Posted on 03/09/2012 11:35:16 AM PST by Steelfish
The winner.
Go Newt!
Gobble up those unpledged delegates before Romney does!
If Gingrich takes the South and Texas, I don’t think there will be a winner. It will be a contested convention.
You are correct that the national media will talk about KS all weekend. It is also correct that Newt will blanket local media in AL and MS and explain why he is doing as he is doing. He cares about the South and shares a cultural closeness with Southern Americans that gives him a likeability factor there that Romney and Santorum simply don’t share.
This angle of being a ‘regional’ candidate is only as strong as the individual candidate’s ability to make a case across all the regions. Romney won Michigan, Massachusetts, Vermont, all states we could lose in the general and still win the presidency. No way we win if we can’t take Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama. Romney took Florida only because of a coordinated media attack on Newt together with the establishment GOP last month on ‘Black Thursday’. Romney’s strength in the primarys is contrived. Santorum cannot defeat Newt head-on in those states.
The AL and MS results are crucial and in a tough situation, worth going after, even at the near-term expense of Kansas.
Why, they are not winner take all states??? Current count here: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57394486-503544/long-tough-delegate-battle-lies-ahead-for-gop-candidates/
I hope it works, but Santorum has created a bigtime campaign out of the tiniest and most insignificant (numerically speaking) wins. He wins the tiny Saturday thing and for some reason it impacts the big Tuesday things. Amazing how folks in this country do not have any grasp of demographic reality.
None. But I hope it does work.
Perhaps. However, it has been my observation in following politics for almost 50 years that withdrawing resources is almost always a sign of concesssion. If MS and AL were the prize along, why did Newt put resources in KS to begin with?
Sorry, I meant “ALL along”
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