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Handel. a former candidate for governor in georgia who pledged during that campaign to defund planned parenthood and used her position of vice president of public policy at the komen foundation to push planned parenthood into what became the disastrous public relations nightmare of defunding planned parenthood. michelle, we saw resignations last week at the komen foundation. now the question is, are there going to be firings? what happens next, and can handel survive? i think that there should be firings, although clearly when you look at a lot of the reporting out of the komen foundation, they still don t seem to get it. they still seem to have thought they could do this in a nonpolitical way that nobody would notice they would cut off planned parenthood under the guise of this new rule about investigations. they still seem to feel somewhat victimized. i think if handel resigned that ....
Enthusiasm behind his candidacy. that being said, the goal is to secure his nomination. i think he s well on his way to secure the nomination for a lot of different reasons. the goal is to secure the nomination in a style that then allows you and, in fact, helps you win the general election. the romney campaign seems to be a secure the nomination at all costs, including the political costs incurred in terms of jeopardizing his ability to win the general election. the problem is he s not that popular within his party, so he has to use a lot of money and carpet bombing of negative advertising to get there. he s not the convinced and convincing conserve dif in the race. now, he s benefitting from the fact that there isn t a perfect conservative alternative. each of these people who were opposing him have their problems. ron paul is the libertarian who can t sell himself really outside of that circle for the most part. ....
Missouri. we start in missouri. nbc news declares rick santorum as the projected winner in the missouri republican primary. rick santorum will finish first, mitt romney second, and ron paul third. newt gingrich was not on the ballot in this missouri primary contest. the primary is non-binding, the missouri republican party will caucus later this year to allocate delegates during their convention. the delegate count will not change. mitt romney will still, after tonight, have 84 delegates, newt gingrich 23, rick santorum 14, and ron paul 11. in the minnesota caucuses with 13% of the vote in, rick santorum has 43% with 3,551 votes. ron paul has 27% with 2,263 ....
At least. he may be the inevitable, but he s the weakest inevitable i ve seen. even though missouri, for example, was quote a beauty pageant and no delegates were directly at stake, the fact that rick santorum the numbers for rick santorum are lessig tonight than the numbers for mitt romney. right now 25% in missouri, 18% in third place in minnesota. supposedly he ll do better at the end of the night in colorado. this is a terrible, terrible statement to make about somebody who is supposed to be inevitable. part of it has to do with the way he s campaigned, and that has sunk in with voters including republican voters. i don t think there s any way you can interpret the vote in missouri, beauty contest though it may be, other than to say they don t think mitt romney s a beauty because he s campaigning so negatively. ....
The night that the santorum campaign was able to stay alive. absolutely they are. it s as your guests were discussing a few moments ago, it s pretty embarrassing for mitt romney to have numbers this weak against somebody like santorum. contests up to now in nevadanevada or in florida or south carolina for that matter. for rick santorum to get up off the mat and really clean mitt romney s clock in missouri and minnesota has got to be concerning to the romney campaign. jane, you ve been studying the romney campaign and the attack dog, who you wrote about this work in the new yorker. they tried to down-play the results today. here he is the prezumed pront runner in a party that one they know who their presumed nominee is, the republican voters have a way of getting on board with that. these republican voters are ....