Newt Gingrich intensifies Deep South strategy, shifting resources to Alabama, Mississippi

WashPo ^ | 3-7-12 | Thompson

[ConfidentConservative]

OHHhh you MUST ping the list! I want to hear all about it!!!

[ConfidentConservative]

“All of the logic being used by the Santorum campaign is simply reversed and it could be used on Rick Santorum,”

I agree with this statement.

[VinL]

Understood. But, on the other end, he’ll know in a week. He will either win Ala and Miss- or he won’t. Senseless, at this point, after a year’s campaigning, to not give it one more week- especially where these are arguably his best states.
You can see his view, right?

[livius]

I agree, I don’t think Newt’s campaign has been well managed at all.

[napscoordinator]

I am trying to figure out a different system for these primaries and thought using the elector college would be way better then the system they have now. I would require all 50 states mandatory must vote for the candidates and nobody is named nominee until after the 50th states. However, using this system does not work either because the numbers are awful.

Using the electoral college:

Romney gets 133
Santorum gets 58
Newt gets 23

[trappedincanuckistan]

Interesting. I don’t like “winner take all contests”, or attempts to shorten the primary season. I think both favor big money, and favor establishment candidates.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Irrespective of whether Santorum or Gingrich win MS and AL, having both of them running will guarantee that neither will get 50%+1 of the vote, and thus the states’ delegates will be allocated proportionally instead of winner-takes-all, allowing Romney to win delegates in both states. If Gingrich drops out, Santorum would get over 50% of the vote in each state and Romney would get 0 delegates.

[Red Steel]

Santo can drop out and Gingrich gets 50% of the vote.

[Toespi]

That would be great, if one wants Santorum as president.

[22cal]

We’ll be out of town or we would go see him in Desoto county. GO NEWT!

[Red Steel]

It goes both ways. Santo drops out and Gingrich becomes president.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

What bugs me is the casual assumption on the part of so many Santorum supporters that Santorum is an acceptable alternative for Newt's supporters. For some of us, that is definitely not the case.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Your theory is all wet.

[22cal]

Santorum loves to shine, too. His speech last night was mostly about him and broad generalities. I kept saying where are your ideas, Rick? They were very few. Yes, and he was boring where as Newt is concise and smart.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

I would venture to say, that would count for MOST of us.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

[alstewartfan]

No, it’s only a matter of personal pride to him right now. We have a country to save. Even IF he is able to snatch victories from Rick, Newt will have 4 states, and that will be the end of the line. Thanks much, Newt! Bob

[alstewartfan]

Read his website. I thought that his speech was great, and full of reasons to vote for him, and against Romney and the Punk. Bob

[central_va]

Might as well turn this thing into a regional thing and kick off the next Civil War.

Newt should run to be the second President of the CSA.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I think you're right. It's odd that Santorum supporters seem to just irnogre what we actually think in favor of what they'd like us to think.

Not sure about you, but for me, it was his blatant hostility towards the "liberatarian" element in the party that got me. Heck, I posted a Reagan speech where he said that (small "l") "libertarianism", in contrast to the more extreme positions of the Libertarian Party, is really the heart of conservatism. Yet Santorum openly despises even that small "l" libertarianism.

I'll vote for him if he's the nominee, but that's it. And my vote there won't matter anyway because he'd get crushed.