December Republican Primary Poll

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The battle begins: Romney, Perry and Huntsman all go on the attack, with Gingrich and Romney the targets

Debate"Republican candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday launched his first sharp attack on rival Newt Gingrich — choosing to focus on Gingrich’s leadership as House speaker and using old colleagues to paint him as vain, erratic and unreliable." - Washington Post

“Perry seeks to tie his GOP rivals to the Democrat they’d all like to replace on the issue of government-mandated health insurance, the central point in the sweeping national law signed by Obama that conservatives love to hate.” - USA Today

“Jon Huntsman Jr… [characterized] Mitt Romney as the aspiring “panderer-in-chief” and Newt Gingrich as “lobbyist-in-chief.”” - WSJ

Romney super PAC spends $3.1M on Iowa ad - USA Today

Obama’s unprecedented negative campaigning against Romney is the reason for the rise of Newt

“The Democrats’ pre-emptive anti-Mitt push is a genuinely unusual phenomenon in presidential politics. While it’s not unusual to see parties taking some early shots at their political opponents — even during the primary process — such a protracted, harsh messaging effort has no precedent in recent years. And now that Romney is struggling in the GOP primary, Democrats say they deserve at least some of the credit.” - Politico

Newt Nation: now Gingrich’s polling is catching up with Obama

Screen shot 2011-08-27 at 16.01.13"In the survey, Mr. Romney beats Mr. Obama 45% to 42% in Florida, which the president won in 2008. But Mr. Gingrich only loses to the president 46% to 44%, within the survey’s 4.3 percentage point margin of error. In Ohio, Messrs. Gingrich and Romney perform identically against Mr. Obama. Both beat him 43% to 42%. The president does better in Pennsylvania. He beats Mr. Romney 46% to 43% and Mr. Gingrich 48% to 40%." - WSJ

Peggy Noonan: People who have worked with Gingrich before find it hard to support him now

“What is striking is the extraordinary divide in opinion between those who know Gingrich and those who don’t. Those who do are mostly not for him, and they were burning up the phone lines this week in Washington. Those who’ve known and worked with Mitt Romney mostly seem to support him, but when they don’t they don’t say the reason is that his character and emotional soundness are off. Those who know Ron Paul and oppose him do so on the basis of his stands, they don’t say his temperament forecloses the possibility of his presidency. But that’s pretty much what a lot of those who’ve worked with Newt say.” - Peggy Noonan for the WSJ
“Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum will receive the backing of Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz on Friday” - CNN

Ron Paul gears up for long primary slog - Politico

Cain leaves door open to media gig - CNN

The Trump debate fizzles out: only Gingrich and Santorum want to participate - LA Times

Republicans less enthusiastic about 2012 race - %between%

Charles Krauthammer: Obama’s campaign is based on class warfare

“Obama lamented that millions “are now forced to take their children to food banks.” You have to admire the audacity. That’s the kind of damning observation theopposition brings up when you’ve been in office three years. Yet Obama summoned it to make the case for his reelection! … This is populism so crude that it channels not Teddy Roosevelt so much as Hugo Chavez. … He can’t run on stewardship. He can’t run on policy. His signature initiatives — the stimulus, Obamacare and the failed cap-and-trade — will go unmentioned in his campaign ads. Indeed, they will be the stuff of Republican ads. What’s left? Class resentment. Got a better idea?” - Charles Krauthammer for the Washington Post

And finally… A Rick Perry ad is now the most disliked video on YouTube - Washington Post

“Rick Perry’s controversial anti-gay ad, titled “Strong,” has officially upset people. The reaction has actually been so negative that the posting of the ad on YouTube has just achieved the record for the most dislikes on a single video. The clip surpassed Rebecca Black’s now infamous “Friday” music video to claim the top spot as YouTube’s most hated video.” - The Huffington Post
 
Registration race for 2012 underway

Democratic-leaning blocs of minority, youth and unmarried voters could provide a majority of votes for the first time in the 2012 election, but their historically low turnout will likely reduce their percentage of the vote, says a new survey by a Democratic-affiliated advocacy group.

“We’re not sure they will turn out to vote … [but] there’s enormous potential to register these voters,” said Celinda Lake, a pollster who conducted the study for the Voter Participation Center.

The center is trying to boost registration of what it calls the “Rising American Electorate” (RAE), which consists of unmarried women and voters under 30 years of age, plus blacks and Latinos.

Democrats hope this rising demographic tide will carry them to victory in 2012 and afterward. For example, in 2008, 55 percent of married people, but only 33 percent of unmarried people, voted GOP.

The rise of these RAEs is spurring right-of-center groups to launch their own registration drives for the 2012 vote. The Family Research Council, for example, is sending a bus to various sites around the country where allied advocates register GOP-leaning voters, such as people attending colleges or evangelical services.

