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Demographics proved to be destiny once again for Mitt Romney, who is one big step closer to wrapping up the Republican presidential nomination.
NBC News has declared Romney the winner in Wisconsin. He won 42-38 percent over Rick Santorum with 99 percent of the vote in, and familiar patterns emerged that led to his win, according to exit polls.
Santorum faced an uphill battle going into Wisconsin because, despite its blue-collar voters, Wisconsin lacked the evangelicals that have fueled his insurgent campaign. And he only won those voters by a narrow margin.
Romney also went beyond his traditional base, winning with Tea Party supporters (48-37 percent), those making below $100,000 (40-38 percent), non-college graduates (42-38 percent), and tying with very conservatives (43-43 percent).
Just 38 percent of Republican primary voters Tuesday said they were born-again or evangelical Christians in Wisconsin – the same number that said so in 2008. But Santorum won them by just a 43-39 percent margin.
Santorum has not won in a state with less than 57 percent evangelical population. The average evangelical population in states Santorum has won was 72 percent.
By contrast, the average evangelical population in states where Romney won was 36 percent, about where it was in Wisconsin Tuesday.
Voters were more downscale and blue collar than in typical Romney wins. States where he has won averaged 50 percent college grads and 33 percent making more than $100,000. In Wisconsin, 43 percent had a college degree and 26 percent said they made more than $100,000 a year. But both numbers were up from 2008.
Romney’s biggest margin was on one question. Voters said the one quality that mattered most in deciding how they would vote was being able to defeat President Obama. Almost one-in-four (36 percent) said that was their top priority, and overwhelmingly, they picked Romney by a whopping 68-23 percent margin.
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It is kind of funny, in Wisconsin.......more people signed the petition to recall Walker, than voted in the GOP primary yesterday!
People!!! People!!! People !!!
History of Republican Politics:
When Nixon took office, about 300 American soldiers were dying each week in Vietnam.
President Nixon removed America from the gold standard, which meant money would have no real value, Money became Political Money.
Oh dear Reagan:
The first signs of impending trouble are the exploding budget deficits themselves. They began, of course, under the parlous economic stewardship of Ronald Reagan. Reagan cut the marginal tax rate on the wealthiest of Americans from 70% to 38%. He promised it would spur an orgy of investment and rocket the economy to new levels of production and prosperity. Instead, his supply side economics did the exact opposite. It produced the deepest recession since the Great Depression.
If we elect a Republican / Tea Party President we will have 4 more years of destruction of the middle class.
Romney is too rich to even realize what America needs, Romney will become a yes man for the GOP!!
We will have the Ryan Plan for America!!!!!!!!! which will destroy America!!!
The Ryan plan adds an additional $6000 year cost to medicare patients while lowering taxes for the wealthiest Ameicans. His voucher system will not even cover 3/4 of the cost of private insurance. The poor seniors with major medical problems may noit even be able to get coverage.
Even the leaders of the National Association of churches who back the repukes, say that the Ryan plan is a cruel disaster. But to these freaks, it is abortion banning first, the country second.
Once the repukes greedy criminal corporate masters get their hands on the medicare money, you will be lucky to get anything at all.
Any person on Medicare who votes for these lying repukes gets what they deserve.
Hamm1, Are you back again? I thought your last dose of thorizine would have taken the edge off... maybe next time.
Sit down dunce. Wow. I thought that Sanitarium giving you a personal vaginal ultrasound helped cure your brain illness. Evidently, you need another one.
That can't be AJ! I thouyght they were making room for Ronnie on Mt Rushmore, no?
They need a contemporary hero so they make one up. Memory is a fleeting thing evidently.
That's great analysis, but is he warming up to Evangelicals yet??
Warming up to all but the bigots.
Romney didn't win the Republican vote, he bought it. Mitt spent fifty times as much as Santorum in Wisconsin, mostly for attack ads. Wall Street is buying Romney the nomination, and he will richly reward them for their donations. He knows most of them by name. Romney is a man of the people, the ones that were created by the Supreme Court, not God or nature.
Doesn't, (according to MSNBC) Obama have over 1 Billion dollars to blow on the re-election attempt? I guess that's ok, but Romney's spending is not ok.
Sit down dunce. The only ones that are complaining about lyin Willardo's spending are his stupid repuke rivals. These are the guys that wanted the open to anyone donations passed by the Supreme Court, now they are complaining about it. By the time this lyin Mexican Mormon Moron tax evader, bankrupter and Etch A Sketch champion gets to a brokered convention, he won't have much left.
I can't tell you how much I respect Romney. I read two unauthorized biographies and his own book. Actually, I have been watching him for years. I really believe he is the man to get our "truck out of the ditch." Romney!
