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Amir0x said:
that's just not how the system works. These candidates already are splitting delegates. Anyone who jumped in now would have such immense organizational problems it'd be just ridiculous. Even making it on the ballot in most of the remaining states would be complicated at this stage without the organizational system in place.

There is no chance that anyone will jump in now. These are the four candidates remaining; Santorum is about to be out shortly and Paul is only doing it for shits and gigs like always.

It's Romney vs. Gingrich.
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I'm just glad Charles Lindbergh isn't still alive.
 
Plinko said:
*spits water*

This is a CLEAR sign how out of touch people in the GOP are if they think Gingrich is more electable.

One thing to remember, though--this is South Carolina. Some of the craziest right-wingers are voting today.
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Yep... http://us.cnn.com/election/2012/primaries/epolls/sc

Was most important for 45% and Newt won half of those people. But despite it being SC, that shows that Mitt's still having trouble convincing conservative Southern voters, and that doesn't bode well for him, even if he does become the nominee.

And lol @ this undecided voter shit that CNN's doing again. IIRC, Romney creamed the comp when he spoke in NH, and that clearly meant jack-shit in the end.
 
Gary Whitta said:
Ha, maybe I'm being too influenced by the fake campaign on the West Wing where they had a brokered Democratic convention and last-minute candidates came out of the woodwork.
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Haha, yeah. Brokered Conventions are still theoretically possible (even though the way these primary/caucus processes are set up, it's highly unlikely that one of the nominees wouldn't emerge with enough delegates), but the end result would not be a completely new nominee jumping in at the last second. It'd be some combination of political horse trading, usually resulting in the two final candidates with the most delegates making a deal of some sort (usually one or the other would concede, provided he's given the assurance of X cabinet position or VP or something.)
 
Santorum probably feels Newt will implode again, which isn't an illogical assumption. But if Newt goes down, Romney wins at this point. This SC win is basically the last breath of the anti-Romney folks. Most likely Romney will win Florida and win the nomination somewhat easily after that, outside of losing southern states to Newt.
 
Gary Whitta said:
If it turns out that CNN and John King made Newt Gingrich President of the United States I'm gonna be PISSED.
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It won't be CNN--it will be the right-wing's persecution complex regarding the media.
 
PhoenixDark said:
Another soulless speech from Romney. He's phoning it in.
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He's probably really upset. Been thinking he had this in the bag for a while and you can just smell how much he REALLY REALLY wants to be President. Just got his first real shock that it won't be easy and that maybe this time around isn't his turn either.
 
i wonder if Romney's staff is going to tell him to get more aggressive in the debate next week, and how awkward Romney will look when he tries - since he's incapable of that type of emotion

It's amazing that in a week though it went from 'Romney might sweep the first three states' to 'Romney only won New Hampshire so far.'
 
Plinko said:
This is stunning to me and I think it happened because he called Newt out on his BS during the debate. For some inexplicable reason evangelicals are flooding to the adulterer who appears to hate everyone but rich white men.
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On the list of inexplicable things I've seen in my life... that is not one of them.
 
Romney has to develop a new angle, just bashing Obama isn't going to do it for him. It reminds me of Hillary Clinton just bashing Bush all the damn time. It didn't do anything for me, I wanted to hear why I needed to vote for her instead of Obama.
 
Plinko said:
*spits water*

This is a CLEAR sign how out of touch people in the GOP are if they think Gingrich is more electable.

One thing to remember, though--this is South Carolina. Some of the craziest right-wingers are voting today.
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I think this is primarily the result of his recent debate performances. The electorate was primed for the notion that Newt was best positioned to defeat Obama because of he could win the presidential debates.
 
Gary Whitta said:
How come Santorum didn't do better? He had the momentum coming out of Iowa and this is the first southern primary, where'd you'd expect a big social conservative to play better. Isn't he the Huckabee of this cycle?
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He eventually got support of the evangelical leaders but too little too late I think.
 
Newt's strategy of saying how he'll smack Obama around in the debates is brilliant. Doing that is more important to the base than actually winning the election.
 
we need mitt

we need mitt

we need mitt

I like how he basically said his campaign is going to be about his campaign and not his record as governor? Unless I misunderstood, I wasn't really paying attention because lol romney.

I know the latest FL polls showed Mitt winning by double digits over Gingrich, but this turnabout in SC happened in a matter of days. Gingrich just needs to keep the mo going until Super Tuesday. Winning Florida and Minnesota would help greatly going into Super Tuesday.

41%!
 
Campaign speeches always crack me up. Make outlandish claims about your opponents and people eat the shit up with question. Politics lulz
 
10.9% of Precincts reporting

Gingrich 39.5%
Romney 27.8%
Santorum 17.2%
Paul 13.0%
Perry 1.2%
Cain 0.7%
Huntsman 0.4%
Bachmann 0.1%
 
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