The Republican National Committee’s voter registration efforts are limited by election finance laws. The rules require that it pay for voter registration efforts with so-called “hard dollars,” which are contributed in relatively small and capped increments by public donors. They can’t use unlimited donations, dubbed “soft money.”

“Voter registration drives are outrageously expensive, and hard dollar committees don’t do them as much as they used to,” said Rick Wiley, political director at the RNC.

The cost to register new voters is roughly $35 per vote, he told The Daily Caller.

However, he said, the RNC will “launch a very aggressive outreach campaign to the Hispanic voters,” and efforts will be complemented by independent outside groups that register new voters.

For now, the GOP is working in Florida and California‘s Central Valley to reach people who have left the Democratic Party, and is working in Nevada to register people in communities that voted heavily for new Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval, who is Hispanic.

One-quarter of under-18s are Hispanic, he said. “It’s the new America, and we have to be ready.”

In contrast with high costs for the RNC, liberal organizations can register each new minority voter at an average cost of under $8, Page Gardner, the founder and president of the Voter Participation Center told TheDC. They can be reached via mail, or registered at education centers or government offices, she said.

Numerous Democratic groups are trying to register voters. Mi Familia Vota, for example, is a group backed by unions, immigration lawyers, progressive activists and Spanish-language media companies.

The Chicago-based Obama 2012 campaign says it is aggressively trying to register minorities, especially Hispanics who were too young to vote in 2008. New Hispanic voters could provide the wining margin in critical swing states such as Colorado and North Carolina, say Democrats.

The Democratic-leaning RAE segment includes several fast-growing blocs, which could together comprise a majority of the voting-age population for the first time in 2012, said Lake.

Read more: dailycaller.com/2011/12/08/registration-race-for-2012-underway/#ixzz1g2bIrL6k
 
The voters have known the facts about Romney for over six years and the very vanilla ice cream guy can’t climb over 25% in the polls against some fairly mediocre rivals!

And similarly, the voters have known all the gossip about Gingrich for six years.

I like Romney and believe he is a decent man, and I think all the other Republican candidates are decent and patriotic citizens as well. But huge swaths of our country had benefited tremendously because of what Gingrich accomplished. Too bad American’s lost their level of focus and allowed a REAL charlatan to sneak through the cracks. But now Mr. Obama must be voted out.

Leading Congress to the huge successes Gingrich had takes more than back-slapping. It takes leadership unseen in this current generation of politicians.

Gingrich was exonerated of all of those charges (a whitch hunt as payback for his firefight with Clinton) but one which was an IRS question that in fact was settled and for the most part pretty innocuous.

That is why the voters kept searching for anyone who could be the “not Romney” candidate; and as each one falls short; they created a lane for Newt to move to the head of the pack!

Now, for Gingrich, with all his experience (ie. the only speaker to orchestrate a balanced budget in some 50 years! …and 4 in a row!) speaks to the issues (rather than against his opponents!) and simply blows away the competition in a little over a month!

But, if it makes you feel better; Romney would serve well in Newt’s cabinet!
 
No, I don’t see where it’s unfair, but I would prefer that all the states divvied up its votes according to district rather than winner take all. However, that is each state’s decision.
Okay California has 55 electoral votes.
In California, Team Orange beat team Yellow by one vote so team Orange gets all 55 electoral votes.
I think that’s kinda unfair
 
Okay California has 55 electoral votes.
In California, Team Orange beat team Yellow by one vote so team Orange gets all 55 electoral votes.
I think that’s kinda unfair
Okay…it’s California’s decision. If you are a citizen of California, try to get it changed.

What they have currently decided is that they would give all their electoral votes to the national popular vote. So, if you are a Californian and the majority of Californians voted Team Orange, all the votes could go to Team Yellow. 🤷

huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/09/jerry-brown-californias-electoral_n_922167.html
 
Okay…it’s California’s decision. If you are a citizen of California, try to get it changed.

What they have currently decided is that they would give all their electoral votes to the national popular vote. So, if you are a Californian and the majority of Californians voted Team Orange, all the votes could go to Team Yellow. 🤷

huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/09/jerry-brown-californias-electoral_n_922167.html
I just used California as an example they have over here in Michigan too.
What I am saying is if Michigan votes team Yellow, than yellow gets all 17 of the electoral votes.
But if California votes team Orange than team Orange get’s all 55 electoral votes. Which in my opinion is unfair.
They should just do it by popular vote I don’t see what the problem with that is.
 
I just used California as an example they have over here in Michigan too.
What I am saying is if Michigan votes team Yellow, than yellow gets all 17 of the electoral votes.
But if California votes team Orange than team Orange get’s all 55 electoral votes. Which in my opinion is unfair.
They should just do it by popular vote I don’t see what the problem with that is.
We are a nation of states with some areas that are very densely populated. If we did away with the Electoral College system, candidates would only campaign in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami, Washington DC and Boston, etc.

