GOTV Primaries in Wisconsin and Maryland Poll Hours:7:00 AM-8:00 PM Vote for Rick Santorum

My Time To Vote. Com ^ | April 3, 2012 | steelers6

[Steelers6]

Poll hours are the same in each place for their time zones. In 2008 Wisconsin had turnout of 402,000 (McCain 54 Huckabee 36 and Paul 5, Romney 2, others 3 (McCain won 34 of 40 Delegates and Maryland 320,000 (McCain 55, Huckabee 29, Paul 6, Romney 7) McCain won all 37 delegates

[Steelers6]

I know DC is voting 6,200 voted in 2008 primary and McCain won 68 to Huckabee 16, Paul 8, and Romney had 6. You can vote for Newt or Ron Paul if you don't want to vote for Romney, Santorum is not on the DC ballot today

[sauropod]

I will NOT vote for Santorum, no matter if he is on the ballot or not.

[battlecry]

8:45 Lynbrook, Bethesda. Deserted. One more vote for the Newtster and his delegates.

[celmak]

"I will NOT vote for Santorum, no matter if he is on the ballot or not."

Yeppers, split the Conservative vote. Gee, wonder who wins on that one?

[celmak]

"One more vote for the Newtster..."

... and one more vote for what amounts to a vote for [Tw]itt.

[icwhatudo]

I’ll be voting for Rick in about an hour. He is not perfect but he is the only candidate with any chance of beating Romney or taking large numbers of delegates away from him. Newt has basically quit the race letting go of 1/3 of his staff. Even if people think Newt is better, he is not even competing anymore! Newt remaining in the race only divides the conservative vote. He needs to stop having secret meetings with Romney and start working with Rick.

[conservative98]

Santo is the cause of this. If he would have gotten out and not split the vote earlier on after South Carolina, it would have been a two man race.

[Kenny]

Santo is the cause of this. If he would have gotten out and not split the vote earlier on after South Carolina, it would have been a two man race.

Seriously? I don't buy that anyone actually believes that. Santorum is the ONLY reason that Romney's not already crowned.

And he needs WI to continue to block Romney.

[joe fonebone]

wonder who wins??? lessee here, either the white version of fubo, or the bushes 4th term big government type person... or the mean old dude that started and led a conservative revolution... no more communists, no more bushes.. period... after holding my nose since 1988, I will hold it no longer...

[American Constitutionalist]

Actually, Newt more or less unofficially endorsed Mitt Romney yesterday while he was in Maryland and is hoping that Mitt Romney would adopt his Gingrich platform.... however ? there was a secret meeting between the two just before LA, and it's not beyond the stretch that Newt offered Romney his endorsement if Romney were to pay off his debt.
Newt is selling himself to the highest bidder... sold out his supporters.

[throwback]

It is truly amazing isn’t it? Some of us just refuse to accept that we’re in the minority in this country. I would probably consider myself a minority based on my religious beliefs and affiliation more than anything. These days I think that group is to the Republican party as blacks are to the Democrat party. The Republicans know we don’t have anywhere else to go, so we’ll be getting Romney type candidates forever. They’re telling us it’s time to shut up and move to the back of the bus. With Romney, we’re back to Bush term #3 - a better managed decline.

[conservative98]

He is one of the main reasons. Santo supporters are saying ONLY Newt is splitting the conservative vote. But they forget Santorum and many otheres were doing it earlier on. You all should have gotten behind Newt when he was up 30%. But Newt wasn’t a true conservative to you and now you are stuck with Romney. Thank you very very much.

[conservative98]

"I will NOT vote for Santorum, no matter if he is on the ballot or not." I won't either unless he makes a deal very quickly with Newt which of course he won't because it is all about Santo's ego. Santo doesn't care if Romney is the nominee away as he said he was a true conservative. This is all about Santo and future elections for Santo.

[Abby4116]

This is all about Santo and future elections for Santo.

This Marylander voted for Newt last week (as well as all of Newt's delegates, 2 alternates - 1 Perry delegate since only 2 alternates for Newt on the ballot).

It felt GOOD to be able to vote for whom I wanted, unlike 2008 when only McCain and Romney were on the MD ballot).

[AmericanInTokyo]

Conservative98

Sign Update Date: JANUARY 10 2012

Mornin' to ya, TROLL.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I will NOT vote for Santorum, no matter if he is on the ballot or not.

FINE.

And neither will an overwhelming majority of LIBERALS, COMMUNISTS, ATHEISTS and HOMOSEXUALS.

Have fun with your company, friend. You are one vote anyway. Don't much matter here nor there anywho.....

[Guenevere]

Rick Santorum...and his wonderful family, especially Karen, his wife have graciously, intelligently, honestly pursued a genuine love for this country and have been in the running 24/7 since June of last year.

They are one of the finest examples of who we SHOULD have in our White House that I have seen in a long time.

The fact that these good, Godly people continue to smile graciously and admit to praying for those who say things against them...

...are a testament to their character!!

..if ANY of you had to wade through daily onslaughts of ridicule, hate and ugliness from the media and here at Free Republic I don't think you would last a day!

