Posted on 01/14/2012 3:50:40 PM PST by Bigtigermike
(Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has opened a wide lead over his rivals in the South Carolina primary election race, trouncing Newt Gingrich and gaining momentum in his march toward the party's nomination, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, could all but quash his rivals' presidential aspirations with a victory in South Carolina on January 21 after winning the first state-by-state nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Voters in South Carolina - who have favored Republicans in nine of the last 10 presidential elections - appear to have shrugged off attacks on Romney by rivals who accuse him of killing jobs as a private equity executive for Bain Capital in the 1990s.
The poll showed 37 percent of South Carolina Republican voters back Romney. Congressman Ron Paul and former Senator Rick Santorum tied for second place with 16 percent support.
Gingrich, a former speaker of the House of Representatives, has fallen far back after holding a strong lead in South Carolina in December. He was in fourth place at 12 percent in the Reuters/Ipsos poll.
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If Romney is the nominee I will vote for all other offices on the ballot and leave president blank, I am not voting for another RINO for president - period.
“All the ground troops know that but the movers and shakers are oblivious.”
I disagree that the nomenklatura are oblivious. For them, a Romney versus Obama race is win/win. Deep trough, big government, small liberty statists win either way.
Your candidate won a caucus, which incidentally, hasn't picked the eventual winner of the Republican primary in a very, very long time.
I'd tell you not to get your hopes up, but your balloon is already untethered.
What ‘elections’ does Romney keep winning?
And congressmen don’t win the presidency.
Gosh this is a fun game. :)
I will not under ANY circumstances vote for Romney.
Some say, “If Romney is the nominee, I’ll hold my nose and pull the lever.....” I will NOT, period.
That is exactly what Romney, the Republican elite AND OBAMA are counting on. They can ALL KMA.
The Republican elite, MSM, including Fox news, are ruining this country every bit as much as Obama and the dems. This corrupt gang needs to be stopped dead in it’s tracks.
I WILL NOT reward them with my vote. My character will not allow me to vote for that lying POS baby killing RINO, Romney.
I want a strong leader, with a proven record of accomplishments and a clear vision for our future. I am not looking for a Reverend, Priest or Rabi or some weirdo mormon. I want a president that will turn this country around intelligently and quickly.
I will continue to support the one man that I believe in my heart and head can turn this country around and set the course for my children and grandchildren to have a better future........ that man is Newt Gingrich.
GO NEWT GO.........
Well, that would be Romney, although the vote counts were in dispute.
Did Santorum get more votes when the smoke cleared? If he did, the MSM and the RINOS have some humble pie to eat.
You're delirious. Here's Santorum's "conservative" record:
What A Big Government Conservative Looks Like
NEA
Voted for taxpayer funding of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Voted against a 10% cut in the budget for National Endowment for the Arts.
Bankruptcy
Voted for a Schumer amendment to make the debts of pro-life demonstrators not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
Defense and Foreign Policy
Voted for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
Voted against requiring the President to certify that the CWC is effectively verifiable.
Voted against requiring the President to certify that that Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea, China, and all other countries determined to be state sponsors of terror have joined CWC prior to submitting the instrument of ratification.
Voted for the START II Treaty.
Voted to allow the sale of supercomputers to China.
Voted to ban anti-personnel landmines.
Voted against increasing defense spending offset by equivalent cuts in non-defense spending.
Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same pay raises as uniformed military.
Voted to allow food and medicine sales to state sponsors of terror and tyrannical regimes such as Libya and Cuba.
Voted to limit the President’s authority to impose sanctions on nations for reasons of national security unless the sanctions were approved by a multilateral regime.
Voted against requiring Congressional authorization for military action in Bosnia.
Voted to give $25 million in foreign aid to North Korea.
Voted to weaken alien terrorist deportation provisions. If the Court determines that the evidence must be withheld for national security reasons, the Justice Department must still provide a summary of the evidence sufficient for the alien terrorist to mount a defense against deportation.
Voted against delaying the India Nuclear until the President certified that India had agreed to suspend military-to-military exchanges with Iran.
Voted against the Conventional Trident Missile Program.
Nominations
Voted for Richard Paez to the 9th Curcuit (cloture).
Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge.
