Fantastic! This primary is effing amazing. Obama put on a show tonight, telling it like it is, and now you numbskulls are going to nominate Newt Gingrich, a man so despicable his own party turned their back on him when he violated house ethics guidelines. You asshat Republicans are going to run a guy for president who literally shot down the government because Bill Clinton made him sit in the back of a plane.

Keep it up guys!

Also, apparently evangelicals are flocking to Newt... you know, the serial adulterer who left one wife who was sticken with cancer, and another who was diagnosed with MS. You know, the guy who was cheating on his wife while trying to impeach Bill Clinton for... adultery? HAHAHAHA! Suckers!

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2012/0124/Mitt-Romney-s-disastrous-week-ends-with-collapse-in-national-polls

is debates in South Carolina went poorly. He lost a primary by 12 percentage points that he had thought would be his. A trio of polls over the weekend showed him in a freefall in Florida relative to Newt Gingrich, despite pumping millions of advertising dollars into the state. His income tax returns, finally released, left him open to mockery about his 14 percent tax rate and offshore investments.

And now national polls seem to be going the way of the Florida polls.

The Gallup daily tracking poll – a five-day rolling average – put Mr. Gingrich on top among Republican voters, 31 percent to Mr. Romney's 27 percent, for the first time in well over a month on Tuesday. It's a massive change from the 23-point lead Romney enjoyed just over a week ago.

A Rasmussen poll, meanwhile, also showed Gingrich way up nationally, with 35 percent among likely GOP voters to Romney's 28 percent. "Support for Gingrich has jumped a total of 19 points in two surveys since early January, while Romney's support has held steady in that same period," the report says.

(In both polls, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul are registering in the low double-digits.)

It's clear the polls are changing, rapidly. On Monday, Gallup's national poll showed Romney and Gingrich in a statistical tie – itself a big shift from the previous week. In a campaign that has been notable since the summer for its rapid and large shifts in poll results, the first few contests have done nothing to change that.

In a blog Monday night, Gallup pollster Frank Newport wrote: "Gingrich and Romney continue to exchange the lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, not unlike the final quarter of a close championship football game. The most obvious implication of this back and forth is Romney's failure to consolidate and sustain his support among Republicans nationally. The virtual evaporation of Romney's 20-plus-point lead over the last week suggests that Republicans most certainly have not settled on the former Massachusetts governor as their final choice for the nominee. The fact that Gingrich has managed to resurrect his standing in the polls once again suggests that Republicans have most certainly not ruled him out."

In both polls, conservative Republicans have been key to Gingrich's resurgence. Gallup's numbers, for instance, show that in the two weeks of mid-January, Gingrich's support among conservatives grew from 16 percent to 28 percent, while Romney's support among that same group fell from 36 percent to 28 percent.

Similarly, the Rasmussen poll shows Gingrich favored heavily by voters who consider themselves tea party Republicans, very conservative, or evangelical Christians.

 

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You talk a lot.

Rho

 

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Yeah, my 1 thread a day is really filling the boards up.

 

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You have upset the troll majority lately though. I would say they are political activists but they are not that smart.

 

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Butthurt middle-aged white guys... so sad!

 

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Thank you for realizing your previous apathy of the current situation at hand.

Regards.

 

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Personally I think it is more about not voting for a damm Yankee.

Once things move north Newt will have a greater challenge to contend with.

 

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In the SC exit polls, almost 70% of voters said that sharing religious beliefs was either an important or very important factor in their vote. Among those, Newt had more than double the support.

After the debate the other night, Frank Luntz interviewed a focus group and one lady spoke up and said she was leaning toward Newt because of "his family values". WTF this voting block is stupid

 

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"Family values" is code for "hatred of gay people."

 

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You have to remember 30% of the Republicans in the south today were the Democrats that voted for Wallace in '68 for his values, and by '72 they changed to Republican and voted Nixon in for his "values".

It is pretty well documented.

The Republicans have catered to this crowd to get their legislation in that favors the elite ultra-rich, and it is why in many ways they have become the Party of Stupid.

Romney is a busnissman whether you like his business or not, but his talk with numbers on changing the tax rates is over the heads of the Republican constutuents (of the south), when all they can understand is get the ******.

Get the ****** is the only message Newt has and it resonates with the Mob.

That is why Newt won't do debates anymore where the Mob doesn't get to boo and act up, for that is is his strength, when evil reigns supreme and the intelligence of the crowd drops by 20 points as they chant, "Obama is a Kenyan" or some other crap, that is where he draws his power.

He is a smart guy and knows how to work the crowd, while Romney is too intellectual and too Northern for them.

 

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