Romney Gives Up on FL and SC
Mitt Romney has pulled all paid ads in Florida and South Carolina, where he has spent $5.5M combined. Instead, Romney is going to concentrate his efforts on winning his birth state of Michigan. It is hard to see this as anything but conceding these in hopes of winning in Michigan this Tuesday and using that to vault ahead. Perhaps we will live-blog his withdrawal from the race on Tuesday. If so, watch for Dave Burris to jump on the McCain bandwagon faster than you can say “Anyone but Huckabee.”
Tags: 2008 Presidential
*golf clap*
Well played sir.
I watched the NH coverage last night and a close advisor on MSNBC said Romney may not make it too much further.
His financial burn rate is too high. This news is a sign that trouble exists in the Romney camp.
The guy raised $5 million TODAY. He pulled out of SC and FL for a week because his ad buys have gotten him what he wanted. He went from the low single digits a year ago to the thick of the hunt in both states.
A Michigan win will do more for Romney than ad buys in SC and FL. They’re adjusting to this election and its nuances. They’re seeing the wild momentum swings for each candidate, and they know what that means.
Remember, folks. No one has gotten more delegates or more votes out of the first three state elections than Romney, and no one is set up in every state like Romney.
Dave – was unaware of the money raised today. That is very encouraging for Romney, as his burn rate has been too high to sustain a long campaign.
SC and FL are pivotal Southeast states. I hope that that pulling ads don’t backfire.
We shall see…and only the voters know what is going on….
Dave beat me to the punch. He has enough money to run every primary until 2014, if he wants.
He has more delegates I believe at this point than either of the two Bushes did after NH.
I think Huckabee has the most delegates at 31 to Romney’s 19.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/01/romneys-fishy-d.html
And the AP concurs with ABC.
Romney and Dave arte lying about the delagates. Dana has the story.
Jason
See the following link for the delegate count. Romney is in the lead.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/
on another note, wish I had some better news for your guy… Kerry to back Obama for president
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080110/ap_on_el_pr/obama_kerry_2;_ylt=ApKxEMK3nNvnnz6RPKSrDhhh24cA
Oh Geez, John Kerry reporting for duty again…
OK, so Romney has stopped advertising in SC because he is doing well? The polling that I see has Huck winning by between 12 and 17 points with the Rominator 3000 at 19%. Please don’t try to put lipstick on that pig.
In FL, Rudy leads with Rominator in a 3rd place finish.
Michigan is a toss-up with Huck, McCain and the Rominator bunched up. Face it, if Romney doesn’t win there, he’s done. Wyoming be damned.
Look at Johnny Cakes citing a bastion of “liberal” MSM, CNN, to counter the delegate count of ABC News and the Associated Press. Pretty neat.
And on no, Kerry endorses Obama. Perhaps we should take that discussion to the “who gives a shit” channel. Bob Dole was a weak GOP presidential candidate, who is he endorsing, who cares. Is he even still alive?
Keep riding the Romney train though. It amuses me. I’ve been reading up on some of the details of the history of Mormonism. Wow. It is the 19th century Scientology for real. It has simply been sanitized and brought to the center over time. Check out Noah Feldman’s essay in Sunday NYT magazine.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/magazine/06mormonism-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin
Consider this from Feldman:
“If Mormonism were to keep Romney from the nomination, the Mormon Church hierarchy may through continuing revelation and guidance respond by shifting its theology and practices even further in the direction of mainstream Christianity and thereby minimizing its outlier status in the culture. Voices within the LDS fold have for some time sought to minimize the authority of some of Joseph Smith’s more creative and surprising theological messages, like the teaching that God and Jesus were once men. You could imagine Mormonism coming to look more like mainline Protestantism with the additional belief not in principle incompatible with Protestant Scripture that some of the lost tribes of Israel ended up in the Americas, where a few had a vision of Christ’s appearance to them. If this hypothetical picture of a future Mormonism seems unimaginable to the contemporary LDS faithful, as it may, today’s Mormon theology would look almost as different to Brigham Young.
Religious development, driven by turns from within and without, is, after all, the mark of a vital faith. Today we do not think of the Catholic pope as the occupant of the pagan Roman office of pontifex maximus, but of course the pontiff is precisely that: the living exemplar of how Christianity met, conquered and was changed by the very empire that presided over the crucifixion. All religions assimilate and change, even as they claim to hew to the old truths.”
Here’s a question. If religion is all about “old” universal truths how come they just change with the zeitgeist? How is this transformation “vital” to faith? What do they have “faith” in if you can simply change it to pander to the culture (and the electorate)?
Yup, DG, whatever it takes to keep the sheep inside the pen and the coffers full.
Bob Dole was a weak GOP presidential candidate, who is he endorsing, who cares. Is he even still alive?
Still kicking. He just endorsed tapiaco pudding for desert.
Is this really an indication of Romney’s weakness or just an indication that all of the Republican candidates are pursuing a “pick and choose” strategy of only campaigning hard in selected states, since nobody can afford to be everywhere?
All of which makes it possible that nobody comes out of Super Tuesday with a delegate majority. Can anybody say “brokered convention”?