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Who's Going to Win Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri Today?

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Santorum now has won four states to Romney's three. I think this goes back to the poll I saw that said 47% of Romney's own supporters want someone else.

Also wasn't the turn out for these three states way way below the turn out in 08? The base is not turning out which could be very bad for the reps in nov. Their hopes of gaining seats in the Senate and keeping the House could be in jeopardy.
 
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Although, I didn't make it clear in my OP, that's why I was wondering about the caucuses being more suseptable to "infiltration" by evangels as opposed to a public primary.
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I could be very wrong never voted in a caucus. But I think the process is more of a pain in the butt and takes much longer than going in and just voting. So those who go to a caucus are more hardcore in their beliefs. That would explain why hardcore canidates do much better in a caucus.
 
Democrat math. Romney has 115 delegates, Santorum has 34. Romney has more delegates then the rest of the candidates combined. It's in the bag and all but over. What you are seeing are the social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, Paul supporters etc. making sure that Romney doesn't take the various groups in the Republican party for granted. Nothing to get too excited about except typical Republican/Democrat politics as usual.
 
Thanks for the reminder-I almost forgot my daily routine of googling Santorum and clicking upon the appropriate link. Got keep it up to the top, you know.
 
Wow, after Santorums recent debates I wouldn't have expected him to suddenly surge. Some of these numbers are coming in extremely low - where the heck are all the votes? Under a rug somewhere?

These polls are such a joke.

edit: The only people I know who support Santorum are (most of) the old guys at a machine shop my friend works at. They'll openly tell you they support him because they don't like gays or muslims. Apparently they feel he is on the same page.
 
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Wow, after Santorums recent debates I wouldn't have expected him to suddenly surge. Some of these numbers are coming in extremely low - where the heck are all the votes? Under a rug somewhere?

These polls are such a joke.

edit: The only people I know who support Santorum are (most of) the old guys at a machine shop my friend works at. They'll openly tell you they support him because they don't like gays or muslims. Apparently they feel he is on the same page.
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it's the whole caucus system. it's kind of retarded and overwhelmingly favors candidates who's supporters are on the fringe (and motivated enough to devote hours of their night to sitting around a room just to vote in a non-binding contest)
 
I was correct in all my predictions. I am the soothsayer of these boards. I have a new prediction. Romney shall win Maine. And so TalonStrike says it, and so it shall be done.
 
JTsyo said:
Is the VP nomination likely going to go to the #2 guy?
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probably not, but this could make Romney tempted to make the Sarah Palin Choice -- picking a VP who can appeal to the GOP base and drive voter turnout up while crossing your fingers that they don't alienate swing voters too much.

generally speaking, VP's don't have much significant positive impact on a ticket, but have had negative impact (see: Sarah Palin).
 
Santorum made an interesting and valid point about these victories of his: he hasn't been peppered with lots of negative ads in those states. Yet he still wins in spite of being underfunded. Negative ads don't work, or so say some people. This primary, all the way through, has clearly demonstrated the contrary.
 
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Santorum should win because he is more the model in your face corrupt candidate. There is no point in being sneaky about it. I still think republicans should just start nominating mafia dons and big megabank CEOs. The idiot masses will fall in line.
 
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Santorum made an interesting and valid point about these victories of his: he hasn't be peppered with lots of negative ads in those states. Yet he still wins in spite of being underfunded. Negative ads don't work, or so say some people. This primary, all the way through, has clearly demonstrated the contrary.
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negative ads almost always work. I just think maybe the machine paid a blind eye towards Santorum as it focused on assaulting Gingrich.

Santorum skipped Florida and Nevada and focused all his energy into these three states, which Romney all but ignored. I don't think he'll ever have that advantage again after yesterday.
 
The surge of Santorum is due mostly to... low turnout, given the underwhelming support among the base for Romney & Newt.

Rick explains the collapse of the housing bubble to the faithful fringewhacks in Colorado Springs-

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/

Yep, it was the price of gas! Really!

So the answer is to ... deregulate the energy market, obviously, let everybody do what international speculators accomplished in the summer of 2008...

It's a whole different world down in the Springs, where the money comes from the military, military retirements, and the Christian Right, but they're anti-gubmint, bet on that...
 
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I don't really know we all had our white sheets and hoods on .
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LMAO!!!

I can't think of anything Obama could do (or at least anything that Obama WOULD do) to make me vote for him, but the Pubbies are a different story. If Santorum is the nominee I WILL vote for Obama, even though Gary Johnson is pretty much my ideal candidate ever. It seems to be in fashion for American Presidents to start wars now, but a war on gay Americans is a bit much.

No government can ever be limited government if it holds the power to control whom you may or may not marry.
 
woolfe9999 said:
Santorum made an interesting and valid point about these victories of his: he hasn't been peppered with lots of negative ads in those states. Yet he still wins in spite of being underfunded. Negative ads don't work, or so say some people. This primary, all the way through, has clearly demonstrated the contrary.
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I agree with Loki, negative ads almost always work as long as you get your facts straight and don't go completely overboard. And while I can grudgingly award a point to Santorum for his clean campaign, it's worth pointing out that he benefits from having two candidates bludgeoning each other with negative ads, so Santorum has the luxury of running a clean campaign.
 
Republicans already lost. They lost months ago, it's hilarious. I really wonder if it was done on purpose or if they're really that dysfunctional.
 
In iOwa, Santorum stood arm in arm with the most racist anti everything American nut jobs available. Arm in arm!
But it's the dead baby thing that turned my stomach.
I want to know why the DHS child services hasn't gone after him for child abuse?
#1. Abusing a corpse. #2. Trauma imposed onto his living children.
The Santorum dead baby thing just illustrates how severely dysfunctional the religious extremist actually are.
And people vote for this guy????? Amazingly insane!
Some people... they know not what they do.....
 
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