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The Hill notes of the poll that “Romney has made inroads among independents, according to the latest poll from Purple Strategies.”
An important reminder: Micah Cohen at FiveThirtyEight: “[T]he election is still more than six months away, and in the past 10 presidential campaigns, the national polling leader in late April has won the election only half of the time.” Chart attached.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus claimed on FOX, per GOP 12, that the GOP has better messengers to Latinos than Democrats. “Our messengers are better -- Marco Rubio, Luis Fortuno, Susana Martinez, Brian Sandoval. Messengers are better,” he boasted.
One of those guys is an official in a U.S. territory, not a state that votes for president and another doesn’t speak Spanish. That said, Democrats would love to have more high-profile Latinos to pick from that are governors and senators.
“Reports that Newt Gingrich will end his presidential campaign - but not for a week - only underscore the quixotic nature of his candidacy,” the Boston Globe’s Johnson writes, adding, “his notorious self-absorption, manifested last summer in a mid-campaign Mediterranean vacation that prompted a widescale staff defection, raised the specter of a candidacy rooted not so much in winning his party’s nomination but salving a desire to reaffirm his stature within GOP circles. The suspected endgame? To reap the attendant rewards through future speaking fees and book sales.”
GOP 12’s Heinze makes the case for what Gingrich accomplished, but also writes, “Gingrich reminds me of the inventor of the ‘chopstick fan’, which uses a fan to cool down the noodles on your chopstick so you don’t have to burn your tongue. I can’t decide if that’s brilliant or moronic.”
Political Wire notes this Molly Ball item about what Romney owes Gingrich, Santorum, and the rest: "By behaving childishly and running totally amateurish campaigns, they made Romney look good. Next to Santorum's inability to stay on message, Romney's gaffes looked minor. Next to Gingrich's petulant posturing, Romney looked like a grown-up. Next to both men's improvised, bare-bones efforts, Romney's flawed operation looked like the Cadillac of political campaigns. In losing in the most undignified manner possible, Gingrich made Romney shine. And for that, Romney owes Gingrich his gratitude."
Rick Perry finally got behind Romney.
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Priebus says our Latinos are better than your Latinos!
Good grief...shades of Ann Coulters' ---'our Blacks are better than your Blacks'!
It's about policies.........Disgusting comment Priebus!
chilled,
anyone who makes statements like that must be a moron - but then again, we are talking about Ann Coulter and the War-on-Catepillars-Priebus.
True bayllie!
Of course, in typical left leaning fashion, you have taken her words out of context. That's a trait Obama has completely mastered. It fools only the lazy feeble minded. Check out Politico. There's an article there which states those much desired "independents" only have a 27% favorabilty rating of the federal government.
Doesn't bode well for the Big O and the Democratically controlled Senate.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus claimed on FOX, per GOP 12, that the GOP has better messengers to Latinos than Democrats. “Our messengers are better -- Marco Rubio, Louis Fortuno, Susana Martinez, Brian Sandoval. Messengers are better,” he boasted.
"One of those guys isn’t even a U.S. official and another doesn’t speak Spanish"
Did David Axelrod feed that liberal talking point response, or was it Media Matters? I doubt you researched that yourself.
Are you saying the Governor of Puerto Rico is not a "US official"? No doubt if a conservative said that it would be tarred as racist and disrespectful to the Government of Puerto Rico.
Lies of the GOP & Tea bagger, Citizens United and all the Alec corps ( WALMART ) that pay off the Politician. Its all about the Wealthy getting richer and the middle class getting poorer.....They don't want to help the poor, I do mean the poor not the lazy good for nothings...Who are the one's that leach off the taxpayer. The Wealthy: they get welfare both for themselves an for the Corps. ...But it seems that the Wealthy get away with it ..They steal billions and the few poor steals a few thousands. So what does the GOP want, is Screw the MIddle Class to get even with the few. As I say its the me me me and F everyone else.... The failures of the Republicans party trying to take away SS & Medicare & Health care for Woman so they can give their wealthy Blackmailers more money...To hell with the Poor and Needy. Let them freeze in the winter and stave the Old and Babies,let them die from bad water, do away with the EPA and thats what you'll have, just like all you Tea baggers want...You make me sick with your Me Me Me altitude. It just a matter of time before the masses raise up against you . Greedy and you all call yourself Christians, Christains. What a laugh: Wake up America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WAKE UP
maze you are really confused. The democraps moonbats are not wanting to tax the rich to give the middleclass a break. Wonder Boy is going to spend that revenue on bigger government. Why would your dumb ass think I give a crap about the rich if it would reduce my taxes. You talk about the rich stealing and the poor stealing. Its the rich on both sides, its the jesse jackson and the al sharptons on the poor side and the union crooks sticking their paws in the poor's money so they can be rich. Chitown is the most crooked city in this country when it comes to ripping of the poor. Trickle down is failue in more ways than one, if you think tax dollars trickle down to the pockets of the poor you are smoking some strange sh*( to go with the koolaide. And you are paying for the smoke with money meant for poor people.
Polls are like bungholes, everybody has one and the results are all poop.
(rigged or at the very least influenced in some way by the entity conducting it)
Amazing thing about statistics is that you can interpret them to meet any premise you wish to prove....Glass half empty? Glass half full? Partly Cloudy vs Partly Sunny..... It is scary to think that a huge chunk of the voting public is swayed by these polls instead of actually looking at the candidates and making the best choice based upon fact. At times I don't see a great difference between our national election and the nonsense we went through in High School electing the Homecoming King and Queen....this is so much more important and yet we haven't grown beyond high school.