South Carolina Primary Thread

[Boom_70]

Time to head south. Should be an interesting week.

 

[Guy_Incognito]

Can I start the Secondary Thread?

 

[Boom_70]

Can I start the Secondary Thread?

Above my pay grade. You will need to speak with the mods.

 

[doodah]

I'm not big into politics, so I'm afraid I won't be chiming in.

 

[Stitch]

I'm not big into politics, so I'm afraid I won't be chiming in.

If you want to be a sports writer, you should get into politics, or at least be informed. You never know when an editor wants to switch you to news. In hindsight, I hated covering sports. Loved chatting with Congressmen, Senators, and candidates for governor.

 

[User 11148]

South Carolina (my native state): Too small as a republic, too big as an asylum.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Let's see if Romney can. Limb above that ever-elusive 40 percent of the vote.

 

[NickMordo]

Rootin' for Ron

 

[Football_Bat]

Romney will pull out a win and it'll be game over before it really starts.

Gingrich should be the one to do well here, but Santorum and Perry will rob him of a lot of social conservative votes. Ron Paul will pull his customary 20-25 percent. Huntsman will be lucky to break double digits.

Besides, look at the polls covering why voters make choices. Electability is by far the No. 1 factor. These people would vote for O.J. Simpson if they thought he could beat Obama.

 

[Deeper_Background]

Its a dead heat. The poll, an automated survey from InsiderAdvantage, was conducted on Wednesday and shows Mr. Romney with 23 percent of the vote, just 2 points ahead of Newt Gingrich at 21 percent. The poll has Rick Santorum and Ron Paul tied for third place at 13 percent, with Jon M. Huntsman Jr. having moved ahead of Rick Perry for fifth place.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/polls-show-gains-for-romney-but-not-in-south-carolina/

 

[Mark2010]

If Mitt Romney wins in SC or Florida, he's got an almost insurrmountable lead. If someone else wins one or both of those states, it really is game on!!

I think Gingrich and Ron Paul could really do well in South Carolina and get back into the thick of the race. Both need to race some serious cash in order to keep up with Romney and the only way to do that is convince wealthy donors they have a realistic chance to win.

 

[Deeper_Background]

Larry O'Donnell's right on MSNBC. Mitt's been hit in the jaw and he has no idea how to respond to the Bain Capital /Gordon Gekko charges. Newt may win this thing, and how can Williard compete against Barry O and the Chicago machine when he can't finish off a lackluster field of wanna bes in his own party? Let Santorum take the nomination and at least have a chance taking the Senate downballot, sometimes the cigar filled nomination rooms were a good thing in the old days

 

[Starman]

Willard-Mitt blurts out more stuff how unfair it is that everybody hates him because he's so rich. If only they would get to work.

Then he blathers out some stuff about how people need "a little luck" and "to take some risks" to succeed.

But wait wait wait wait... I thought your Uberclass numbers eggheads keep telling us the reason the whole housing market went in the ****ter was too many "risky" mortgages were given out to those shiftless lazy lower-income people. Now you're telling us counting on luck is the road to success??

http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/12/news/economy/romney_envy/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2

Keep it up, silver spooner.

 

[Football_Bat]

Occupy Wall Street and S.C. Republicans in partnership. Who knew?

 

[Deeper_Background]

Romney got beat by Ted Kennedy on the same charges in the 1994 Senate campaign.

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

If Rick Santorum was told he could be President but only if he allowed Rick Perry to sodomize him - would he agree to that deal?

Is there a way we could trick him into thinking this is for real?

 

[suburbia]

If Mitt Romney wins in SC or Florida, he's got an almost insurrmountable lead. If someone else wins one or both of those states, it really is game on!!

I think Gingrich and Ron Paul could really do well in South Carolina and get back into the thick of the race. Both need to race some serious cash in order to keep up with Romney and the only way to do that is convince wealthy donors they have a realistic chance to win.

It wouldn't be a matter of Romney having an insurmountable lead. Rather, it would be a matter of Romney having so much momentum and the other candidates not having the breakthrough performance they need to draw people and money off Romney's bandwagon and on to theirs. If Romney wins SC, he'll be three for three, with two of the races being in states where he was expected to struggle some. Voters will, however grudgingly, accept the idea of him as the nominee, the other candidates' money supplies will dry up and they won't be able to mount a viable campaign. Romney still won't have locked up the nomination mathematically, but he'll lock it up in reality.

I'm just astonished though that Romney's competition has been so lousy. You would have thought that, with a weak, vulnerable incumbent and a stagnant economy that better candidates would have jumped in. Instead we got this clown car and Romney, for all of his own vulnerabilities, has barely had to break a sweat.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I think the #1 goal is to get Newt to ix-nay on the orporate-kay ultures-vay, and the easiest way to do that is to win S.C. If Newt doesn't get something going there, even he has to see the writing on the wall.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Don't blame me, I voted Colbert.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/stephen-colbert-transfers-super-pac-to-jon-stewart-teases-entry-to-republican-primary-in-sc/2012/01/12/gIQAuLSmuP_story.html

 

[Boom_70]

Tonight on Ed Show, Ed was talking about the history of Mormon discriminatory practices against blacks. No doubt this will come up in South Carolina.