Posted on 02/24/2012 1:20:43 PM PST by Mariner
True to a primary season already marked by sudden and surprising ups and downs, Mitt Romney has jumped back into the lead in Michigan’s Republican Primary race. The vote’s on Tuesday.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary Voters in Michigan shows Romney with 40% of the vote and former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum with 34%. The poll was conducted on Thursday night, following the last scheduled debate among the GOP candidates. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
I did it not to be mean, but to illustrate a point.
Excellent speech by Gingrich. If the voters in Michigan were smart they would vote for Newt!
What point? A 7 year freeper isn't a newbie by any definition.
Seriously.......what was the point?
(Just for the record, I'm sick of the extreme rhetoric from both sides of the argument. I understand that sometimes people get carried away, but this stupid name-calling from both Newt and Rick supporters needs to stop. We are ALL on the same side, no matter which of the two men [or either] that we support).
Those same MI voters who give 0bama a 53% approval ...
I had four robo’s on my machine. Two of them ripping Santorum as a “big spender” and two trying to get me to go to Flint for a Mitt rally. This is from the jagoff who gave us Romneycare.
I usually post the latest polls, but yesterday I literally had one of the moderators tell me to stop posting the latest polls in breaking news..
Today I log in and log at breaking news... and here this post is. I don’t understand when a poll constitutes breaking news and when it doesn’t. I have been busting my tail for months posting the latest polls of the race usually within minutes of them being released. Sometimes even before they were released by posting the tweets that they were about to be released. And yet yesterday I get dressed down for my selfless efforts to make this site the go-to stop for the latest up to date information on the race. And I was doing it for free.
I don’t get it.
youre not the only one
Well, I’ll be glad to discuss it with you. I think that Newt will pick a minority running mate, and, I’m pretty sure that he and Herman Cain have made a deal to team up as running mates. That would be good. But..........
We really need Marco Rubio on the Ticket. The Hispanic vote is huge and whomever wins Florida, will occupy the White House. The 3 Key State to Presidential victory, historically, are Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. Whoever wins two of those three, ALWAYS wins the Election. How about Santorum (PA) and Rubio (FL) for a Ticket?
Santorum is pretending to his prayed for voters that Reagan’s right hand man is just another Obama.
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Am I missing something here or is this sentence totally incomprehensible.
I don’t think Romney will beat Obama,
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Well, in ‘08, Romney could NOT beat McCain. McCain could NOT beat Obama. So what does that tell you.
That would be better than any ticket with Romney, but if Santorum doesn’t get enough delegates, it’s not going to happen. In the O’Reilly poll, Rubio came in first by a wide margin as a VP pick.
I was just kicking the thought of a Gingrich/ Santorum ticket around as a way to maybe counter the Romney and Paul shenanigans, and possibly compile the delegates to win.
I listened to Levin last night when he had Newt on. Newt also says there is something going on between the Mitt and Ron. Levin says he did a whole hour on what he thinks is happening, so I’m going to go back and find that show and listen to it.
Looks like Santorum isn’t really losing any support and is staying about the same as he has been here for some time...it is just that none of the undecideds are going his way that he has fallen behind.
750 likely voters......small sample size. Typically, I see 1,000-1,500 sample sizes.
Maybe, but an added factor is that Romney has been put on the defensive and forced to spend lots of money to defend himself in a state he should have been able to count on winning.
A defeat in Michigan could be a knockout blow for Romney. It was worth the effort by Santorum even if he fails, and if he wins, the scenario of the Republican establishment hunting for a better candidate than Romney becomes more than mere talk.
67 posted on Friday, February 24, 2012 4:36:08 PM by onyx: “Come on, cripplecreek. For the past 53 days I've been busy with our FReepathon thread, but you've been quite divisive in your support for Santorum against all his rivals. If Romney wins MI, it won't be Mariner's fault or the fault of anyone here.”
Onyx and Cripplecreek, I'm getting into this with a lot of hesitation, but I believe something does need to be said.
The short-term goal is to defeat Mitt Romney. The medium-term goal is to defeat President Barack Obama. The long-term goal is to defeat liberalism and send it to the ash heap of history.
Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have those same three goals.
I've seen some pretty serious bitterness on Free Republic against Rick Santorum. I can understand why Santorum supporters — and I count myself in that group — want to respond in kind.
That is not helpful. Newt Gingrich is not the enemy. Unlike some of his supporters, Gingrich is not an enemy of Judeo-Christian culture. If he were, I'd be saying some very different things.
17 posted on Friday, February 24, 2012 3:43:03 PM by Mariner: “Which begs the question: How will Santorum supporters react if he falls back to his historical norms? What will they do if somebody besides Rick wins the nomination? Will they still vote GOP up and down the ticket? I'm concerned.”
I share your concerns, Mariner.
Much depends on the name attached to the question of “if somebody besides Rick wins the nomination.”
I've been trying hard on a number of church-related websites where I am personally known to make a case that a Christian conservative can vote for Newt Gingrich. I am not happy with what I am hearing; too many people who respect me are telling me that I am nuts and no Christian should ever vote for Gingrich. The question of personal morality is, I suspect, part of why polls consistently show that a significant part of Santorum’s support will go to Romney rather than Gingrich if Santorum drops out — such voters need to be educated that Gingrich, not Romney, is a pro-life candidate.
I know some of that talk will go away if Gingrich actually is the nominee. I can make a good historical case that the Reformation would never have succeeded without the help of some grossly immoral civil rulers who supported the followers of Luther and Calvin for their own reasons, and the same could be said of the Counter-Reformation. There's a long history of Christians making common cause with people who share our political agenda even if they don't share our faith. But I'm having considerably more trouble making that case this year than I had four years ago with regard to Sen. McCain in the genera election, even though we actually have some fairly good reason to believe that Newt Gingrich, unlike McCain, has actually repented of his past wickedness.
Antagonizing social conservative voters is not a recipe for Republican victory, and I fear what will happen if something isn't done soon.
Best to them from an ex-aviation sailor (1975-1986).
Why would anyone think that Marco Rubio would get a large share of Hispanic votes? I don’t see the connection.
Well, let's give him some more credit: 100% of the pounding he's taken in the last two weeks has been generated by the MSM to help Obozo by helping Romney, and they reached back to his Ave Maria College remarks of -- what? -- four years ago? to dredge up their Maguffin, their peg on which they hung their proposition that Santorum's a narrow "religious bigot", a modern-day Cotton Mather.
Which, by the way, is "oppo" work. The MSM's running "oppo" on Rick Santorum, and he's staying more-or-less even with those BS-tards and their flaming, simpering spite machine.
One more time, guys: Marco Rubio has eligibility issues. And if you don't think the 'Rats have enough flexuous hypocrisy and chutzpah to call us hypocrites for putting Rubio on the ticket, if we do, then you're living in Wonderland. They have that, they'll do it, and they won't look back -- because they've got the LieStreamMedia to cover for them, every time, on every issue.
' I mean, I like Rubio, and I'm glad he showed the abominable Crist the door in Florida politics, and I'm glad he's a U.S. Senator, since he raises the overall grade in that place.
But he has serious eligibility issues.
I’m not sure the Dems would make that challenge for fear of alienating the Latino vote. However, Rubio would not be my first choice for VP. He is well spoken and tallented, but not yet experienced enough to be one heart beat away from the Presidency, even without eligibiltiy issues IMHO.
I believe Bobby Jindl also has the same problem with eligibility.
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