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Race Now Over

cpwill

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Current reporting is that Romney has won both Mississippi and Alabama by respectable margins. If that holds true, then this race is (un)officially done - Santorum will not be able to maintain the argument that he is a legitimate counter to Romney if he can't even win the Bible Belt.


Santorum (ugh) should at that point drop out of the race, or at least pour no more resources into attacking Romney, who will at that point be the GOP's nominee. Conservatives wishing to moan and b---h about having another squishy moderate/liberal as our Party's standard bearer (and I am one of them) are free to console ourselves with the fact that we had a chance to change that, and we appear to have elected not to do so.
 
To be fair Romney had name recognition from '08, a good organization already in place, and a lot of money. Santorum had none of those things, and may be a more serious contender in '16 if he chooses to run again (and presuming Romney does not win).

Gingrich as we all know was never serious about the nomination, only running to up his speaking fees and give himself free advertising for books, etc.
 
so the gop went from a 82% failure probability to a 100%.

figured after kerry and mcain they would realize the safe bet never wins.
 
I will wait for official results, but if your claim is accurate that would be the beginning of the end for sure.
 
This race was over before the first Iowan went into a caucus.
 
This race was over before the first Iowan went into a caucus.

No it was not. Several candidates had a chance to win.

Does any one else find it amusing that the more certain people try and push the republican party to the right, the more republican voters pick moderates?
 
i absolutely hate obama,but ill probably vote for either him or third party,atleast with obama i know what hes done and will do,romney is a guessing game as to what hed morph into.
 
Current reporting is that Romney has won both Mississippi and Alabama by respectable margins. If that holds true, then this race is (un)officially done - Santorum will not be able to maintain the argument that he is a legitimate counter to Romney if he can't even win the Bible Belt.


Santorum (ugh) should at that point drop out of the race, or at least pour no more resources into attacking Romney, who will at that point be the GOP's nominee. Conservatives wishing to moan and b---h about having another squishy moderate/liberal as our Party's standard bearer (and I am one of them) are free to console ourselves with the fact that we had a chance to change that, and we appear to have elected not to do so.

The "current reporting" that is not actually linked to turns out to be full of ****.
 
Current reporting is that Romney has won both Mississippi and Alabama by respectable margins. If that holds true, then this race is (un)officially done - Santorum will not be able to maintain the argument that he is a legitimate counter to Romney if he can't even win the Bible Belt.


Santorum (ugh) should at that point drop out of the race, or at least pour no more resources into attacking Romney, who will at that point be the GOP's nominee. Conservatives wishing to moan and b---h about having another squishy moderate/liberal as our Party's standard bearer (and I am one of them) are free to console ourselves with the fact that we had a chance to change that, and we appear to have elected not to do so.

Polls haven't even closed, so it doesn't matter at all!
 
Romney isn't ****.
 
well just checked and nearly all claims romney was way ahead were based on less than 1% votes counted.no full results yet but whats been counted so far shows all three tided is mississipi and santorum ahead in alabama.
 
8% done in Miss, and Rick is leading!
 
well just checked and nearly all claims romney was way ahead were based on less than 1% votes counted.no full results yet but whats been counted so far shows all three tided is mississipi and santorum ahead in alabama.

And that had more relevance than the claim in the OP< which was based on 0 % in. Lesson learned: when some one claims something is being reported but offers no source, it's bull****.
 
And that had more relevance than the claim in the OP< which was based on 0 % in. Lesson learned: when some one claims something is being reported but offers no source, it's bull****.

No offence to cpwill, but I agree!
 
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This thread is misleading. Santorum is pulling a Tim Tebow at the moment.
 
a quick search on google shows he is right,but based on less than 1%,some of the reports showed romney with a 40% lead with than 30 votes counted.

ive seen it before in past elections especially in local news,people want to vote a winner,so if someone presents a winner with almost no votes counted,those still voting with the im gonna change my football team every year cuz i cant back a loser will switch votes so they can brag about backing a winner,definately not enough of them to throw any normal election but in a tight race you know the media is going to throw their influence nto the race.
 
i absolutely hate obama,but ill probably vote for either him or third party,atleast with obama i know what hes done and will do,romney is a guessing game as to what hed morph into.

Obama is the worst possible choice if you understand how federal judges are appointed
 
Obama is the worst possible choice if you understand how federal judges are appointed

but if its an obama vs romney its basically liberal vs liberal,the incumbent liberal atleast i know what he stands for and every corrupt thing hes done,romney would be a guessing game,no one can tell with that guy,obama served some flip flops but romney and kerry are co owners of the house of flip flops!

if you cant stick to your own grounds and say what people want you to say,ill stick with failure,because that failure is proven but romney is unproven,we could remove failure for extreme failure.
 
a quick search on google shows he is right,but based on less than 1%,some of the reports showed romney with a 40% lead with than 30 votes counted.

ive seen it before in past elections especially in local news,people want to vote a winner,so if someone presents a winner with almost no votes counted,those still voting with the im gonna change my football team every year cuz i cant back a loser will switch votes so they can brag about backing a winner,definately not enough of them to throw any normal election but in a tight race you know the media is going to throw their influence nto the race.

The original post was made before any precincts reported.
 
Now with 65% in Miss., Romney's a close third. But it's essentially a 3 way tie - Santorum 33%, Gingrich 31%, Romney 30%.

I think a 3 way in Miss. is a win for Romney, though. (I think a 3 way with three men might be illegal too...)
 
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but if its an obama vs romney its basically liberal vs liberal,the incumbent liberal atleast i know what he stands for and every corrupt thing hes done,romney would be a guessing game,no one can tell with that guy,obama served some flip flops but romney and kerry are co owners of the house of flip flops!

if you cant stick to your own grounds and say what people want you to say,ill stick with failure,because that failure is proven but romney is unproven,we could remove failure for extreme failure.

that's a really stupid position. Hard core social and financial conservatives like Richard Farmer-the guy who owns CINTAS and the Lindners-billionaires in Cincinnati are backing Romney because they believe he has the best economics background and is most able to turn the economy around. Rob Portman has also endorsed Romney as Has Eric Cantor. These people realize that ancillary and silly stuff like abortion, gay rights etc is meaningless if the country is bankrupt.

Judges, district and Appellate are picked by the leaders of the party that has the presidency at the state level

FOr example, if Romney, Santorum, Newt or Paul were to become president, Rob Portman's office would be the main decider on who would be a district judge in Ohio or a 6th Circuit Court of Appeal judge sitting in Ohio.

As to supreme court justices, the White House counsel along with people such as Peter Keisler and STeven calabresi (Federalist Society leadership) will play a major role no matter which GOPer is president
 
Too early to know. Absentee ballots are usually counted first as instantly available. Those are votes before Romney plows advertising money and campaign phone banks and staff wide open - why usually Romney picks up a few points at the end when election day votes are counted.
 
No it was not. Several candidates had a chance to win.

Does any one else find it amusing that the more certain people try and push the republican party to the right, the more republican voters pick moderates?

I don't really see that during this primary season...

I see the more the the republican party pushes moderates the more conservative voters look for an alternative.

Unfortunately, the republicans are usually good at rallying around as single moderate where as the various conservative bodies each have their own favorite "alternative" candidate.

Look at most of the races. It's not been Romney in a run away most of the time. Its typically a split between various other candidates with Romney getting the largest of them all individually.
 
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