The 2012 Republican Primary thread, early edition

[myboynoah]

Keep the sabbath day holy

Ah, that makes sense.

[YOhio]

He's pulling away from the Newt, and Newt is self-destructing, so why risk a TV appearance? Nothing good can come from it, only a slip-up, or a "gotcha" question, or something along those lines.

Newt just stopped by press dinner table in Jax to say Insider Advantage poll will show him w/i 5 points. "The momentum is now w/ me."

https://twitter.com/#!/MichaelCBender/status/163823987086987264

[Green Monstah]

https://twitter.com/#!/MichaelCBende...23987086987264

I sure hope not. It's time to put the fat, angry hobbit out of his misery.

[LA Ute]

https://twitter.com/#!/MichaelCBende...23987086987264

My guess is that Mitt doesn't agree that Newt has the momentum.

[myboynoah]

https://twitter.com/#!/MichaelCBende...23987086987264

I've seen a report on that. Public Policy Polling has Mitt up by 7 points with 39% to The Gingrich's 32%.

I thought this was interesting:

Romney continues to have a large lead in the bank in Florida. 34% of our respondents said they'd already voted and with those folks he has a 45-33 lead. That puts Gingrich in a position where he'd have to not only win the election day vote, but win it by 6 or 7 points to upset Romney in the state. The kind of reversal necessary to make that happen seems unlikely to occur in the next 48 hours.

Almost Romney's entire lead in Florida is coming from moderate voters. He has a 58-15 lead over Gingrich with them and only a 1 point advantage with the rest of the electorate. Other groups that continue to be a particular source of strength for Romney are seniors (48-32) and women (43-30).

“Mitt Romney is holding steady in our Florida polling,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. “It looks like the main suspense in the state is whether he’ll win by single digits or double digits. Right now he’s pretty close to that line.”

[myboynoah]

SurveyUSA/WFLA-TV poll has Mitt up 15 points with 41% and The Gingrich at 26%.

[Uncle Ted]

Somewhat NSFW

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[Moliere]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-...od-112783.html

At his first rally of the morning, Newt Gingrich rolled out a new attack line: Mitt Romney took kosher food away from elderly Jewish people.

Looks like Romney might be losing his grip on the Medicare aged, Jewish vote.

[wuapinmon]

[Jacob]

Mm k. It's nonsensical redneck-level douchetastic non-feasible jibber jabber and he still lost himself astoundingly backwards South Carolina to Newt-- progressive stance and all. Bad politics all around. Trying to lock down that all-powerful Asian immigrant vote, Mitt, with those visa incentives for those with advanced math degrees? Keep it up! That's it! Pledge to veto the DREAM Act and lose vital swing states like Florida and Arizona now! yay! :igiveup:

Based on this response alone, I am going to have to conclude that you haven't seriously considered both sides of this issue.

[Pelado]

In a weekend of trailing the former speaker to a series of events along the I-4 corridor, there was just no escaping that a campaign that was flying high (and even into outer space) ten days ago has now come crashing back to earth. At what was billed as a Hispanic town hall meeting at another church yesterday in Orlando, Gingrich was greeted by row after row of empty pews and maybe 40 voters in attendance. For a full hour after the scheduled starting time, Gingrich and his wife, Callista, sat outside, cloistered in his campaign bus — possibly sulking, possibly fuming at his campaign's horrid advance work, and surely praying that a few more souls would show up. When Gingrich finally entered the building, it was announced that the event was a town hall no more; the candidate would speak briefly, then take pictures with the scant few who'd turned up. And "briefly" was an understatement: Standing behind a Lucite lectern, Gingrich talked for a bare eight minutes and eleven seconds, looking deflated and exhausted. By no small margin, it was the worst and saddest campaign event that I have witnessed in this presidential cycle.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/01/newt-mad-and-mental-enough-to-fight-on-after-florida.html

[myboynoah]

New Suffolk University/WSVN-TV poll shows Mitt up 20 points with 47% to 27% for The Gingrich.

[Goatnapper'96]

New Suffolk University/WSVN-TV poll shows Mitt up 20 points with 47% to 27% for The Gingrich.

What that poll tells us is 53% of Republicans don't want Mitt!

[Moliere]

What that poll tells us is 53% of Republicans don't want Mitt!

Thanks Joanna Brooks!

[Moliere]

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/gingrich-romney-sold-religious-freedom-5day/348841

" His remarks about Romney's policies came immediately after promising to "sign an executive order repealing every Obama attack on religion across the entire government, period."

Obama hates religion