Posted on 03/18/2012 10:14:19 PM PDT by VinL
Mitt Romney is headed for a blowout victory in Illinois on Tuesday. He leads with 45% to 30% for Rick Santorum, 12% for Newt Gingrich, and 10% for Ron Paul.
Romney's particularly strong among voters who live in suburban areas (50-29) and with those who live in urban areas (46-23). But he's even running slightly ahead of Santorum, 38-36, with folks who identify as living in rural parts and that strength with a group of voters he hasn't tended to do that well with is why he's looking at such a lopsided margin of victory.
Romney tends to win moderates in most states and Santorum usually win voters describing themselves as 'very conservative.' The swing group in the Republican electorate is those identifying as just 'somewhat conservative.' Romney is winning those folks by a whooping 60-20 margin in Illinois. Romney's also benefiting from a 52-28 advantage with seniors. We've tended to find Santorum a lot more popular with voters even in states that Romney has won over the last six weeks, but that's not the case in Illinois. Romney's favorability is 57/34, about par for the course of where we've found him this year. Santorum's at only 55/36, much worse numbers than we've seen for him most places in the last couple months, and suggesting that GOP voters are starting to sour on him a little bit.
Santorum's winning the group he tends to do well with- Tea Partiers, Evangelicals, and those describing themselves as 'very conservative.' But he's not winning them by the kinds of wide margins he would need to take an overall victory- he's up only 8 with Tea Party voters and 10 with Evangelicals, groups he needs to win by more like 25 points with to hope to win in a northern state. Santorum can't blame Gingrich for his troubles in Illinois either. If Newt was out Romney would still have an 11 point advantage on Santorum, 45-34.
To pay off a trillion at at billion dollars a second will not as you claim take a mere 16.67 minutes what ever the hell that is . A billion seconds equals 31 years. My decimal point was in the wrong place and the figure was wrong it isn’t 9.955 years it’s 10.years 4 months .Thank you for calling that to my attention
A successful civil war (or world war, since the left dominates worldwide politics) won by non-leftists is the only way to, completely, end the ongoing domination of politics by the left. No civil war=victory for the left. The left, always, wins, when the final major candidates for POTUS is between a leftist and a RINO, and the left, still, has its moments, whenever the final GOP POTUS candidate is a “Big Government Conservative”! RR was the last POTUS that’s closest to what the majority of conservatives really want in a president. Frustrating!
What is one trillion divided by one billion?
How many times does one billion go into one trillion?
What is 1,000,000,000,000 divided by 1,000,000,000?
What is 1 to the 12th power divided by 1 to the 9th power?
How many seconds will it take to pay off a trillion dollar debt if you pay it off at the rate of one billion dollars a second?
(Hint: all these questions have the same answer.)
The same reason Dole did?
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