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Newt Gingrich intensifies Deep South strategy, shifting resources to Alabama, Mississippi
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Posted on 03/07/2012 10:33:59 AM PST by VinL

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To: onyx

OHHhh you MUST ping the list! I want to hear all about it!!!


61 posted on 03/07/2012 1:10:36 PM PST by ConfidentConservative (If my people shall humble themselves and pray,I will hear from Heaven and heal their land.)
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To: SnakeDoctor

“All of the logic being used by the Santorum campaign is simply reversed and it could be used on Rick Santorum,”

I agree with this statement.


62 posted on 03/07/2012 1:12:10 PM PST by ConfidentConservative (If my people shall humble themselves and pray,I will hear from Heaven and heal their land.)
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To: alstewartfan

Understood. But, on the other end, he’ll know in a week. He will either win Ala and Miss- or he won’t. Senseless, at this point, after a year’s campaigning, to not give it one more week- especially where these are arguably his best states.
You can see his view, right?


63 posted on 03/07/2012 1:15:57 PM PST by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, than to consent to wrong.)
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To: napscoordinator

I agree, I don’t think Newt’s campaign has been well managed at all.


64 posted on 03/07/2012 1:17:58 PM PST by livius
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To: livius

I am trying to figure out a different system for these primaries and thought using the elector college would be way better then the system they have now. I would require all 50 states mandatory must vote for the candidates and nobody is named nominee until after the 50th states. However, using this system does not work either because the numbers are awful.

Using the electoral college:

Romney gets 133
Santorum gets 58
Newt gets 23


65 posted on 03/07/2012 1:32:05 PM PST by napscoordinator (A moral principled Christian with character is the frontrunner! Congrats Santorum!)
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To: napscoordinator

Interesting. I don’t like “winner take all contests”, or attempts to shorten the primary season. I think both favor big money, and favor establishment candidates.


66 posted on 03/07/2012 1:34:58 PM PST by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: napscoordinator

Irrespective of whether Santorum or Gingrich win MS and AL, having both of them running will guarantee that neither will get 50%+1 of the vote, and thus the states’ delegates will be allocated proportionally instead of winner-takes-all, allowing Romney to win delegates in both states. If Gingrich drops out, Santorum would get over 50% of the vote in each state and Romney would get 0 delegates.


67 posted on 03/07/2012 1:43:19 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: AuH2ORepublican

Santo can drop out and Gingrich gets 50% of the vote.


68 posted on 03/07/2012 1:45:31 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: AuH2ORepublican

That would be great, if one wants Santorum as president.


69 posted on 03/07/2012 1:46:36 PM PST by Toespi
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To: onyx

We’ll be out of town or we would go see him in Desoto county. GO NEWT!


70 posted on 03/07/2012 1:47:34 PM PST by 22cal (Forgiven, not perfected)
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To: Toespi

It goes both ways. Santo drops out and Gingrich becomes president.


71 posted on 03/07/2012 1:48:35 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Toespi
What bugs me is the casual assumption on the part of so many Santorum supporters that Santorum is an acceptable alternative for Newt's supporters. For some of us, that is definitely not the case.
72 posted on 03/07/2012 1:51:18 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: AuH2ORepublican

Your theory is all wet.


73 posted on 03/07/2012 1:52:40 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: Yaelle
Santorum loves to shine, too. His speech last night was mostly about him and broad generalities. I kept saying where are your ideas, Rick? They were very few. Yes, and he was boring where as Newt is concise and smart.
74 posted on 03/07/2012 1:54:06 PM PST by 22cal (Forgiven, not perfected)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

I would venture to say, that would count for MOST of us.


75 posted on 03/07/2012 1:54:42 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: 22cal

76 posted on 03/07/2012 1:57:10 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: VinL

No, it’s only a matter of personal pride to him right now. We have a country to save. Even IF he is able to snatch victories from Rick, Newt will have 4 states, and that will be the end of the line. Thanks much, Newt! Bob


77 posted on 03/07/2012 1:58:02 PM PST by alstewartfan ( 27 of 36 Romney judicial appointments were DEMOCRATS!!!!!)
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To: 22cal

Read his website. I thought that his speech was great, and full of reasons to vote for him, and against Romney and the Punk. Bob


78 posted on 03/07/2012 1:59:48 PM PST by alstewartfan ( 27 of 36 Romney judicial appointments were DEMOCRATS!!!!!)
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To: VinL
Might as well turn this thing into a regional thing and kick off the next Civil War.

Newt should run to be the second President of the CSA.

79 posted on 03/07/2012 2:05:20 PM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
I think you're right. It's odd that Santorum supporters seem to just irnogre what we actually think in favor of what they'd like us to think.

Not sure about you, but for me, it was his blatant hostility towards the "liberatarian" element in the party that got me. Heck, I posted a Reagan speech where he said that (small "l") "libertarianism", in contrast to the more extreme positions of the Libertarian Party, is really the heart of conservatism. Yet Santorum openly despises even that small "l" libertarianism.

I'll vote for him if he's the nominee, but that's it. And my vote there won't matter anyway because he'd get crushed.

80 posted on 03/07/2012 2:08:39 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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