Romney’s Coronation: Just Delayed, or Gone Awry?

U Va.Center for Politic's (Sabato's Crystal Ball ) | 01/22/2012 | Larry J. Sabato and Kyle Kondik

[CynicalBear]

>>I think many of this demographic would switch from Santorum over to Romney<<

How can you say that? Both Santorum and Romney lost support yesterday and Gingrich gained.

[FrankR]

[MissMagnolia]

Lefty Larry was caught working for Jim Webb ‘s campaign In secret while running around smearing Sen Allen and Pushing his DNC push polls BS.

Thus the moniker Larry "Sabotage".

[sanjuanbob]

When I see and hear Romney, the vision of John Kerry always comes to mind. Elitist loser.

[moehoward]

" .. In fact, I think a substantial percentage of Santorum’s voters would switch over to Romney."

That is a frightening, but I think you're correct .... thought.

Plan on 40(ish)%. That's if he drops out right after FL. But there are many reports of Mitt contributing to Rick's coffers to keep him in as a spoiler. As long as Rick's polling numbers stay in double digits, Romney will keep the cash flowing.

[Yollopoliuhqui]

Almost every GOP candidate who announced has surged against Romney. Why? People don’t trust him. He is rightfully perceived to be the candidate of the “Establishment”, which, for all you old guard John Birchers means the “oligarchy” of bankers, globalists, elitists and invisible hand, back channel manipulators of markets and debt which are an anathema to patriots. These are the peckerwoods who got us into this economic mess and people know it. Romney and his handlers are not trusted for good reason. Anyhow, Newt is smarter.

[newzjunkey]

As the piece says, Santorum needs to go this week. Even if he doesn't explicitly endorse Romney, I don't expect he'd endorse Newt.

I don't agree with the piece, however, a victory for Romney in winner-take-all FL will restart the inevitability storyline with many Romney-friendly places like Mormon-heavy Nevada and his birthplace of Michigan voting the next month.