots.
Rockefeller was never a presidential nominee, but his ideas were stolen by other bigwigs in the party. At the end of his own career, Goldwater had also gone soft on Rockefeller.
You forgot Eisenhower and Ford too.
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