...and Rush is helping
Posted on 01/12/2012 7:12:19 AM PST by TBBT
Despite a historic sweep of the first two nominating contests in the GOP field, Mitt Romney holds just a two percentage point lead in South Carolina, his smallest lead of 2012.
Romney is the favorite of 23 percent of South Carolina voters, narrowly edging Newt Gingrich's 21 percent, according to the latest poll from Insider Advantage. Rick Santorum pulls 14 percent of Palmetto state voters, while Ron Paul rounds out the top four with 13 percent. Jon Huntsman's seven percent and Rick Perry's five percent trail the pack.
The numbers could indicate that Gingrich's aggressive strategy - which has included controversial attacks on Mitt Romney's business and abortion records - is gaining him traction by hurting the GOP frontrunner.
In the three other major South Carolina polls completed in the new year, Romney was earning 37 percent, 27 percent, and 30 percent, according to Real Clear Politics - meaning his 23 percent in the latest poll marks a precipitous decline.
Gingrich, meanwhile, has maintained a steady band of support between 18 and 23 percent.
The poll may also signal the beginning of the end of the Santorum boomlet, who has fallen 10 percentage points from a Rasmussen poll released just after his near-win in the Iowa caucuses. That too could help Gingrich, who hopes conservatives in South Carolina will rally around his campaign as an alternative to Romney.
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Newt is expected to do well here for the same reason that Mitt was expected to do well in New Hampshire: nearly home turf.
Santorum can still survive to fight in Florida with a respectable third place finish.
Guess what I just saw? Martha McCallum on America’s News HQ had Jim Talent with the Romney campaign on and they are making an ad to counterattack on the Bain ad by Newt. Well...remember when Newt sent out legal notice to all news media not to run the ad in which it says he was fined by the ethics committee because it is false and there will be legal ramifications? Well, Fox showed the whole ad at 10:30am just prior to Talent coming on and it said “Web ad” at the top of it. Isn’t that underhanded!! I just sent an email to Newt. Martha said “That was the old ad. They are coming out with a new one.”
Great news for the morning. Newt is going to do it.
GO NEWT GO.......
...and Rush is helping
Always have been. Their shenanigans with cross voters, dead voters, vote buying, bussing in voters, coupled with the "gotta be first" bs have relegated them to "who gives a shiite" status.
The media pupmps it up because they have copy to sell, and commercial time to sell.
But, in the end, they mean absolutely nothing regards a general national election.
Dont want Romney?
Want someone that fights?
Here you go.
I think SC has an OPEN PRIMARY which means democrats (dead and alive) and independents can vote.
So the Paul and Romney votes will pile on.To spoil any conservative from winning.
The vast majority of SC democrats are black. They won’t crossover and vote. The few white libs that do crossover will vote for Paul. This isn’t Iowa or New Hampshire. I don’t think the number of democrats voting will have a significant impact, other than boosting Ron Paul a few percentage points.
I do NOT want Romney or Obama but could someone tell me why Gingrich called Ryan’s plan right wing and why he now endorses it?And is there anywhere in his contract with America that reigns in the senate and congress and cuts they’re pay?I don’t want a flame war.I realize it is all getting desperate.But I would like to know these things before I can support him.
http://www.newt.org/sites/newt.org/files/contract/21st_Century_Contract_Legislative_Proposals.pdf
About all I know is that congressional salaries are not high enough to make them rich. They get rich because of inside deals and crony capitalism. However I believe their insurance and retirement are spectacular.
Like other things Perry has said and was trounced for by the media, his denouncement of the Bain Capital claims by Romney will be vindicated.
IMHO, SC is the big test. Iowa was a close contest, and NH is next door to Massachusetts. How Romney does in South Carolina will mean more than either of the two previous races.
If he loses, or ekes out a plurality in a three-way horserace between Newt and Santorum, then I think the race is still very much open and there’s no real momentum for
Romney. In fact, if he loses by a large margin, it may start unraveling his campaign a bit.
OTOH, if Mitt Romney wins by a comfortable margin (8+ points or thereabouts) in SC, then I think it will mean there is something to the notion that some voters are seeing an inevitability to Romney as nominee, and will translate into momentum heading into Florida.
We’ll see, though.
Agreed. Cantor was supposed to pass a bill after the holidays (which would be now...)to end insider trading within.So with more tea party conservatives in there there is hope we can clean it all up.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/45612773/Why_Is_Eric_Cantor_Blocking_the_Congressional_Insider_Trading_Act
Absolutely. It’s disgusting that they get rich while giving America the shaft.
Romney is not going to win in SC. If his campaign was the Axis powers in WWII, New Hampshire was his 1941. It’s all strategic retreat from here.
It’s now or never for me and Palin.
She needs to use some political clout and endorse Gingrich prior to the South Carolina Primary.
This is too important to merely sit on the sidelines.
Political clout = Use it or lose it.
You are right. PPP’s numbers for Romney in Iowa and NH were much lower than the real outcome. Just sayin’.
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