Five Percent Kind Of Sucks
MITT ROMNEY POLLING AT JIM MILES LEVEL IN SOUTH CAROLINA … WAIT, WHO THE HELL IS JIM MILES?
FITSNews - January 3, 2007 - If you’re involved in South Carolina politics - and have an ass - chances are it’s been kissed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at least once … maybe twice. After all, we Sandlappers (and some folks over in Iowa) are very important to Romney, so important as a matter of fact he’s completely reinvented himself as a hard-core social conservative just to appeal to us.
That’s why we about fell out of our hand-woven rope hammocks when we saw this story from Washington Post blogger extraordinaire Chris Cillizza.
Prior to reading Cillizza’s article, we would have put Mitt Romney’s level of support among South Carolina GOP Primary voters at about 10-12%, if for no other reason than 10-12% of South Carolina GOP Primary voters are complete idiots. That and let’s face it, next to John McCain, nobody has spent anywhere near the amount of time and money building a Palmetto State organization as Romney has.
Apparently, our 10-12% guess would have been wrong.
According to a Dec. 19-23 poll conducted by the American Research Group, Romney is currently polling at 5% in South Carolina.
In case you didn’t know, five percent is the number of individual percents you get if you hold up one of your hands and count the fingers on it (of course, if you are from Anderson County it might be six … maybe seven if you live in Rep. Michael Thompson’s district).
Anyway, the point is - five percent kind of sucks.
In fact, it does suck.
Seriously, Janet Jackson could show up at the South Carolina State House, expose one of her breasts and say “I’m running for President as a Republican” and probably get more than five percent. Garfield could probably get five percent, and he’s a cat. A cartoon cat, for crying out loud. Five percent is like the margin of error, or the outer ring on a piece of bologna. Five percent is what Alan Keyes got in 2000, and Alan Keyes is angry, people. Angry and crazy.
And yes, five percent is what Jim Miles got when he ran for governor in 2002.
Who?
Exactly.
Romney, who is polling at six percent in Iowa and nine percent in New Hampshire according to the poll, nonetheless announced the formation of his Presidential exploratory committee today, just like Nostradamus said he would.
The committee even has a spiffy new website complete with a title that sounds an awful lot like a Star Trek movie: “Mitt Romney - The Exploratory Committee 2008.”
Good grief.
Of course if Team Mitt can’t crack double digits in a single early primary state, the only thing they’ll be exploring is the down slope of his political career.
