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S.C. Poll: Romney Lead Grows, Gingrich Second (Newmax/INs Adv)
Newsmax ^ | 1-15-12 | Staff

Posted on 01/15/2012 9:17:23 PM PST by VinL

An exclusive InsiderAdvantage poll released Sunday night shows GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney gaining in his lead in the South Carolina primary while former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is holding steady in second place.

In the poll of 720 likely registered voters in South Carolina GOP Primary, Romney was leading with 32 percent of the vote. Gingrich was second with 21 percent followed by Ron Paul with 14 percent.

The rundown:

* Romney: 32% * Gingrich: 21% * Paul: 14% * Santorum: 13% * Huntsman: 6% * Perry: 5% * Other: 2% * Undecided/ No opinion: 7%

“The poll is among likely voters who are registered in South Carolina and are likely to vote in the Republican contest. The survey is weighted for age, race, and gender,” said InsiderAdvantage chief pollster Matt

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To: byteback

You equate being against bad ethics and near-illegality with capitalism.

Gingrich and Perry are no more anti-capitalist because they oppose unscrupulous slime balls than they are anti-medicine because they oppose abortionists.


21 posted on 01/15/2012 9:48:25 PM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: byteback

“Buyout baron” Mitt Romney’s strategy of taking out loans in the name of a subsidiary, transferring the money to your shell corporation, and then letting the subsidiary go bankrupt and default on the loans while you keep all of the borrowed money is not “free enterprise,” it’s classic Wall Street market manipulation.


22 posted on 01/15/2012 9:49:14 PM PST by JediJones (Newt-er Romney in 2012!)
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To: John Valentine

Paul and Newt are the only real small government fiscal conservatives left, and I worry about Newt. Also the ‘sane’ people have not done well by the country lately so maybe a nut is no so bad?


23 posted on 01/15/2012 9:49:22 PM PST by jpsb
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To: JediJones

If there isn’t some kind of game-changer in the narrative in the next 5 days then the chances of a non-Romney winning will be dealt a serious blow
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Sarah Palin— not as a candidate- but as a Tea Party leader who says she can not stand by and watch the Establishment dictate out nominee.


24 posted on 01/15/2012 9:49:29 PM PST by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, than to consent to wrong.)
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To: Nextrush; TitansAFC
Rick will hang in there until Mitt has it locked up. Rick ties up the evangelical-fundamentalist vote that doesn’t like Mitt because he’s a Mormon and prevents it from joining forces with a conservative candidate to beat Romney.

And yet, Santorum is out there attacking Romney. That doesn't sound like stalking horse behavior to me.

You Newt people need to step up your game and stop attacking Santorum.

Romney is the target. Open fire, will you??
25 posted on 01/15/2012 9:49:43 PM PST by Antoninus (Mitt Romney -- attempting to execute a hostile take-over of the Republican Party.)
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To: jpsb; 50mm; Servant of the Cross; mkjessup; Vendome; SmithL; Old Sarge; kingattax

IBTZ! Paulbot sighting. Prepare for ZOT!!


26 posted on 01/15/2012 9:50:44 PM PST by DarthVader (That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
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To: JediJones

You are an Occupy Wall Street Bot!


27 posted on 01/15/2012 9:52:04 PM PST by byteback
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To: John Valentine

Your vote for Obama has been registered. Congrats!


28 posted on 01/15/2012 9:53:27 PM PST by byteback
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To: Antoninus

Can’t win so long as Iowa-wundertard boy Ricky Santorum is selfishly splitting the vote.

FURS.


29 posted on 01/15/2012 9:55:15 PM PST by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State | Gingrich 2012)
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To: VinL
Hi Vin, hope your day went good. Maybe someone should start a post or go to Sarah's facebook page asking for her to step in and help. In the debate, Newt has to stay on message and hit a home run.
30 posted on 01/15/2012 9:56:36 PM PST by Christie at the beach
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To: EDINVA

If Mitt is increasing his lead, it can’t be because any one of the conservatives in the race hasn’t dropped out. It’s logically impossible.

