Posted on 02/18/2012 2:05:58 PM PST by Mozilla
There are four candidates left standing in the GOP presidential nomination contest. But it’s really come down to a two-man race heading toward primary elections in Arizona and Michigan, then on to Super Tuesday with ten more contests and a lot more convention delegates than have been at stake so far.
For recently surging Rick Santorum and Republican establishment favorite Mitt Romney, the battle at this point couldn’t be closer or more important.
Michigan – Romney’s nominal home state (although he hasn’t lived there for years and was most notably governor of Massachusetts) could be make-or-break.
The headline this week in the Detroit Free Press had to be jolting for Romney: “New polls show Rick Santorum leading Mitt Romney in Michigan primary race.”
“An MRG Michigan Poll, done with Lansing-based Inside Michigan Politics, showed Santorum up 43-33 percent on Romney, trailed by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at 11 percent and US Rep. Ron Paul of Texas at 8 percent,” the newspaper reported. “Mitchell Research, a polling firm in East Lansing, released a survey showing Santorum ahead of Romney 34-25, with Paul at 11 percent and Gingrich at 5 percent.”
Meanwhile, the Real Clear Politics average of five polls has Santorum ahead of Romney in Michigan by 8 percentage points.
That has left some Republican Party insiders worrying about what to do if Romney loses the state where his father was a popular governor and top auto executive.
“If Romney cannot win Michigan, we need a new candidate,” a Republican US senator, who has not endorsed any of the presidential candidates, told Jonathan Karl of ABC News.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
I’m upset at this GOP elite junk of “we need a new candidate if Romney loses.” No you’ll get who ever beats him.
Once it’s down to a single nominee - whoever he may be - the press will REALLY break out the long knives and do their very best to trash him, making way for their socialist, One World Sweetheart, Obama.
"At large" delegates only I believe.
If Romney loses then HE LOSES...
We can only hope. And whatta fun night to watch Fox News, if for no other reason to see Ann Coulter’s adam’s apple pop right through the front of her neck..and Karl Rove’s head explode on National TV.
POPCORN!!!
We really do need a “like” button FR.
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