Karl Rove: What’s REALLY Happening In The Race For President
March 8, 2012
Karl Rove: The Inside Story
From The Wall Street Journal and national strategist Karl Rove:
Every Republican running for president got something on Super Tuesday. Not all they wanted, but enough to convince themselves to carry on, making it likely the GOP race goes on for months, not weeks.
Ron Paul didn’t finally win a state. But he took 41% of the vote in Virginia—his highest percentage in this primary season—and picked up 22 delegates in the evening’s 10 contests.
One-State Winner...But Intent On Staying IN
Newt Gingrich won Georgia—the state that elected him to Congress for nearly two decades—with almost half the vote, a strong performance. He would have lost all credibility had he lost. He had failed to turn in enough signatures to get on the Virginia ballot, and he came in third in the other Southern states up for grabs on Tuesday, behind Rick Santorum (who took the gold medal in Tennessee and Oklahoma) and Mitt Romney (who took the silver in both). The former House speaker must now win Alabama or Mississippi next week even to remain a regional candidate.
Mr. Santorum won three states, adding a surprise win in the North Dakota caucuses to his two Southern victories. He almost doubled his delegate count, going to 176 from 92, according to the Associated Press tally. And he nearly won the critical battleground state of Ohio, until late returns from Cleveland and Cincinnati and their suburbs erased his lead after midnight.
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Mitt Romney in Belmont, Mass., on Super Tuesday.
The Fight Goes On
Mitt Romney won the most Tuesday night—most states (six of 10), most votes, and most delegates. He nearly erased the gap among non-college graduates that’s plagued him throughout the primaries, and he once again carried Catholic voters despite the presence of Mr. Santorum, a deeply committed Catholic.
Mr. Romney picked up a majority of the night’s delegate haul, winning 212 of the 394 awarded by the AP (29 more are still to be parceled out).
This gives Mr. Romney 415 delegates—54% of those won so far, and more than a third of the 1,144 needed for the nomination. Mr. Santorum trails with 176, followed by Mr. Gingrich with 105 and Mr. Paul with 47.
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Right now voters across the country are still willing to look at a field of four. But in another month? With Fall looming? Time is running out for Republicans to get their engines running for the biggest presidential fight…ever.
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Good, let it drag out. It was stupid to have cranked it up so soon – in the hopes it would end early, giving Obama a clear playing field wiht all eyes and cameras on him AGAIN, a la 2012? No thanks.
I think all of this is orchestrated by Obama’s camp. The more the Republican candidates fight amongst themselves, the more the public dislikes them. People want to know what they are gonna do if they become president. They want them to talk about Obama and how WRONG his policies are for America. Now the closer we get to the Republican Convention to choose our candidate, the water couldn’t be bloodier. No one has a clear picture of what these men stand for.
Let’s clear the waters and stop attacking each other. We need to know what these men will do to help set America back on the right path.
Please encourage the candidates to stop attacking each other and start talking about their qualifications. These attacks are generated by the Liberal Media as a way to prevent progress.
I just want to know why you, ann coulter and all the other wealthy established republicans should tell all of us hard working people who our canidate should be. We don’t believe any of you. Have you looked at the approval rating of congress lately. I wish the american people had the guts to vote every one of them out of office and put some hard working individuals into office that are for the people not for padding their pockets. I have yet to meet an honest politician and Romney I don’t believe anything he says. He is nothing more than Barack Obama in white skin. Our country is in trouble and the people that are running does not speak highly of the ability of the republican party to provide a canidate that will produce change. I hope it goes to a brokered convention and the delegates nominate someone other than what is on the ticket now. We want a true conservative and that is not Romney.