Posted on 02/22/2012 8:07:25 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP
Tied up in Michigan: New NBC/Marist poll -- Romney 37%, Santorum 35%, Paul 13%, Gingrich 8%... But NBC/Marist also has Romney with a sizable lead in Arizona – Romney 43%, Santorum 27%, Gingrich 16%, Paul 11%...
Organization is helping Romney in both states (see his early-voting/absentee advantage), but ideology is hurting him (Tea Party supporters and conservatives breaking toward Santorum)… General-election numbers: Obama leads in Michigan, but trails in Arizona… Three questions heading into tonight’s GOP debate in Arizona… It’s the 20th of the cycle, and it begins at 8:00 pm ET… And Obama’s corporate-tax plan.
Less than a week before Tuesday’s crucial GOP presidential primary in Michigan -- and before tonight’s debate in Arizona -- a new NBC/Marist poll finds Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum locked in a statistical tie in Michigan, while a separate NBC/Marist survey shows Romney comfortably leading in Arizona.
The Michigan numbers among likely Republican primary voters: Romney 37%, Santorum 35%, Paul 13%, and Gingrich 8%. The Arizona figures: Romney 43%, Santorum 27%, Gingrich 16%, and Paul 11%. “Michigan is neck and neck,” says pollster Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted both surveys (Feb. 19-20).
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The Drudge-supported promotion of misquoted media clips of Santorum/aides statements are doing the trick for Romney, as designed.
Doesn’t surprise me.
What you fail to realize is, following the perceived leader, without being loyal to one candidate, creates the spectacle we are now dealing with.
I am loyal to one candate. I was for Palin, she didn’t run. I was for Cain, he dropped out. Now I’m for Gingrich. If he doesn’t make it, I’m for Santorum. Will not vote for Romney.
it is pretty funny that newt said who loses his home state should drop out and then next couple of days we see mitt might win mi after all but newt is sinking in georgia...alas i doubt newt will be a man of his word
“I am loyal to one candate. I was for Palin, she didn’t run. I was for Cain, he dropped out. Now I’m for Gingrich. If he doesn’t make it, I’m for Santorum. Will not vote for Romney.”
LOL, you just meant you were loyal to one at a time!
Kind of what has happened to me.
Rick can still pull it off.
I do not think so.
LOL! A lot of Paul Bots will deny it.
The media and Tokyo Rove have already trotted out their excuse templates if Mitt loses in Michigan.
1. He hasn’t lived there for a long time.
2. They don’t remember his daddy
3. People only know him as Massachusetts Governor
So if Mitt does happen to lose Michigan, these are the only reasons he would lose according to Tokyo.
But this mess is all due to fair weather politics. And it will end up in a disaster, unless we can pull off a Newt/Sarah ticket by a 3rd party effort, or a brokered convention option.
Liberal dope heads, the lot of em!
There are those who say Paul has made a deal with the devil, uh, Romney that is. I’m not about to say they’re wrong.
Besides, the numbers are just not there for your hero.
I think Santorum will win there.
BTW, with all the Santorum “satan” comments, I ask my classes that, if you hear Satanic messages when you play Led Zeppelin backwards, if you play a Satanic cult ritual backwards do you hear “Stairway to Heaven?”
[Rick can still pull it off.]
The only thing Santorum can “pull off” is his goofy sweater vest campaign theme.
I listened to Gingrich on Hannity’s radio show the other day. He kept pointing out that he had “big ideas”, that he was the candidate who thought “big”, etc.
He hasn’t figured out that we’re plenty sick of new “big ideas.” The original “big ideas” were framed in our Constitution over two centuries ago. We need a President who recognizes that and leads us back to them, not to some Newt world filled with new ones.
Every time he used the word “big”, it grated on me and reminded be of “BIG Government.” If he’s got that much of a tin ear, he’d have trouble in the general election, and it would also explain why he has so little support from those who had to work with him when he was Speaker.
That said, I’d support him over Romney, but Santorum is looking like the better choice for now.
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