With the Nevada Caucus this Saturday, Mitt Romney currently leads there by 20 points according to new Las Vegas Review-Journal poll.
Mitt Romney 45%
Newt Gingrich 25%
Rick Santorum 11%
Ron Paul 9%
Noe of these/don’t know 10%
The first night of polling by PPP also found Romney with huge double digit lead over the rest of the field, according to the results Tom Jensen shared with Jon Ralston.
The first night impressions via pollster Tom Jensen:
“Romney leads Newt by about 15-20 points. The main suspense may be whether he gets over 50%, he will certainly have a chance. Paul is 3rd and Santorum 4th, both around 15%. The chances of Paul besting Gingrich for 3rd are pretty minuscule.
Given the very large Mormon population in Nevada and the fact that Romney won the state in 2008, it is not surprising that Romney is doing very well this time around. Still a win is a win. If Romney wins Saturday he will be 3 for 5 in primaries. It will get Romney delegates, and more importantly help cement the impression that Romney is becoming inevitable.
It is going to be tough for Gingrich or Santorum to build momentum for another surge this month with there being only one debate and Romney steadily collecting wins.



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Hey Fat and Pasty, time to drop the moon bullshit. It’s time to go full on RACIST. You remember George Wallace and Lester Maddox. Pass out the ax handles. You’ll have your supporters doing a big conga line down the street.
Make a float of the rock at Rick Perry’s hunting camp. Everybody knows you’re a racist Newt, flaunt it Fatty.
Legacy Media continues to act very startled about their being no debates for three weeks. Don’t they actually organize the debates? Couldn’t they have debates between now and 2/22 if they wanted to? Why are they so surprised and baffled by the lack of debates — isn’t it Legacy Media’s doing?
If this lack of debates favors the inevitability of the front-runner, Romney, isn’t Legacy Media complicit? They hold the debates, after all.
I’m actually interested in knowing the answer to these questions, if anyone does.
Rich people don’t care which one of their shills we elect as President but they are worried about down ticket elections and know Newt would adversely affect them so the “club” is voting Newt out as fast as possible. It would already be done except Mitt is such an asshat.
And for the Ron Paul supporters, defend this:
http://www.examiner.com/anonymous-in-national/hunting-nazis-anonymous-snares-ron-paul-operation-blitzkrieg
Western states have a reputation right or wrong as being more independent and freedom loving Ron placing below Rick is interesting If Ron can’t get second in the Western states i doubt he can win second anywhere else this is surprising to me given his pretty good showing so far.
Maybe Ron is not as popular as we thought?
There will be a huge surge for Frothy now that he has been endorsed by Sharon Angle. s/
I believe going full on racist would work for any GOP candidate to get votes and it might be the only way anyone can beat Mitt right now in the GOP primary.
I am open to other ideas on how to beat Mitt. We knock off Mitt the GOP choices become less and less electable Ron is the only one to worry about he is the best the GOP has at denying he is a racist.
The following represents a large portion of his supporters. “I’m voting for Paul cuz the other guys are assholes and some of the shit he says makes sense.”
Anybody watching Geithner speak on how he’s fixed all the problems with the financial industry? What the fuck is that asshole scowling about? Don’t make me shoot my television. :-(
I think the Media and the GOP realized that the more the GOP debated the worse the entire GOP does in the polling. Yes it helps Mitt thats a plus as far as the MSM is concerned. But it also helps the GOP nationwide hold onto office if the crazy GOP crowds at their debates don’t cheer on prime time tv for ideas the majority of voters think are horrible.
Newt’s answer about his ex wife claiming he wanted an open marriage I am sure helps explains Newt’s horrible turnout with women voters in Florida.
GOP debate crowds cheering the idea of letting people who don’t buy healthcare die was another winner.
Just standing next to crazy people shouting whether its on tv or homeless on the street makes everyone think that you are crazy too even if you don’t say anything crazy.
No more debates means Mitt does not hurt himself in the general election more by standing next to Newt, Ron, Rick etc.
The phone calls in the poll were made Friday through Tuesday, i.e., before Romney’s comment about not being concerned about the very poor.
The media have barely mentioned what I think is the worst thing Marianne Gingrich said in her interview: Newt announced he wanted to divorce her after they learned she had MS, and he announced to his first wife Jackie that he wanted to divorce her after they both knew she had cancer. I can’t imagine that impressed many women.
Yeah, that strikes me as being a completely unbiased example of fine journalism. /s I don’t support Paul, but when he’s gone from the campaign, every remaining candidate will be in support of war with Iran, a free pass for the financial industry, assassination without due process, indefinite detention, and continuing the racist drug war. Be very careful what you wish for.
