Posted on 02/08/2012 6:27:46 AM PST by Clintonfatigued
Rick Santorum won the Colorado GOP presidential preference straw poll, according to the Colorado Republican Party.
The victory means a trifecta tonight for the former Pennsylvania senator, who also won in Minnesota and Missouri.
It is a significant defeat for front-runner Mitt Romney, who took 60% of the vote in the Colorado’s 2008 nominating contest. John McCain, the eventual nominee, won just 18%.
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1. The Colorado caucuses are nonbinding. All that happened last night was a straw poll. Two years ago the delegate we sent to the county convention from my precinct ignored the straw poll and helped give us Dan Maes for Governor. Mr. 10%.
2. Fewer than 70,000 votes were cast out of approximately 1 million registered Republicans. This was special interest voting and does not represent what the electorate was thinking. The lack of turnout seems to say nobody is enthusiastic about the Final Four, which sure represents my thinking.
3. After last night, we don't have a candidate. Romney is slowly bleeding out, which sounds great. But all we have is Not Romney. We have Ricknewtpaul.
We are screwed. We just reelected Barry.
>> If Newt’s campaign has any smarts, and I think that’s up for discussion at this point <<
My limited experience working in large organizations has indicated that the underlings usually tend to reflect the operating style of the man at the top.
So one has to wonder if the campaign’s problems mostly reflect Newt’s general indiscipline and poor management skills — personal characteristics that former associates like Tom Coburn and Tom DeLay have mentioned prominently about Newt.
You bring up a good point, and one that is inherently the case. Now, from where I sit, every campaign is ultimately the responsibility of the candidate. If he/she hires and fires the wrong people and listens to the wrong people and ignores the right people - then the candidate still is ultimately still to blame or credit.
I think Newt makes a lot of his own decisions. I suspect he has yes people around him, and those yes people were not smart enough or strong enough to prevent Newt from hearing and seeing the negative ads run against him in Florida. They should have known that he would be personally insulted and would lose it. He was, and he did.
Good handlers would have kept him firing at Obama and the liberals - because that is what made Newt’s surge first in Iowa and then again in SC.
So Newt got bad advice, but chose to take it nonetheless. Blame all around .
Well well well.
And did you see the Rassmussen poll had that RS ahead of Obama by 1?
Is the universe teasing us?
no tease.
This is the real deal. The battle is on! The grassroots has woken up and is in real rebellion against the MITT “bandwagon”. I have seen it with my own eyes. I realize for people that are watching at home, that it might seem like it is not what we expected, but THE PEOPLE ARE WITH OUR PROGRAM! They get it, and they have awoken.
This is historic. Do not miss it when it comes soon to a state near you.
“no tease.
This is the real deal. The battle is on! The grassroots has woken up and is in real rebellion against the MITT “bandwagon”.
Very true! It’ll be a while until the next primary or caucus (not counting Maine’s caucus). The trick is to keep Rick Santorum in the spotlight so that he can raise his visibility and money, but without saturating the media and overstaying his welcome.
MAINE IS IN TOTAL REBELLION.
This is Mitt’s backyard & stronghold. And the grassroots is pounding away at him.
Both Romney, and Ron Paul, will attack Rick. I keep getting emails from Ron Paul attacking Rick Santorum.
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