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Super Tuesday, 06 Mar 2012

All eyes are on Ohio, but all the other little states matter for "state victory count" image.

If Gingrich drops out or becomes irrelevant, that becomes a huge plus for Santorum.

I can just hear the White House now chanting "Go Rick! Go Rick!" - with polls show as much as 30% of white women voters shifting from Democrat to Republican over Santorum's anti-contraception rants.
 
Zyphlin said:
When an "unelectable", "not serious", "extreme", "crazy" candidate like Ron Paul is a viable enough alternative to Romney to garner 40% of the vote in a "moderate" state like Virginia it tells you something major about the enthusiasm around Romney, his ability to excite the base into voting, and be embraced.
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Hehe, I voted Ron Paul. Anything to slow Romney down.
 
Zyphlin said:
When an "unelectable", "not serious", "extreme", "crazy" candidate like Ron Paul is a viable enough alternative to Romney to garner 40% of the vote in a "moderate" state like Virginia it tells you something major about the enthusiasm around Romney, his ability to excite the base into voting, and be embraced.
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Oh, if Romney wins, I'm voting 3rd party. If Paul runs third party I'll vote for him, otherwise I'm voting Mickey Mouse or some obscure libertarian third party.
 
Zyphlin said:
When an "unelectable", "not serious", "extreme", "crazy" candidate like Ron Paul is a viable enough alternative to Romney to garner 40% of the vote in a "moderate" state like Virginia it tells you something major about the enthusiasm around Romney, his ability to excite the base into voting, and be embraced.
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And with the Northeast giving Santorum the finger as the South and Midwest curses Romney, the real outcome tonight is known. Super Tuesday goes in the Obama column.

If moderate independents won't vote for Santorum and conservative independents won't vote for Romney, Obama wins. That's easy to figure out.
 
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Republic Now! said:
Oh, if Romney wins, I'm voting 3rd party. If Paul runs third party I'll vote for him, otherwise I'm voting Mickey Mouse or some obscure libertarian third party.
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President Obama wishes to thank you.
 
Ohio is within 2-3k votes. Insanely close.
 
AdamT said:
I know, but still.... What it suggests to me is that if Gingrich or Santorum drop out, most of their support will go to the one who stays in.
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I've heard tale of tin-foil conspiracy theories that Gingrich is getting funded by his vegas billionaire to stay in the race with the provision that he not attack Romney just to siphon votes away from Santorum. Gingrich and Santorum are fighting for the evangelical conservative votes and they are splitting it. Gingrich knows this which is why he said after the SC win that Santorum should drop out so that he could beat Romney.
 
Zyphlin said:
When an "unelectable", "not serious", "extreme", "crazy" candidate like Ron Paul is a viable enough alternative to Romney to garner 40% of the vote in a "moderate" state like Virginia it tells you something major about the enthusiasm around Romney, his ability to excite the base into voting, and be embraced.
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I think Paul's policies are more sane than the other three being that whether or not I agree with his policies, his policies are specifically fixed within our borders and not so much outside and on stupid social issues as much.
 
poweRob said:
I've heard tale of tin-foil conspiracy theories that Gingrich is getting funded by his vegas billionaire to stay in the race with the provision that he not attack Romney just to siphon votes away from Santorum. Gingrich and Santorum are fighting for the evangelical conservative votes and they are splitting it. Gingrich knows this which is why he said after the SC win that Santorum should drop out so that he could beat Romney.
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Lol, I like how that logic doesn't apply for him anymore.
 
joko104 said:
President Obama wishes to thank you.
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Actually, America wishes to thank him for voting his principles so that we know what he wants of his government rather than being so chicken-shyte scared that he voted for a lesser of two evils.
 
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poweRob said:
Actually, America wishes to thank him for voting his principles so that we know at least he isn't so scared that he voted for a lesser of two evils.
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Yeah, like that makes sense.
 
CNN shows less than 1K spread online. i bet Santorum really doesn't like Gingrich right now with his 15%. If Santorum could cut a VP or some other administration slot deal with Gingrich, Santorum could win it.
 
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joko104 said:
Yeah, like that makes sense.
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Right...

Your philosophy is "By God I will vote for what I don't want because I want that other one less!!!1!!1!!1111!!!"

Makes no sense at all.
 
Republic Now! said:
Lead by example joko
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That's funny. Your committing to vote for any unknown person who can't win of unknown stances on anything out of "principle." Yeah, that's being a leader.
 
Romney is shooting ahead
 
poweRob said:
Right...

Your philosophy is "By God I will vote for what I don't want because I want that other one less!!!1!!1!!1111!!!"

Makes no sense at all.
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It makes perfect sense, actually. I too do not see a magic candidate, but I prefer one to the other.
 
joko104 said:
That's funny. Your committing to vote for any unknown person who can't win of unknown stances on anything out of "principle." Yeah, that's being a leader.
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Uh, never said they would be unknown stances. I'll research their stances before I vote for them. If I don't like anyone, I'm voting for Mickey Mouse.
 
poweRob said:
Right...

Your philosophy is "By God I will vote for what I don't want because I want that other one less!!!1!!1!!1111!!!"

Makes no sense at all.
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Why do you vote? SRYL. It is always voting for the lesser or more, depending which way you look at it from.

Oh, wait, that's right. Paul is God himself and God is perfection. I think that's your point, isn't it? Its always been known that hard core Paul supporters aren't Republican, so they are either a full bad-loser-tantrum vote for Obama or I-hate-American-democracy half a vote for Obama.
 
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Fiddytree said:
It makes perfect sense, actually. I too do not see a magic candidate, but I prefer one to the other.
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I'll vote for someone I agree with even if they're not the ideal. I'm not going to vote for one of two evils since I don't really care which one wins.
 
Republic Now! said:
Uh, never said they would be unknown stances. I'll research their stances before I vote for them. If I don't like anyone, I'm voting for Mickey Mouse.
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Are you related?
 
joko104 said:
Why do you vote? SRYL. It is always voting for the lesser or more, depending which way you look at it from.

Oh, wait, that's right. Paul is God himself and God is perfection. I think that's your point, isn't it? Its always been known that hard core Paul supporters aren't Republican, so they are either a full bad-loser-tantrum vote for Obama or I-hate-American-democracy half a vote for Obama.
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There's the third kind of Paul supporter: the Democrat who thinks he the honorable conservative, but would not vote for him or support him (would probably demonize him once he got in power).
 
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