Posted on 02/08/2012 4:57:30 PM PST by Kaslin
A funny thing happened to Mitt Romney on the way to his coronation as the inevitable Republican candidate for president of the United States. Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado happened.
Rick Santorum beat him in all three states on the same day — and beat him by huge margins in two of those states, as well as upsetting him in Colorado, where the Mormon vote was expected to give Romney a victory.
The Republican establishment, which has lined up heavily behind Romney, has tried to depict him as the "electable," if not invincible, candidate this November.
But it is hard to maintain an aura of invincibility after you have been vinced, especially in a month when pundits had suggested that Romney might build up an unstoppable momentum of victories.
In a sense, this year's campaign for the Republican nomination is reminiscent of what happened back in 1940, when the big-name favorites — Sens. Taft and Vandenberg, back then — were eclipsed by a lesser-known candidate who seemed to come out of nowhere.
As the GOP convention that year struggled to try to come up with a majority vote for someone, a chant began in the hall and built to a crescendo: "We want Willkie! We want Willkie!"
If there is a message in the rise and fall of so many conservative Republican candidates during this year's primary season, it seems to be today's Republican voters saying, "We don't want Romney! We don't want Romney!"
Even in Colorado, where Gov. Romney came closest to winning, the combined votes for Sen. Santorum and Speaker Gingrich added up to an absolute majority against him.
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Music to my Pennsylvania ears. We've been waiting 150+ years to redress the Buchanan disaster.
He spells his name Romney and Obama spells his OBAMA,that is the Difference
“Even in Colorado, where Gov. Romney came closest to winning, the combined votes for Sen. Santorum and Speaker Gingrich added up to an absolute majority against him.”
Look folks, whatever you feel about whatever candidate, the assumption is faulty here.
That assumption is that if one candidate dropped out, some other candidate would get 100% of their votes.
Not justifiable statistically, not a valid numbers argument.
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