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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Wonderful! I’m so happy to hear that!
Psycho-Freep is a Santorum basher and is preparing to habit one of Gingrich’s permanent moon-based colonies within eight years and plans on $2.50 rocket fuel to get him there. If we get Romney, it’s because of Gingrich. Romney for sure knows this and I suspect as does Gingrich but not his followers.
Keep it nice and civil, and especially classy.......Just like our NEWT!
Well said!!
Go in peace. Not worth getting mad over or getting mad about.
We’re not democrats, so we each only have one vote.
I get to vote for Newt next Tuesday!
At least 5 in my family voted today for Newt.
GO NEWT!
Steelfish talks about PSYCHO-FREEP without pinging him.
That’s called rude and cowardly.
Steelfish lies about Newt Gingrich.
Call that whatever you wish.
AAH HAAAaaaa..........
Thank you, FRiend.
Hiya bonfire!
God bless you and your family!!!
GO NEWT!!!!!!
Just keep prepping. Even though we may lose the top spot, we may still win Congress, essentially make El Stupido a lame duck for 4 years.
It’s all right. Hang in there, FRiend.
Oh, for Pete’s sake.
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It’s Psycho-Freep’s thread: he gets it automatically. No rudeness there. He did send me a dead-man walking pic of a lunar Gingrich.
“try to win some of them back!”
I would try to do that, but they’ve been warned for weeks.
Rick’s support was an ABR bubble that built up after Florida. Rick won some non binding caucuses that appeared to give him momentum. He started saying dumb things and backtracking. He completely blew the Michigan debate. He continued saying dumb things. He blew a 9 point lead in Michigan, and couldn’t pull it out even with liberal Democrat support! He’s been bleeding support ever since. He had a big lead in Ohio, and now it appears Romney will win that! He doesn’t even have delegates in place where he is winning votes! This is a debacle that could have been prevented. Then they have the nerve to call names, and blame it on Newt and his supporters? Cmon!
Newt got our votes here in Ohio!!
Take Heart! All will be well, but I understand your frustration. Here’s hoping tomorrow we’ll be “Cheerful”!
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