Poll: Gingrich on top in Mississippi

cnn ^ | March 9, 2012; 4 minutes ago | Gabriella Schwarz

[Red Steel]

(CNN) – Newt Gingrich is edging out his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination in Mississippi, according to a new poll.

The American Research Group survey of likely Republican primary voters released Friday showed Gingrich with 35% support, followed by Mitt Romney with 31%, Rick Santorum with 20% and Ron Paul with 7%.

Gingrich's margin over Romney increased slightly among those who said they will definitely vote in the March 13 primary, 37% to 30%. Santorum garnered 17% support and Paul received 5% among the same group.

The poll was conducted after Super Tuesday, when each of the GOP White House contenders picked up delegates. Romney won the popular vote in six states, while Santorum captured three and Gingrich nabbed one, his native Georgia.

Despite calls for him to bow out of the race, Gingrich has said he will remain in the contest until the convention and has also stressed the importance of wins in Mississippi and Alabama, which both vote on Tuesday.

[RitaOK]

GREAT OBSERVATION! I did not know that!

The TACTICAL genius at work!! VERY encouraging!

[RitaOK]

Now? Rick Santorum deigns to nod toward Gingrich, NOW?

LOL!!!!! Another sure sign Rick hits wall, or ceiling in this case.

Took him long enough to bend his stiff neck and drop his chin. This is BS. Don’t count on it. It’s Rick’s schlick.....again.

Rick goes with Romney in the end. He always has gone RINO and always will go RINO.

But, credit him for campaigning to the Right, right before he legislates to the unions and WITH the RINOS, never to be seen doing a thing on family values ever again while in office, when in a position to do so.

Every. Single. Time.

[Bailee]

Delegates from the precinct caucuses go on to the county conventions, which choose delegates to the district conventions, which in turn selects delegates to the Iowa State Convention. Thus, it is the Republican Iowa State Convention, not the precinct caucuses, which selects the ultimate delegates from Iowa to the Republican National Convention. All delegates are officially unbound from the results of the precinct caucus, although media organizations either estimate delegate numbers by estimating county convention results or simply divide them proportionally.

So then

Precinct Delegate elect delegates to the District convention that elects delegates to the State Convention that elects delegates to the Republican National Convention.

Sheesh why dont they just have a primary and be done with it.

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/iowa-caucus#ixzz1oeIAld7X

[Crucial]

It looks like either Romney or a brokered convention. Of the two, I’ll take the brokered convention.

[Bailee]

Yep we might even get Sarah Palin on a brokered ticket.

[stevestras]

This is good news for the country.

Given the war against Newt from the establishment, it shows that hard, honest campaigning can make a difference.

[magritte]

I don’t support Santorum. The notion that soft delegates will switch at their whim is total BS and is never going to happen. It’s a matter of commitment to the candidate they are pledged to.

Sorry. You are just wishful thinking.

[Conservative_Rob]

What this tells me is that the only place left for a Red Blooded Patriotic American is south of the Mason Dixon line.

If Odumbo steals a second term, I hope that the southern states tell DC that they will exercise their 10th Amendment rights and tell them to pound sand. I've got mine and my family's bags packed, and we'll move at a moment's notice, if the south breaks from DC. Note that I said "from DC". This time they will not secede from the union, they will simply state that the federal government has overstepped its Constitutional boundaries, and just ignore anything they say and do.

Let DC threaten to withhold monies appropriated to those states. They will simply withhold federal tax payments. Since DC already pays Social Security benefits to illegal aliens, they cannot withhold those payments to residents of those states. Anyway, I’d like to see them try. Just imagine, Mississippi and Alabama opening up the Gulf to drilling again. Woooheeee!

[newgeezer]

A third seems to want to enact Vatican dicta in America.

Really? Does it seem that way to you?

Is that you, Behar? Whoopi? Or, are you some other shrieking, Marxist b*tch?

[no dems]

What’s wrong with espousing the belief that abortion is wrong, and that less promiscuity before marriage is a good thing?
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We know that already. We don’t believe in abortion or same-sex marriage or having sex with a billy-goat. And the average American doesn’t give a sh** if two high school kids use a condom this weekend. Rick bashing JFK’s 52 y.o. speech on “Separation of Church and State” again today, is not going to lower the damn gas prices, raise the Employment numbers or protect us from Iran. He is the 21st Century Pat Robertson who ran in 1988. Best I remember, Pat never made it to the Oval Office. We (GOP) had control of the White House and both Houses of Congress AND WE STILL HAVE ABORTION. Turn the friggin’ record over. Rick needs to get his head out of his a** and run for President of this nation not our national Priest.

[Taxachusan]

As a Northerner I have to sigh when I say, “Thank God for the South.”.

I was going to say something similar, lol, but will ask because it IS the south...How the heck is Romney double digits ahead of Rick?

[chimera]

Well, I'm just saying, Gingrich would be a good choice if it comes to that. We need good, smart people in positions of the government where they can make a difference, there's a lot of damage that has to be repaired. If we can pull this off, i.e., beat Obama (which I think will be very, very tough) then we need the best people we can get working to fix things. I don't what idiots who will screw around and squander whatever opportunity we have to make things right again. For all his faults, I don't see anyone else out there who has the smarts and ability to get things done that Gingrich has. I wish it were otherwise (i.e., we had the “perfect” candidate, smart, attractive, free of baggage, experienced and capable), but it doesn't seem to be the hand we've been dealt this time. So let's make the best of it, get the best people we can positioned to achieve the main goal: send Obama packing.

[cripplecreek]

Typical attack Chihuahua yapping.

[alstewartfan]

Great job Newt! Hand the nomination to Romney. You should be very proud. At least you and Mitt see eye to eye on individual mandates, TARP and global warming! True conservatives!

[GracieOMalley]

Today’s Rasmussen shows it to be a much closer race. Turnout will be the key:

“A Rasmussen Poll of Alabama shows a dead heat: Gingrich at 30 percent, Santorum at 29 and Romney at 28.”

[alstewartfan]

Yeah, and that’s the end of the road for both him and Santorum if he wins. There is no other rational opinion about this. I have lost all respect for Newt. To allow this socialist fiend to win the nomination is deplorable, and frankly, anti-conservative. Good-bye America.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

There is no such thing as a “soft” delegate. It is a term used on election night, showing a projection of the potential outcome before the official results are final.

Once the official count is certified, the delegates are officially awarded to the candidate as a “Hard” delegate. A “soft” delegate is a fictitious/hypothetical term. “Hard” delegate is an actual, factual result.

[RitaOK]

Let’s bet whose yap gets the bone, in the end. Shall we?

Rick is working the ropes for the Establishment players. He always has, and always will, soon to be seen carrying the water for Romney when this ends.

In-his-best-blue-vest.

(Blue— for union states.)

[Red Steel]

Ummmm Gracieeee....that’s an Alabama poll where - Newt is winning - and this is a Mississippi poll where Newt is winning too.

[GracieOMalley]

Thanks for pointing that out.

Say Goodnight, Gracie....(George Burns and Gracie Allen).