Mind you, it would save the candidates a lot of time. Who cares about the voters in the smaller metro areas?
 
We are a nation of states with some areas that are very densely populated. If we did away with the Electoral College system, candidates would only campaign in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami, Washington DC and Boston, etc.

Mind you, it would save the candidates a lot of time. Who cares about the voters in the smaller metro areas?
First of all the candidates already do that.
Second, We should all have a voice in the Government the Electoral College is already a flawed system the fact that they don’t take everyone’s vote into consideration. If one Candidate wins by one vote they get all of the Electoral Votes.
Do you see where that’s unfair?
I mean in 2000 the majority of the people wanted Gore the be President and they didn’t get him.
How can it be a Democracy if the people don’t rule?!
 
First of all the candidates already do that.
Second, We should all have a voice in the Government the Electoral College is already a flawed system the fact that they don’t take everyone’s vote into consideration. If one Candidate wins by one vote they get all of the Electoral Votes.
Do you see where that’s unfair?
I mean in 2000 the majority of the people wanted Gore the be President and they didn’t get him.
How can it be a Democracy if the people don’t rule?!
Nope. I don’t see where its unfair. If the majority of Californians vote for a candidate, and they send all the electoral votes to the Electoral College, then basically it is California casting its vote for the candidate. We are not a direct democracy. We don’t need to have everything based on the popular vote.

And, as far as your claim that candidates already only campaign in major metropolitan areas, I believe that people in Iowa and New Hampshire may beg to differ. 😛
 
Nope. I don’t see where its unfair. If the majority of Californians vote for a candidate, and they send all the electoral votes to the Electoral College, then basically it is California casting its vote for the candidate. We are not a direct democracy. We don’t need to have everything based on the popular vote.

And, as far as your claim that candidates already only campaign in major metropolitan areas, I believe that people in Iowa and New Hampshire may beg to differ. 😛
When they campaign in Michigan it’s only to make it seem like our state is important
😃

I see what your getting at but I don’t see why we can’t just do it by popular vote and give the people what they want
 
First of all the candidates already do that.
Second, We should all have a voice in the Government the Electoral College is already a flawed system the fact that they don’t take everyone’s vote into consideration. If one Candidate wins by one vote they get all of the Electoral Votes.
Do you see where that’s unfair?
I mean in 2000 the majority of the people wanted Gore the be President and they didn’t get him.
How can it be a Democracy if the people don’t rule?!
Where in the Constitution does the word “democracy” exist?

The United States is a representative republic. Not a democracy.

If the United States was a democracy, we would not need 50 states. Just ONE biggie state.

And only one house of Congress, not two of them, with one based on population distribution and the other supposed to be selected by state legislators.

And we wouldn’t need three branches: legislative, executive and judicial. We would only need one.

The idea is to have multiple sources of power that compete to prevent the establishment of tyranny.

With a democracy, you end up with all sorts of “madding crowds” determining every policy. And a lot of popularity contests. And politicians appealing exclusively to the current fad … fad … For A Day. Political whiplash, with no one knowing what is going on from one day to the next, because everything changes as the election results change.

The idea is to have some semblance of smoothness and evenness.

By having multiple sources of power that compete in the marketplace of ideas, you prevent concentration of power.

Of course, since Woodrow Wilson [or earlier], the central government has been doing just that … concentrating power in the hands of an oligarchy.

Anyway, with democracy you get Juan Peron and economic chaos.
 
First of all the candidates already do that.
Second, We should all have a voice in the Government the Electoral College is already a flawed system the fact that they don’t take everyone’s vote into consideration. If one Candidate wins by one vote they get all of the Electoral Votes.
Do you see where that’s unfair?
I mean in 2000 the majority of the people wanted Gore the be President and they didn’t get him.
How can it be a Democracy if the people don’t rule?!
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want the president elected by both coasts. There are those of us who live in fly-over country who matter just as much. The founding fathers gave us a very good form of government if we have the sense to keep it. And once again, when all the recounting was done, Bush got the majority of the votes in Florida. Go back and check.
 
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want the president elected by both coasts. There are those of us who live in fly-over country who matter just as much. The founding fathers gave us a very good form of government if we have the sense to keep it. And once again, when all the recounting was done, Bush got the majority of the votes in Florida. Go back and check.
Agree with this point. If not for the electoral college, we would have the president elected by California and New York…you know what that means. It may be a flawed system but it does prevent us from having a couple of heavily populated urban areas determine the fate of a very diverse population.

I mean California brought us Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer and Maxine Waters among others. I’d rather we limited their control over our fate.