Man, I'll bet that didn't even sound right to you, let alone everybody else.
Of course dummy won some teabagger votes, he's a teabagger. Santorum was doomed from the start for his stance on women, the same thing will happen to rummie, he want to take away womens right to good health care. We get them right wing idiots out of the house of reps, we can return to a democracy again. I got two questions for the republicans, one: why are you guys afraid of women???, and two: where in hell do you people find these candidates????? This is what rumneys what, fourth time at the White House now????.....give it up mitt, you're too stupid to be President.
Now that Obama has signed HR 347 into law...
Remember SOPA?
It gets worse.
Obama is now pushing hard to get CISPA passed:
rt.com/usa/news/cispa-bill-sopa-internet-175/
Vote Ron Paul for Freedom!
Vote Ron (Puke) Paul for President of his nursing home. The last of the founding fathers prefers one near his muslim buddies in Guantanamo. According to him, these are good people that we made bad.
This dunce should spend one night there. He would come out of there the next day with his ahole so red he would not be able to sit on the toilet for a week.
Obama/Biden 2012!!!!
A Super Noisy Cricket Gettin Wicked On Ya.
Kickin it back with the De-Mo-Crats.
Kicking it back with the De-Mo-Crats
The Democrats
Here come the De-mo-crats (Uh it's the DNC)
(Uh here come the DNC)
Here come the De-mo-crats(Men in Black)
The GOP won't let you remember
Nah, nah, nah,
The good guys dress in black, remember that,
Just in case we ever face to face and make contact.
The title held by me... DNC
Means what you think you saw, you did not see.
So don't blink,
Think what was there but now's gone.
Black suit with the black Ray Ban's on.
Walk in shadow, move in silence,
Guardin against the GOP .
But yo we ain't on no government list.
We straight don't exist,
No names and no fingerprints.
Saw something strange,
Watch your back.
Cause you never quite know where the DNC's is at,
Uh and...
Here come the De-mo-crats. (DNC)
The galaxy defenders. (uh oh, uh oh)
Here come the De-mo-crats. (DNC)
The GOP is trap. (uh uh, uh uh)
Now from the deepest of the darkest of night,
On the horizon, bright light in the site tight,
Cameras zoom, only impending doom.
But then like BOOM black suits fill the room up.
With the quickness talk with the witnesses,
Hypnotizer, neuralizer.
Vivid memories turn to fantasies.
Ain't no GOP.
Can I please,
Do what we say that's the way we kick it.
Ya know what I mean,
I say my noisy cricket get wicked on ya.
We're your first, last and only line of defence,
Against the worst scum of the universe.
So don't fear us, cheer us.
If you ever get near us, don't jeer us.
We're the fearless.
DNC's freezin' up all the flack.
What's that stand for?
De-mo-crat.
Uh, M-m-m-...
The De-mo-crats
(Uh uh uh)
The Men in Black.
(Uh uh uh, ah ah ah)
Let me see ya just bounce it with me.
Just bounce with me.
Just bounce it with me. C'mon,
Let me see ya just slide with me.
Just slide with me.
Just slide with me. C'mon.
Let me see ya take a walk with me.
Just walk with me.
Take a walk with me. C'mon,
And make your neck work.
Now freeze.
Here come the De-mo-crats. (DNC)
The galaxy defenders. (ooh ooh)
Here come the De-mo-crats. (DNC)
We won't surrender. (uh no, no)
A-ight check it.
Let me tell you this in closin'.
I know we might seem imposin',
But trust me if we ever show in your section.
Believe me it's for your own protection.
Cuz these diesease be places we cant's see
And they be in places that they need not be.
So go with your life,
Forget that yesterday crap.
Show love to the black suit.
Cuz that's the De
That's the Mo in...Crat
Here come the De-mo-crats. (Here they come)
The galaxy defenders. (galaxy defenders)
Here come the De-mo-crats. (oh, here they come)
We'll call you back in December. (won't let you remember)
Here come the De-Mo-Crats. (Oh, here they come)
The galaxy defenders. (uh oh, uh oh)
Here come the De-Mo-Crats.
The GOP are just pretenders.
Whens the last time you saw a GOP'er bounce like a De-mo-crat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSRF3slguhI
Black Ray Bans * Green winky eye.
Don't get too excited about this guy. The only thing Romney has going for him is that he's better than Obama.
That's because the GOP base is sick and tired of this primary yak, yak, bickering they are willing to settle and move on and will settle with what appears to be the best candidate they have to offer, which to most GOP voters are not enthused about anyone but will take anyone.