The only explanation for it is that Obama is right. Americans want socialism. Constitutionalists, despite what people say, are part of a shrinking minority.

Doesn’t matter at all who does or doesn’t drop out. If Mitt Romney can get over 30 % of South Carolinians to vote for him, then we are all totally screwed. Obscenely, nastily, violently screwed. For good. Get used to the feeling folks, you are going to be feeling it for at least another 20 to 30 years, if it EVER ends.

Obama, welcome to the White House. By the way, take the Supreme Court too while you’re at it. We don’t care. We’re just a bunch of spineless wimps who don’t mean a word we say. Were all words, no action.

We deserve what we get, and we WILL be getting it.

BOHICA, folks!


31 posted on 01/15/2012 9:58:19 PM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: VinL

I am a little disappointed in Sara for not enforcing when her endorsement would have impact, oh well.


32 posted on 01/15/2012 9:58:53 PM PST by jpsb
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To: byteback

I assume you, as a good conservative, are against people taking out mortgages they can’t afford, defaulting on the loans, and then asking the banks and the government to bail them out and let them stay in their homes? But you seem to think it’s okay if a Wall Street billionaire does the same thing and uses accounting tricks to get away with it. Do you have any particular argument as to why or are you going to rely on name-calling and insults to substitute for an actual point?


33 posted on 01/15/2012 9:58:58 PM PST by JediJones (Newt-er Romney in 2012!)
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To: byteback; JediJones

What a genius move by Obama. He conjoined the Occupiers with the Tea Party. The Tea Party was conceived as a direct result of the fact that the elites bailed out the too big to fail banks-—inarguably anti- capitalism.

Now, as we prepare to nominate another elite one world order socialist globalist— those who us who believe in American free enterprise and capitalism are equated with the occupiers.

Obama even suckered Rush.


34 posted on 01/15/2012 9:59:15 PM PST by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, than to consent to wrong.)
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To: TitansAFC

I think you are right. I know Rick is a good person but this thing is becoming silly-either we want a conservative or people are going to cave and go with a liberal republican. I am so tired of the same ole same ole.


35 posted on 01/15/2012 10:02:22 PM PST by Christie at the beach
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To: VinL

The difference between us Tea Partiers and the Occupiers is that the Occupiers think the “little guy” should get bailed out with socialism. The Tea Partiers think neither the “little guy” nor the elites should get bailed out with socialism.


36 posted on 01/15/2012 10:03:38 PM PST by JediJones (Newt-er Romney in 2012!)
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To: jpsb; RitaOK

Ron Paul is to the constitution in the same way Fred Phelps is to the Bible.


37 posted on 01/15/2012 10:03:56 PM PST by svcw (For the new year: you better toughen up, if you are going to continue to be stupid.)
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To: Antoninus

I’m a Newt supporter and am doing my best in Fl to organize and campaign for him. However, I would support Santorum if he was the nominee. Unfortunately, my family and all of their friends who live in western PA can’t stand Rick to the point of feeling betrayed. In this, I just don’t see and hear the support for Rick on the ground.


38 posted on 01/15/2012 10:04:03 PM PST by Kaosinla (The More the Plans Fail. The More the Planners Plan.)
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To: VinL

Jim DeMint is a sellout. Every time he talks about the primary he either praises Romney, or says “Romney will likely win”, without explicitly endorsing him. COWARD.


39 posted on 01/15/2012 10:04:03 PM PST by PAConservative1
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To: byteback

I have made it clear that I don’t support slime balls, and that includes slime balls of either party. Here it is in a nutshell; Romney gets the Republican nomination, Obama gets ALL the rest including reelection, his choices for the Supreme Court, rubber stamped by his Demorat Senate, and he gets to put you and all our kids and your kids’ kids into a socialist nightmare state for decades and decades to come. So go for your precious Romeny. But don’t expect sympathy when you realize what you have contributed to.


40 posted on 01/15/2012 10:05:26 PM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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