But the man who suffered an 18-point loss in his home state after two terms from the people who knew him best is somehow electoral gold? And that's exactly the kind of state he claims he's going to be strong in now.
If electability is your goal, vote Mitt. He's proven more electable in the primary so far even without getting the conservative vote. Or try to draft Hillary. She could beat Obama, and that's all you care about, right? Some of us would prefer to actually work to elect someone who can actually fix this country, not just be the establishment's lapdog and continue doling out the empty socialist promises.
Those 7 percentage points from Newt probably wouldn't go to Rick mostly. Rick has now proven he loses on competency and electability to Mitt. Gingrich was already divorced and remarried when he swept the House in 1994 and became Speaker. Everyone, liberal, moderate and conservative alike agree Newt is extremely smart. That's a huge personal advantage going into the election. It's easy to soften up various rough edges on a candidate, but you can't make a dumb guy smart.
Especially if you want to learn WAY more about MORMONism than SLC is comfortable about telling you.
Imagine a world with 4-5 SuperPacs funded by Soros.
Now imagine 4 more years of Obama.