Voted for Richard Holbrooke to be Ambassador to the UN.
Voted for Margaret Morrow to be District Judge.
Voted twice for Marsha Berzon to the 9thg Circuit.
Voted for Mary McLaughlin to be District Judge.
Voted for Tim Dyk to be District Judge.
Voted for James Brady to be District Judge.
Labor
Voted against National Right to Work Act.
Voted against repeal of Davis-Bacon Prevailing union wages.
Voted for Alexis Herman to be Secretary of Labor.
Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding.
Voted for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Voted for Job Corps funding.
Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization.
Voted against allowing a waiver of Davis-Bacon in emergency situations.
Voted for minimum wage increases six times here here here here here and here.
Voted to require a union representative on an IRS oversight board.
Voted to exempt IRS union representatives from criminal ethics laws.
Voted against creating independent Board of Governors to investigate IRS abuses.
Guns
Voted to require pawn shops to do background checks on people who pawn a gun.
Voted twice to make it illegal to sell a gun without a secure storage or safety device.
Voted for a Federal ban on possession of “assault weapons” by those under 18.
Voted for Federal funding for anti-gun education programs in schools.
Voted for anti-gun juvenile justice bill.
Reform
Voted for funding for the legal services corporation.
Voted twice for a Congressional pay raise.
Voted to impose a uniform Federal mandate on states to force them to allow convicted rapists, arsonists, drug kingpins, and all other ex-convicts to vote in Federal elections.
Voted for the Specter “backup plan” to allow campaign finance reform to survive if portions of the bill were found unconstitutional.
Voted to mandate discounted broadcast times for politicians.
Voted for a McCain amendment to require state and local campaign committees to report all campaign contributions to the FEC and to require all campaign contributions to be reported to the FEC within 24 hours within 90 days of an election.
Immigration
Voted against increasing the number of immigration investigators.
Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens.
Voted to give SSI benefits to legal aliens.
Voted to give welfare benefits to naturalized citizens without regard to the earnings of their sponsors.
Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border partrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants.
Taxes
Voted against a flat tax.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for Medicare prescription drugs.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to fund health insurance subsidies for small businesses.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an $8 billion increase in child healh insurance.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an increase in NIH funding.
Voted twice for internet taxes.
Voted to allow gas tax revenues to be used to subsidize Amtrak.
Voted to strike marriage penalty tax relief and instead provide fines on tobacco companies.
Voted against repealing the Clinton 4.3 cent gas tax increase.
Voted to increase taxes by $2.3 billion to pay for an Amtrak trust fund.
Voted to allow welfare to a minor who had a child out of wedlock and who resided with an adult who was on welfare within the previous two years.
Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans.
Voted to say that AMT patch is more important than capital gains and dividend relief.
Welfare
Voted against food stamp reform.
Voted against Medicaid reform.
Voted against TANF reform.
Voted to increase the Social Services Block Grant from $1 billion to $2 billion.
Voted to increase the FHA loan from $170,000 to $197,000. Also opposed increasing GNMA guaranty from 6 basis points to 12.
Voted for $2 billion for low income heating assistance.
Waste
Sponsored an amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million.
Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art Museum (NE), the Stand Up for Animals project (RI) and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Project (WA).
Voted to increase spending on social programs by $7 billion.
Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion.
Voted to increase NIHnding by $700 million.
Voted to for a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (AL).
Voted for a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry.
Voted against requiring that highway earmarks would come out of a state’s highway allocation.
Voted to allow Market Access Program funds to go to foreign companies.
Voted to allow OPIC to increase its administrative costs by 50%.
Voted against transferring $20 million from AmeriCorps to veterans.
Voted for the $140 billion asbestos compensation bill.
Voted against requiring a uniform medical criteria to ensure asbestos claims were legitimate.
Voted to increase community development programs by $2 billion.
Spending and Entitlements
Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies a new entitlement.
Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years.
Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF.
Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
Health Care
Voted to allow states to impose health care mandates that are stricter than proposed new Federal mandates, but not weaker.
Voted twice for Federal mental health parity mandates in health insurance.
Voted against allowing consumers the option to purchase a plan outside the parity mandate.
Education
Voted to increase Federal funding for teacher testing.
Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion.