Agreed but I honestly thought there were much more of those people was Ron all hype I wonder? Ron needs to at least a few second place showings to influence the GOP and show he is a force in the party. The Western States is where I thought he had the best chance of doing that but
If Ron can’t beat none of these and don’t know then I admit I am wrong about Ron. I do think Ron is a racist but I honestly thought he could place third maybe second if none of these/I don’t know beats Ron in what I assumed was his stronghold then Ron gots nothing.
Considering that the Anonymous hacktivists who claim to have discovered that Ron Paul continues to associate with leaders of a hate group also said this (in your link):
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I wonder how reliable their undocumented claims are.
Mitt if he had a brain should be mentioning that. I think the MSM might favor MItt but there is a limit on how much they will attack any GOPer because to many attacks on GOPers spills over and makes them all look bad.
Thats my theory anyway. Still Women did not turnout much for Newt in Florida I think the news the MSM did report still hurt Newt and will keep hurting him about 48% of all marriages end in divorce in America and Newt is the nightmare for any divorced woman.
So similar policies as our current President
Ron hangs with Nazi’s as well as racists and… Scientologists I am not sure whats worse but I am sure the Media won’t ask Ron about that.
One can only hope:)
Hey I’m with you on that. I want the discussion about the wars and the truth to come out about what war is really about but one can’t deny RPs racism.
Oh, yes, I definitely meant to include him as a “remaining candidate.” Absolutely. If Paul is gone, NOBODY will speak well on the issues Paul is good on, the ones I cited above, which I consider to be very fundamental and important to our Republic and democracy. Obamabots’ heads tend to explode when one points this out. So, I’ll hit the Submit button, and stand back lol.
Keep doing that. People will live in the biggest mess, complain about other people’s messes, and then take umbrage if you point out that they are just as bad. Do nothing Democrats are a worse enemy than activist Paul or Palinites.
I don’t know the truth about his personal racism. I do know the drug war he opposes, BY HIMSELF, is racist.
Ron Paul also now opposes another racist policy, capital punishment. That’s one of the few times he has changed his position on something.
Especially since Romney’s wife, according to her Wikipedia entry, was diagnosed with MS in 1988, and underwent (successful) breast cancer surgery in 1998.
Yeah, that’s kind of an amazing symmetry, isn’t it? Of course, they are all hateful, each in his own way. Including Obama..
I wasn’t really aware of that position of his, I am not anti-death penalty where the crime is heinous and the evidence is ironclad. And, frankly, I couldn’t care less about Paul the person. But the issues I cited are of ultimate importance to me, and the thought of going through an entire election season with none of them ever getting mentioned is really a nightmare vision for me. The bad current policies will be considered to be set in stone forever after that happens.
Well, the difficulty is deciding when the evidence really is ironclad. When the authorities have railroaded somebody, the evidence they bring forward can very well look ironclad. It’s only years later that we sometimes discover that the evidence was fraudulent.
My law school mentor was Barry Scheck, who co-founded The Innocence Project. I did my internship with him. So, my standards for “ironclad” are pretty high. ;-)
Well, well, well……Excluding the None/Don’t know, for the first time, the not-Romney vote is short of the Romney vote. MY experience is that many republicans want to be on the side that wins, so they are more and more likely to migrate to the Mittster. Of course, Gingrich aids in that migration, as does Santorum.
There is much “back and forth” on the proportional awarding of delegates in many of the remaining GOP Primaries and caucuses. But, if Paul, Santorum and Gingrich continue to hang around, and it appears they likely WILL, I don’t see how Romney can amass enough delegates to walk into Tampa the victor. IMO, Gingrich will continue to do well below the Mason-Dixon line and in states where the infamous “idiot peckerhead” vote is substantial. And there are several of those red states still to be heard from.
If history means anything, it shows that a Democratic presidential candidate who opposes war (McGovern compared the Nixon Administration to Nazi Germany and Nixon to Hitler for their Vietnam policies; Carter prided his administration for zero wars, zero armed forces casualties in combat) wins a few more Electoral College votes than I win, and I don’t even run.
Can you suggest one benefit of capital punishment?
WE “saved” two innocent guys from execution here in Texas in the last 20 years or so with DNAtesting and quite likely executed an innocent guy about 9 month ago.
I really don’t care about the political inside game. I oppose unnecessary wars and unnecessary killing for the financial benefit of the weapon makers. I don’t mind being a minority voice when I am convinced that I am morally in the right.
Sure, but you won’t agree with me, and I am quite sure we measure these things differently. That’s OK.
Well, that’s why I referenced the Innocence Project. They are getting all these exonerations based on DNA evidence. They are showing the unreliability of eyewitness evidence. Ironclad evidence, to me, always includes ironclad DNA evidence.
Sorry, didn’t mean to put you on the spot. Suppose capital punishment were prohibited: would you seek a repeal of the prohibition?
I think that for certain horrific acts, you should forfeit your life, But I would not become a political activist over it either way.