Posted on 03/06/2012 1:59:32 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP
In the days leading to Super Tuesday contests, Rick Santorum stepped away from social issues and bombastic speeches while barnstorming Ohio to recast himself as the underdog whose blue-collar roots would stay true to American values.
Yet the former senator from Pennsylvania lost ground, slipping to a near dead heat with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in Ohio, the key state among 10 in which voters will cast ballots today, pollsters said.
"I thought his message has become so unclear on who he is or what he stands for that I am losing confidence on his ability to win the election in November," Dana Kasel, 43, of Perrysburg, Ohio, a Czechoslovakia native who became a U.S. citizen, said of Santorum. "It was his talk about how his grandfather realized the American dream that attracted me."
In a weekend poll of 753 likely GOP primary voters, Romney pulled ahead of Santorum, 34 percent to 31 percent -- a 10-point shift in one week, said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. The survey's 3.6-percentage-point margin of error "makes the Ohio race too close to call, but Romney is the one with the wind at his back," Brown said. (Snip)
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You got it FRiend.....
Some polls closing in Vermont, Virginia and Ohio in 6 minutes.
Yup, time to go watch the results, good luck for our side!
You trying to say that they are not? This forum changed about as many votes, as my shouting at the TV. But in any case Newt will not be President nor will Romney, that is my sad prediction.
No one hopes I am wrong more than me.
You guys are beginning to act an awful lot like PaulBots.
You know, Yaelle is probably horrified by that picture.
I mean, cut government? By G-d, without an all-powerful government... how can Saint Santuckabee make us all be moral Christians (even the non-believers)?
How are you with crow?
“You guys are beginning to act an awful lot like Paulbots.”
Obviously itsahoot didn’t get the memo....it’s Romneybots.....your off message itsahoot.
Go Newt!
Wow, the Republic is near collapse and you think this is fun.
If newt leads after tonight maybe he has a shot. Let’s see.
But newt is no better than Santorum, and you guys treat him like he’s the greatest. I believe you guys will be moaning when he’s president and he doesn’t realize his place as our humble representative.
I’d just really not like Romney to be smiling his smile tonight and alk the pundits crowning him. You know?
Nope, apparently you didn't get it. PaulBots campaign viciously for their candidate, knowing he has no chance of winning.
You missed the joke FRiend.
I think not. This is not a joking matter.
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