Saturday, January 21, 2012

Anybody But Mitt?

Santorum wins Iowa.  Romney wins New Hampshire.  Newt Gingrich wins South Carolina.  I think the best thing we can say about GOP voters is that we are bi-polar.
From Fox News: Newt Gingrich has won the South Carolina Republican primary, Fox News projects, further scrambling an already volatile presidential race which has produced three different winners in three states as the candidates head next to Florida. 
Fox News projects that Mitt Romney will place second in the Palmetto State, where he was leading in the polls just one week ago. With 81 percent of precincts reporting, Gingrich has 41 percent and Romney has 27 percent. 
Rick Santorum will finish in third place, Fox News projects, while Ron Paul will finish last. 
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/21/polls-close-in-south-carolina-primary/#ixzz1k9VvX6jB
I guess it is very surprising tha Gingrich got 41% of the vote and the other surprise is that Ron Paul finished dead last with only 13% of the vote.  Gingrich won all but 3 counties in South Carolina, so it shows he had wide spread support there.
So, this puts Nevada in play in two weeks when we have our caucuses here.  Right now, Romney has the lead in Nevada, like he has in every state and has the organization, but that may change quickly.
But you wouldn't know we are havng a caucus Feburary 4 as I have not been contacted by any campaign with literature or e-mail nor have I seen an advertisement for any candidate.  But I suspect I will see some in the next few days.
Now, the gloves will really come off.

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