Posted on 01/21/2012 7:44:19 PM PST by RobinMasters
Newt Gingrich defeated Mitt Romney today to win today's South Carolina primary, boosted by a fiery debate performance this week that deflated the former governor's front-runner status overnight.
Rick Santorum will place third and Ron Paul will be fourth first-in-the-South contest.
Propelled by voters who were heavily influenced by the pre-primary debates, and a strong evangelical showing, Gingrich claimed a landslide victory, winning virtually every county in the Palmetto State save for a handful that went to Romney.
"It's not that I am a good debater," Gingrich said in his victory speech tonight, surrounded by his family and an enthusiastic crowd of supporters. "It's that I articulate the deepest-felt values of the American people."
Praising all three of his rivals, Gingrich, who made more than $3 million in 2010, per his tax return, repeatedly berated Washington and New York "elites."
In his concession speech, Romney congratulated the former House speaker but not without some underhanded jabs.
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Newts wife needs to soften her look.
SC endorsing Newt Gingrich. Take that Nikki Haley! :)
I am curious of the demographics of the two counties in SC Romney won. Are they “Mormon” and what is the average income. Do Mormons on average have more money than, say Evangelicals? I know the Mormon church is loaded but are its followers as well? I do think the fact that Newt has BALLS is the reason people are supporting him. After everybody pussyfooting around the media and Obama magnifying our country’s mistakes instead of its accomplishments, we’re all ready for somebody with grit. Not perfect, but Newt has my vote.
Agreed. I spoke to this earlier of course not welcomed. But the image is macho man and the little step ford woman. May go in the South. But never in the Northeast. I know for sure I xm from the South. Lived here 7 years now. In research and know demographics well.
I think I figured it out tonight. It’s not Callista’s nose that’s the problem. She need eyebrows! My first wife has a shnoz, but she has eyebrows so her face has features to draw the view away from the nose. [It helped that she also looked like Audrey Hepburn, too, but that’s grist for another mill.]
In Romney's speech tonight, claiming that Gingrich had attacked "free enterprise," he used the same blatantly dishonest sort of tactic Obama uses. Romney knows very well that Gingrich made no such attack on "free enterprise."
Or, if he truly believes that Gingrich's challenge to him to explain his job creation numbers at Bain constituted an attack on "free enterprise," then he demonstrates that he truly does not understand how to explain the Founders' concept of "freedom of individual enterprise," much less to defend it against Obama's staunch defense of the ideas of redistribution.
He might have done well, in defeat, to have focused on attempting to improve on what Krauthammer has identified as his weakness--and that is his lack of capability for explaining conservative ideas.
Gingrich, on the other hand, was gracious in his winning, complimentary to his competitors, though disagreeing with some of their ideas, and admitted that it was not that he is such a great debater as the pundits condescendingly claim, but that he simply articulates the ideas of liberty which citizens want to hear someone defend.
Romney confirmed by this unfair claim about what Gingrich actually had said that he cannot be trusted to be truthful, and that is exactly what Huckabee, McCain, and others in 2008 claimed about him.
That you Marrianne?... Does your therapist know you’re surfing the web to deposit little hate blobs?
Compared to that, Newt's 2012 win of 40% to Willard's 28% is positively authoritative.
Agreed. I spoke to this earlier of course not welcomed. But the image is macho man and the little step ford woman. May go in the South. But never in the Northeast. I know for sure I xm from the South. Lived here 7 years now. In research and know demographics well.
When Gingrich nonchalantly and completely unfazed answered the first question of the Wednesday nite CNN debate with “No. But I Will.” and then did, he won the debate, the SC Primary, and possibly, the Presidency right then and there.
That was one of the greatest moments not just in politics, but in the history of TV
The week before, he threw the “Race Card” back into the face of Juan Williams like Joe Pesci threw the cards back at the Black Jack Card Dealer in the movie “Casino” every time he was dealt a card that would bust him. (Anyone remember that scene?)
Hopefully, Gingrich doesn’t end up like Pesci did in that movie.
The NE isn’t going to go GOP anyways, and if Gingrich is the nominee, you can bet that Obama will want “Town Hall” style debates, stacked with “undecided” voters that later turn out to be Dem operatives.
But like Newt said, Obama can bring his Teleprompter and he’ll just bring his vast knowledge to the debates.
The Dems are probably meeting with Zero and Hillary right now, figuring out the best way to have Obama announce that “he wants to spend more time with his family” and that Hillary will be the nominee in 2012
0bama doesn’t have the stones to debate Newt on equal grounds. He will do everything he can to tilt the playing field to his advantage, despite claiming he wants to level the playing field for everyone else.
0bama and the MSM will lie, cheat, steal, lie, lie, lie, lie and lie some more and rig the debates and even after Newt shreds 0bama, guess who the MSM will proclaim the winner of the debates?
Remember, we have to beat 0bama and the MSM in this election, and they already have and a built in 86 EV advantage from CA and NY
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“I am curious of the demographics of the two counties in SC Romney won.”
The two counties in South Carolina that Romney won are Charleston and Beaufort, which consists largely of Charleston suburbs. Romney ran close to Gingrich in Berkeley and Dorchester Counties as well. These also border on Charleston. Gingrich swept the inland part of the state.
I stand corrected. Romney won a third county. That is Richland County, which contains the state Capitol of Columbia, and he ran close in the Columbia suburbs of Lexington County. I see a pattern, where Romney has no appeal to Republican voters outside urban and suburban areas.
Not only does Richland County contain the state Capitol, it also includes the state *capital* city of Columbia. : )
Romney only did well in “Yankeefied” areas such as Charleston, Hilton Head and Columbia.
“Romney only did well in “Yankeefied” areas such as Charleston, Hilton Head and Columbia.”
Well-stated. I might add that there are a number of such places in Florida, which will be ground zero once again. If Gingrich wins Florida, I don’t see how Romney recovers.
Columbia’s Richland has been moving away from the GOP rapidly over the past quarter-century, so it isn’t particularly important which candidate carried it for the nomination (though it is telling that Willard would win it). Once the GOP became competitive in the state in the modern era, Richland could be considered reliably GOP up until 1990 (when it voted handily for both Strom Thurmond and Carroll Campbell).
From 1992 onwards, it voted solidly Democrat from President to Governor and Senator. GHW Bush was the last to carry it for President in 1988 when he got 53%. Unusually, Jim DeMint actually carried Richland for Senator in 2010, but with a 44% plurality (Lindsay Graham got 45%, but lost, in 2008). It was because Alvin Greene received just 34% (probably almost exclusively from Black voters in the county), while it was clear White Democrats supported the Green Party candidate Tom Clements, who got over 18% (twice as high as his statewide %). In the same election, Nikki Haley performed worse than Alvin Greene in Richland, getting only 31%(!)
These are the numbers for the Presidential races since 1960, so you can follow the decline in GOP performance in the county:
McCain - 35% (lost) (’08)
GW Bush - 42% (lost) (’04)
GW Bush - 43% (lost) (’00)
Dole - 41% (lost) (’96)
GHW Bush - 41% (lost) (’92)
GHW Bush - 53% (won) (’88)
Reagan - 57% (won) (’84)
Reagan - 49.9% (won) (’80)
Ford - 47% (lost) (’76)
Nixon - 64% (won) (’72)
Nixon - 51% (won) (’68)
Goldwater - 60% (won) (’64)
Nixon - 64% (won) (’60)
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