We already have two new polls out for the state of Florida, the next battleground in the Republican race, and they both show Newt Gingrich moving into a high-single-digit lead over Mitt Romney. We will start with a new poll from Insider Advantage that was done for Newsmax.
PRESIDENT - FLORIDA - GOP PRIMARY (Insider Advantage)
Newt Gingrich 34%
Mitt Romney 26%
Ron Paul 13%
Rick Santorum 11%
The second poll out this morning comes from Scott Rasmussen and Rasmussen Reports that puts Newt Gingrich up by 9%.
PRESIDENT - FLORIDA - GOP PRIMARY (Rasmussen)
Newt Gingrich 41%
Mitt Romney 32%
Rick Santorum 11%
Ron Paul 8%
Both polls were done January 22nd, among 557 like primary voters for the Insider Advantage Poll (no margin of error given in article) and 750 likely primary voters for the Rasmussen poll (+/- 4% margin of error).
O.P. Ditch
7:14 am on Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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hmj
9:17 am on Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Newt is full of hot air. Why replace one failed leader (Obama) with another failed leader (Newt)? Romney is the best all around candidate for the GOP. He does not have all the personal baggage that Newt has ---- and there are more ugly items to come out.
O.P. Ditch
10:19 am on Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Romney is NOT the best all around candidate. He cannot fight his way out of a wet paper bag. Obama and the press will crush him. Newt is the only Conservative who has led the balancing of the Federal Budget, and who can articulate the Conservative reasons why BHO should be a one term president. Newt can debate, AS WELL AS he can put the lame stream media in it's place to get the message across in the general election.
Brook Hubbard
10:54 am on Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Except Moderates and Independents are less likely to vote for Gingrich. Face it, a Conservative will usually vote for the Republican nominee, regardless of who it is. They don't want Obama getting a second term so, even if they don't like a specific stance or characteristic, they'll still vote for the opposing party.
Moderates, Independents, etc. must be woo'd. Newt fails at that, as he tows the Far Right line a bit too much. Romney, while backpeddling on several issues to try and retain the Conservative vote, still stands a bit more toward the middle. Thus, Romney is more likely to earn those necessary swing votes (you know, the ones that put Obama in office) than Gingrich.
Honestly, I like neither of them; I feel they're both still stooges of corporate money (just like most politicians). The only Republican that even remotely appealed to me was Roemer. Although, I do enjoy some of Ron Paul's ideas (even as I directly oppose others).
Shawn
5:20 pm on Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The USA needs a real political change. Newt, Romney, Santorum, and Obama all have one thing in common, they talk the talk to get elected but once in office fail to walk the walk. Only Ron Paul has proven that he is a man of his word. Now that is the real change this once great nation desperately is in need of!
O.P. Ditch
5:39 pm on Tuesday, January 24, 2012
I think Moderates and Independents will be "woo'd" by the fact that Newt is the only one who will attack Obama on the issues, fearlessly and smack down the press. Independents and some "mod dems" are part of the Tea Party which I have personally witnessed at many TP events. They are fed up with O's economy, and Newt was one of the first leaders to support the Tea Party when it started. Romney has little or NO backing from the Tea Party. The exit polls from SC prove that.
Shawn
6:35 pm on Thursday, January 26, 2012
"Newt was one of the first leaders to support the Tea Party"
Newt will support anything if he thinks by saying so is what the audience want to hear.
Shawn
5:49 pm on Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Why bother voting for Newt, Romney, Santorum or Obama when they are telling the voters what the voters want to hear yet have a proven record of "changing their stance" on the issues and never make good on their campaign promises? Tea Party? Give me a break! What a crock! The Tea Party supports the business as usual political crowd. The Tea Party is not the grass roots organization it started out as.
O.P. Ditch
10:36 am on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The Tea Party is NOT going away: http://www.teapartypatriots.org/uncategorized/tea-party-patriots-sotu-response/
Shawn
7:04 pm on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The idea that started the Tea Party is NOT going away, but the current hijacked Tea Party that supports main stream "business as usual" candidates has lost it's mojo. The people of the United States of America on both the left and right sides of politics are awaking to the fact their respective political parties tell them what they want to hear to win elections, then once in office travel down a completely different political road of destructive agendas.
Shawn
6:39 pm on Thursday, January 26, 2012
Some history about the new Tea Party: http://www.dailypaul.com/184934/the-tea-party-nations-sellout