Lisa
 
I think we will regret not listening to Ron Pauls words one of these days.

youtube.com/watch?v=BDvaTqLlZlA
I like Ron Paul’s libertarianism. It encourages personal responsibility and accountability for personal choices. Unfortunately, the public doesn’t want true social justice for personal choices. It’s too easy for the public to keep dreaming that there’s some sort of justice when taxes are raised on those who are more likely to handle their pleasure, only to be given to those who more likely can’t handle their pleasure. If people can’t resist temptation, then let’s create a clean society rather than continue the injustice of raising taxes on the innocent. The bankruptcy of democracy must eventually occur on our current path. The bigoted media doesn’t want people to consider this truth.
 
Gingrich is the most knowledgeable and battle tested. Santorum has the message, but he sounds too lecturey. He needs to speak from the heart and soul, to let it all hang out. He needs to hand himself over and not worry about his and his family’s security, like Kevin Costner’s famous horse ride in Dances With Wolves.
 
I like Ron Paul’s libertarianism. It encourages personal responsibility and accountability for personal choices. Unfortunately, the public doesn’t want true social justice for personal choices. It’s too easy for the public to keep dreaming that there’s some sort of justice when taxes are raised on those who can handle their pleasure, only to be given to those who can’t handle their pleasure. If people can’t resist temptation, then let’s create a clean society rather than continue the injustice of raising taxes on the innocent. The bigoted media doesn’t want people to consider this truth.
I love Bill O’Reilly’s comment when politicians speak of utopias where everyone “gets a fair shot” and “does their fair share” and “gets an equal education.”

QUIT CHASING LEPRECHAUNS!

You’re right, few if any pols have the courage to speak out but then do you blame them? Paul Ryan came up with a courageous approach to our bloated entitlements and was immediately portrayed throwing granny off a cliff…when in fact his plan had NOTHING which would have done anything remotely close. The politicians lie and the media ignores it.

That being said, I cannot accept Mr Paul’s anti-Semitic rhetoric or the theory that Iran has a right to nuclear weapons. He too shares some illusions about human nature.

Lisa
 
I love Bill O’Reilly’s comment when politicians speak of utopias where everyone “gets a fair shot” and “does their fair share” and “gets an equal education.”

QUIT CHASING LEPRECHAUNS!

You’re right, few if any pols have the courage to speak out but then do you blame them? Paul Ryan came up with a courageous approach to our bloated entitlements and was immediately portrayed throwing granny off a cliff…when in fact his plan had NOTHING which would have done anything remotely close. The politicians lie and the media ignores it.

That being said, I cannot accept Mr Paul’s anti-Semitic rhetoric or the theory that Iran has a right to nuclear weapons. He too shares some illusions about human nature.

Lisa
MEANWHILE, “our” Senators and Representatives write laws that exempt themselves from those very laws that impact us!
I think we should repeal the 17th Amendment and thereby make “our” Senators more accountable.*
 
Have Democrats been caught engaging in Voter fraud - Man Claims He Signed Walker Recall Petitions 80 Times:

wbay.com/story/16231643/2011/12/09/man-claims-he-signed-walker-recall-petitions-80-times?clienttype=printable

ABC’s Morning Show Host Gets Chance to Jab GOPers in Primetime

The GOP presidential candidates, at the upcoming ABC News debate in Iowa, should brace themselves to be splattered with tough questions from the left from moderator George Stephanopoulos. The good news for them is that most should be well-prepared for the left-leaning sliders, as many have already been subjected to Stephanopoulos’s liberal questioning on Good Morning America. In 20 interview segments this year with the GOP candidates, totaling nearly two hours (110 minutes), an MRC review has documented Stephanopoulos has consistently pressed his guests from the left. Of questions with an ideological bent 75 percent (36) were from the left with just 25 percent (12) of them coming from the right.

newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2011/12/08/abcs-morning-show-host-gets-chance-jab-gopers-primetime
 
Have Democrats been caught engaging in Voter fraud - Man Claims He Signed Walker Recall Petitions 80 Times:

wbay.com/story/16231643/2011/12/09/man-claims-he-signed-walker-recall-petitions-80-times?clienttype=printable

ABC’s Morning Show Host Gets Chance to Jab GOPers in Primetime

The GOP presidential candidates, at the upcoming ABC News debate in Iowa, should brace themselves to be splattered with tough questions from the left from moderator George Stephanopoulos. The good news for them is that most should be well-prepared for the left-leaning sliders, as many have already been subjected to Stephanopoulos’s liberal questioning on Good Morning America. In 20 interview segments this year with the GOP candidates, totaling nearly two hours (110 minutes), an MRC review has documented Stephanopoulos has consistently pressed his guests from the left. Of questions with an ideological bent 75 percent (36) were from the left with just 25 percent (12) of them coming from the right.

newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2011/12/08/abcs-morning-show-host-gets-chance-jab-gopers-primetime
 
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