...and yet many of you gleefully wake up each morning and can't wait to attack the Santorums from your keyboard

I have been sadly surprised and achingly disappointed in many here who I had thought 'conservative'....

For many years I have thought Freepers 'like minded' in conservatism and goals....

...but having waded through cesspools of posters' vulgarity, innuendo, ridicule against the ONE conservative left standing.........RICK SANTORUM

I realize I was not only mistaken.....but very naive.

I thought belonging to this site automatically meant going towards the same goal, even as an independent, libertarian or conservative.

I am ashamed of certain people on this site who go for blood each and every day.

We are standing at the brink!!!.... a moment in time when we COULD turn this nation around for good, for glory... again....

I pray Sovereign God will honor the efforts of those working toward this.

His will be done.

[Kenny]

You all should have gotten behind Newt when he was up 30%.

I got behind Newt as did many others until he fell flat on his face. Once the writing was on the wall, I went with Santorum to stop Romney. You should do the same.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Already to be coronated RINO ROMNEY is retreating from his earlier, most hard line position on ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. He took a page from John McCain's book in 2008. Run to the extreme right on this especially in South Carolina, etc. until away from those early primaries, in a safe zone, they slowly extract oneself from the previous positions. NUMBERS USA should be apoplectic and downgrade his "report card" NOW! Tactic is: Reduce and then stop giving speeches mentioning it, revise website statements, and gradually work up to the pandering speech to La Raza for the General where "regularization" will be offered as a solution to the problem. Anyone who has Immigration as a top issue and did not see this Etch A Sketch Reboot coming has less marbles that I would imagine they would have. Not to smart. Folks need to cast votes for Santorum today in those three elections to slow this Mitt down and embarrass him and the MSM and GOP elite, particularly in Wisconsin. Do not get fatigued!! Now is the time to get a second wind and tell the GOP-e to shove it, that it is not inevitable. They wanted to wear down our will. Rick is campaigning tirelessly against Rommey. The least we could do is cast a vote, make a call remotely, or send in some cash for the May battles.

[deport]

DC, 7am - 8pm edt, closed primary, winner take all, 16 delegates

MD, 7am - 8pm edt, closed primary, winner take all CD and statewide, 34 delegates

WI, 7am - 8pm cdt, open primary, winner take all CD and statewide, 39 delegates

Note: the three party delegates aren’t included in each state/DC as they are unbound.

[Lazlo in PA]

If he would have gotten out and not split the vote earlier on after South Carolina, it would have been a two man race.

You don't have on shred of evidence to prove that and you know it. Newt was the vote splitter after he imploded in FL. Just look at the election results.

Rick Green, Newt Purple, Milt Orange, Paul Yellow.

Not a whole lot of purple nationwide, is there? Newt split the vote by running in 90% of these races and coming in 3rd or 4th keeping Rick a point or two shy of winning against Romney. Now he is jumping on the Romney bandwagon after he squandered all of his Adelson money. Someone who is also comfortable with Romney.

[Lazlo in PA]

Santorum for President Ping List.

FReepmail “Antoninus” to be added or removed.

[throwback]

I’m probably still with you. I wish Santorum would win today in WI, but I think the ABO vote is kicking in. He clearly had it for a time in places like CO, but the establishment and some of Rick’s willingness to answer stupid questions blew him up. Romney will be a lousy candidate, but the Supreme Court may help him a lot by taking Obamacare off the radar. If the Republican do get control of 2 branches of government, I fully expect them to do nothing to really change anything beyond working around the edges again. Maybe we’ll get incandescent bulbs back!

[Sun]

Voter turn out is EVERYTHING!

I was reading that Obama won the General Election by something like 7 million votes, and there were around 16 million Evangelicals, who were eligible to vote, but did NOT.

Don’t know if I have the numbers exactly right, but it’s pretty close to that amount.

VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!

[WaterWeWaitinFor]

Since I can’t make purple the color of the day here in WI, please make it GREEN with Santorum.

It’s a sad day when we have to settle like this. Is this the best the GOP can put up? We see here in WI with the terrific Gov. Scott Walker doing a fabulous job elected in 2010 and performed as a true conservative - he has been recalled by the likes of the smarmy lefty bunch with the help of the Obama White House team / union nation thugs and it ain’t over till it’s over in June. We hear rumors that the national union thugs will spend at least $40 million dollars to try to wipe out our Governor who’s Act 10 reforms have saved millions in WI, just as he promised. THAT’s how a conservative victor is treated by the scummy lefties.

So please, please folks - this is our generation’s duty to save this great Republic from ruin. Let’s do it - get out and vote.

[samtheman]

Mornin' to ya, TROLL.

I hate it when newbies post articles and I hate it when newbies try to browbeat long-time FReepers.

I just think it shows poor taste, bad breeding and a fundamental lack of common sense.

[samtheman]

I got behind Newt as did many others until he fell flat on his face.

It's true. He really did.

In the first pre-Florida debate he looked very, very bad. And this was the guy who was supposed to be the Debate King.

