Based on the Florida numbers I'm seeing now if you add to Newt's total the votes for Bachmann, Perry and Cain, all of whom I've believed endorsed him, and then add in Santorum's total you get 46.13% more or less Conservatives. Mitt alone got 46.42% and realistically, if we're adding departed candidates, he should get Huntsman's giving a RINO total of 46.79%. Adding Johnson's pittance to Paul gives 7.08% Libertarians. Unless you could get all the Conservatives and nearly 55% of the Libertarian vote no one could beat Mitt here and now. If you think of where rich NE RINOs go to retire and avoid the taxes they created, it makes since that this should be a Mitt state. Santorum can't be blamed for Newt losing; at most he can be blamed for adding to the margin of Newt's loss.
Regardless of any lack of fairness and truth in the negative Florida barrage against Newt, the result was Newt didn't handle it as well as he needed to. If he's to win the general, given that Obama's skills and resources at such tactics will exceed Romney's, he'll need to improve. If he can't, and the claim that "Newt gives us the best chance vs. Obama-like records and tactics" is true, Florida's result is dispiriting and reason to pray for miracles. And if we need a miraculous finish, remember from what state extreme longshot Rocky Balboa came.
not a bad post....i agree...Florida gave us Mitt because it is well....Florida
i am a former Miami resident 88/95
summer in SoWal
and grew up going to Destin
have kin in Jax...and our own Matt Bracken
my dad as a utility contractor did much of original Disney water and sewer transmission and wet well works
i know the state well from Cape Sable to Cedar Key and were money no object I’d have a place at Boca Grande
but Florida ain’t what it used to be
i miss the Florida of Coppertone billboards....gone as surely as a Stephen Foster daydream
replaced with something odd