Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Romney wins BIG in Florida

Please notice that I went three days without talking about newt.   And I won't say much tonight except that he unleashed his massive fury on Romney (even had a robocall going out today claiming that as governor Romney's budget cuts denied Holocaust survivors the money needed to buy Kosher food.  Or some such nonsense).

He could have saved all the trouble.   Only 1% of the voters in the GOP primary were Jewish.   Which suggests the large Jewish population in south Florida will vote for Obama, despite Repubs attempt to paint him as hostile to Israel.

Anyway, newt went ballistic trying to win in Florida and it didn't work.   His win in S.C. will, I believe, prove to be his high point.   Romney got more votes than Gingrich and Santorum combined -- so newt's claim the he would win if the conservative vote were not divided falls a little flat.

As of this writing with 98% reporting, Romney's lead is 46.4% to Gingrich's 31.9%, followed by Santorum at 13.4% an Paul at 7.0%.

Romney also won decisively in middle Florida (Tampa 19%, Orlando 15%).  Other than taking most of the small, less populated counties in north FL, newt took 5 south central counties whose collective vote was less than 2000.  And even in northern FL, Romney took the cities, though with smaller margins (Jacksonville 2%, Tallahassee 8%).

Exit polls say Romney won virtually every demographic group -- and won the women's vote by a very large margin.

I kept having to remind myself, when I feel excited by newt's getting trounced, that Romney is going to be the one I'm against, and that he's said some pretty awful thing about Obama.  But tonight, I wanted him to win BIG.  And he did.

A good come-uppance, to you, newt.  You don't even rate a capital N anymore.

Ralph

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