Voted against requiring courts to consider the impact of IDEA awards on a local school district.
Energy
Voted to allow the President to designate certain sites as interim nuclear waste storage sites in the event that he determines that Yucca Mountain is not a suitable site for a permanent waste repository. Those sites are as follows: the nuclear waste site in Hanford, Washington; the Savannah River Site in South Carolina; Barnwell County, South Carolina; and the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.
Voted to make fuel price gouging a Federal crime.
They still haven’t released a ‘certified count’. NH put theirs out awhile ago.
Which, speaks volumes. If the count had a Romney win, it would have been released like a week ago.
Dear Friends,
With the election very near I wanted to make a point about media coverage (including and especially Fox).
If you glance at this article is says Romney is 21 points ahead. That is very deceptive. Most people don't read the full article. This is a Republican primary, and knowing that full well, Reuters chose to use an poll that included 398 republicans and 380 democrats. Democrats can't vote in South Carolina Republican primaries. PLUS, this is an online poll. That means anyone, including democrats could go online and vote as many times as the poll is open.
I tell you this so you don't believe everything you see, read or hear. Even Fox News and much of what people normally consider conservative talk radio hosts are playing favorites. Why did Fox put this on there webpage? They, along with other media outlets, have Bain Capital/Clear Channel as their employers. See article below. Mitt Romney was on of the founding partners for Bain Capital and still has stake in the business.
I am praying that God gives us a man of integrity, who is conservative especially socially, but also economically, and if possible a believer. It's so easy to glance at a headline and believe it, make sure its true.
Blessings to you all.
I included the full article below for them.
Clear Channel Communications, Inc. Completes Merger with Private Investor Group
SAN ANTONIO, TX – July 30, 2008 - Clear Channel Communications, Inc. today announced the completion of a merger with an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of CC Media Holdings, Inc., a corporation formed by a private equity group co-led by Bain Capital Partners, LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. The total transaction is valued at approximately $24 billion.
EXACTLY! There was a poll yesterday that had it a dead heat.
“You’re delirious.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaZFfQKWX54&feature=player_detailpage
TOGETHER WE CAN SOLVE IT. :D
The Fix is in—Mittens will win, Florida and North Carolina will finish the race. To make things sure of an Obama victory—Ron Paul will run on a 3rd Party ticket and be in the debates. SO lets toss a monkey wrench into the play-—Dirty Tricks to educate the voters.
Posters could be made and distributed: “ Obama For King!”
or “Hillary got Screwed—First Bill then Barry” or “Don’t want to vote for a Mormon? Then vote for a Muslim!” or “Michele for Queen-Empress—” “let em eat cake!”
An underground newspaper could be made—”Telling the truth about all sorts of things—Printed and just left places—a few at a time—make em cute and Telling of all the corruption—lies—etc.. Call it The Torch of Freedom.
Make a drawn cartoon with Obama as a monkey—in the white house (his ears are the give away) living in the white house and he thinks hes really ruling but others are doing it. All the Dems are animals (Mitt a Rino?) It could be called Evil Monkey—make it funny—to counter all the Left wing comedy talk—on the late night shows. Once again it would be distributed —or posted (maybe in the torch?)
Demonstrations could be done with groups—fictitious ones—Like Metrosexuals for Obama. Or KKK for Obama! They could write letter of support for Obama —Why would the KKK support Obama? Look what he’s doing to the Black community! Even they were powerless to cause this much destruction.
I am sure we can use the tools of the left to undermine the Progressive-Communist party and their goals. Knowing their plans gives us an edge.
Damn, Windflier. Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat.
I think you got him.
FOX gets their material from the headlines on FR. They assume we vet the material. This time they didn’t read far enough down in the thread. ;~)
Me too!
I’m sorry to say that Newt couldn’t beat Obama in a million years . Your average voter is a moron , basically . More concerned about American Idol , Dancing With The Stars and who won Sunday’s football game than anything else . People who are disenchanted with Obama might vote for a relatively good looking , Presidential looking Romney , but never for a pasty , old , fat , beltway bandit like Gingrich . Just telling you how I see it . Not a Romney fan , just being realistic .
They have a narrative to push. Never mind the polls that show Newt gaining on Mitt, they are going to push these online polls that mean nothing.
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