I didn't watch the second pre-Florida debate, but I heard he wasn't much better then either.

For a guy whose whole argument (at the time, anyway) was "I can debate Obama" to flub up the way he did... well, you know, I really do like Gingrich, like him a lot, like him better than I like Santorum, that's for sure... but I have to call it the way I see it and the way I see it is you are right, Kenny. You are right.

Gingrich fell flat on his face.

[Catsrus]

After Perry dropped out, I, too, was for Newt. Then he imploded during the Florida debates, and I saw the handwriting on the wall. I then supported Santorum. Newt did fall flat on his face, and I think his big ole ego did him in.

[Catsrus]

After Perry dropped out, I, too, was for Newt. Then he imploded during the Florida debates, and I saw the handwriting on the wall. I then supported Santorum. Newt did fall flat on his face, and I think his big ole ego did him in.

[Mountain Mary]

OMG, Guenie.

What a wonderful post. I’ve been equally disappointed and shocked at the vitriolic posts of some Freepers who don’t know one blessed thing about Rick Santorum or his family.
These shallow, small minded Freepers hide behind a screen name and spew their hate filled rhetoric only because they are anonymous
Face to face, they would fold like cheap tents..bullies all, no substance behind the message.

I met 13 members of the Duggar family last night, G.
They are here from Arkansas to campaign for Rick...They ride around in a huge bus with RICK SANTORUM FOR PRESIDENT written on the side.
What a special family!

All of Ricks’ supporters are the same; Conservative, caring, principled, value centered, people of deep faith and core convictions.

I am proud to be on the team. Jim Bob Duggar told me last night that if Rick doesn’t win the nomination, it’s because he is too good for our nation. I agree.

[Sun]

When casting their vote in the primaries, voters need to know what Rick Santorum stated when he was on Fox News Sunday: A Republican hasn’t won an election, against a Democrat incumbent in 120 YEARS, EXCEPT FOR RONALD REAGAN, A CONSERVATIVE.

Vote for the viable CONSERVATIVE - Rick Santorum!

[darrellmaurina]

Guenevere is right.

We have too much bashing going on between Santorum and Gingrich supporters.

If you live in Washington, D.C., vote for Gingrich. I know I would. Maybe a miracle will happen and he'll win a race that Romney isn't paying attention to winning, and shock the “inevitability” out of Romney.

If you live in Wisconsin, the best way to stop Romney is probably to vote for Santorum. If you believe you can't do that, I'll respect your conscience. However, Wisconsin is likely to have a major effect on the next few states, and if Romney wins decisively it will cause major problems down the road, and may make it difficult for Santorum or Gingrich to be viable candidates down the road in more conservative states like Pennsylvania and Texas.

In Maryland it probably doesn't make a difference which candidate you vote for since Romney is likely to win no matter what.

Can't we all agree on Free Republic that we need to defeat Romney if we want to have the best chance of defeating Obama? Those need to be our short-term and long-term goals.

[Mangia E Statti Zitto]

Since Wisconsin is an open primary, I would not be surprised at all to see a Santorum win. Doesn’t he get a lot of Democrat crossover votes?

PS: As a Newt supporter, thank you for encouraging Santorum supporters in DC to vote for Newt. Very classy of you!

[Sola Veritas]

“Since Wisconsin is an open primary, I would not be surprised at all to see a Santorum win. Doesn’t he get a lot of Democrat crossover votes?”

Actually and seriously, I believe most cross over votes have been evenly split between Romney and the others.

There are some Dems that are socially conservative....they are dems because of family tradition. I could see some of them voting for Santorum. However, I doubt it will be a significant amount to make a difference. Also, most Dems that would vote for Santorum in a primary, would also vote for him in a general election. The Romney crossovers will not...they are attempting to wreck any chance of a conservative GOP nominee.

[darrellmaurina]

Thank you for your thanks.

I strongly believe that Santorum and Gingrich are on the same team, and when one has a chance of winning a particular state and the other does not, the goal needs to be to deny Romney a win by backing the candidate with the best chance. Sometimes that's Santorum, sometimes it's Gingrich.

I fear Romney is on the wrong team entirely based on past history of flip-flopping.

[RecoveringPaulisto]

Note: Even if you add Newt and Santorum’s votes together in FL and NV, Romney still would have beat Gingrich. The same cannot be said for many of Santorum’s close losses.

I was behind Gingrich from SC through the Santorum Trifecta. The Trifecta showed the race had come down to Santorum and Romney. Ever since then, Gingrich has only stood in the way of Santorum’s momentum, gobbling up just enough votes in key states to cause Santorum to lose.

Super Tuesday would have been 6-4 Santorum without Gingrich in the race, and 4 or 5 of those Santorum wins would have been blowouts, and Romney’s wins insignificant blips on the radar (ID, MA, VA, VT). This whole race would have been different with a united conservative front in the races after the Trifecta. Instead of Santorum trying desperately for a “comeback kid” moment in WI, MD would be the battleground tonight with Romney on his heels.