GINGRICH MOVES AHEAD OF MITT IN NEW PALMETTO STATE POLL
The see-saw 2012 presidential election has seen yet another momentum shift – assuming the results of a new Insider Advantage poll are to be believed.
According to this new survey of likely South Carolina Republican primary voters – taken on Wednesday night – former U.S. Speaker Newt Gingrich has surged to a three-point lead over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the Palmetto State’s pivotal “First in the South” primary.
After four polls taken within the last week showed Romney with a double-digit lead, the new Insider Advantage survey has Gingrich at 32 percent, Romney at 29 percent and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul at 15 percent. Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum came in fourth at 11 percent, while Texas Gov. Rick Perry has seen his support slip all the way down to 3 percent.
The Insider Advantage poll surveyed 718 likely voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.
Prior to the publication of that survey, CNN released a new poll taken from January 13-17 which also showed positive momentum for Gingrich. In the CNN poll, Romney’s 19-point lead had been trimmed to 10 points in the space of a week.
Frankly, we’re not as excited about these developments as some Republicans are.
After all, if Gingrich is the “anti-Romney,” then Republicans are in real trouble in November. Not only is he unelectable against Barack Obama, but Gingrich’s record of betraying the ideals that the Republican Party is supposed to stand for is every bit as obvious as Romney’s (speaking of … here’s a piece we wrote back in mid-December when it appeared as though Gingrich, not Romney, was poised to claim the “presumptive nominee” mantle).
Anyway, the five remaining GOP candidates will get one last chance to sway South Carolina voters when they debate on Thursday night in Charleston, S.C.
As he during during their recent Myrtle Beach, S.C. debate, our founding editor will live blog the proceedings.
Expect … oh hell, who knows what to expect anymore in this ridiculous exercise in GOP indecision.
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By ? January 19, 2012 at 12:37 am
The GOP horror show rolls on.
By Richie January 19, 2012 at 1:39 am
Newt the history-buff hypocrite.
By Dr. (Well I'll Be) M.D. January 19, 2012 at 8:16 am
Don’t fool yourself there Richie Rich….They all are (and have been) Hypocrites! The only difference is Newt can remember yesterday and the rest obviously have a hard time remembering their own name!
By Thomas January 19, 2012 at 4:28 am
Mitt the Ripper
Long Haul Paul
still working on names for the other candidates.
Personally I like Paul and Gingrich. Those two, thats it. Romney is too uninspiring, paul holds to my values to a tee. Gingrich is sharp.
By Debbie January 19, 2012 at 6:45 am
There was a good program on last night questioning Romney’s Cayman Island Tax shelters. Romney is total self-serving hypocrite a real me, me, me, me type of guy with no morals or principles.
By Carl Childers January 19, 2012 at 7:03 am
Interesting take on Romney. However, one question: If you had real money like Romney (like $200MM) would you let it sit here in the US and be taxed at a higher rate, or transfer it to a lower tax rate country?
Or more in general, do you pay a higher tax rate than you have to, or do you minimize your taxes legally?
By vicupstate January 19, 2012 at 7:27 am
If everyone else gets to put their money in the Cayman Islands, then I have no problem with it, other than it would bankrupt our country.
I don’t begrudge Romney his wealth, if it is earned honestly. I begrudge him the ability to skip out on paying his fair share.
Romney should run for President of the Cayman Islands.
By eggaday January 19, 2012 at 7:56 am
Hey Carl, if I had money like Romney, I’d give most of it to charity or I’d personally pay down some of my ” homeland’s” debt. Nah, I wouldn’t shelter it and keep it… no way. I’d use it for good.
You asked.
I agree, let Romney go rule the Cayman’s.
By Dr. (Well I'll Be) M.D. January 19, 2012 at 8:23 am
DEB, you are very correct and you will find that Romney pays more like 10-12% if that towards taxes if he ever shows his tax returns. Certainly not the 15% he stated. Also, while he was stating that, he thought everyone else should pay 25% towards taxes. That’s everybody but him that is!
By Debbie January 19, 2012 at 9:52 am
Carl I have an issue on how Mittens got some of that money, and why they attacked my kids and me to cover it up. EXCUSE, me but Mittens and family didn’t mind corrupting the court in my county, putting my ex up to abusing, lying and cheating and his DORK mormon second wife threatening my kids into not talking or else.
Then Mittens having his MICHIGAN bundler David T. Fischers sister in law sell the my home which the ex put into foreclosure — then I get a call from some dork Mormon telling me to get federal assistance for people in foreclosure to secure housing?! On a personal level I am totally ticked at the greedy, lying, self-centered SOB Romney family.
By Debbie January 19, 2012 at 9:56 am
I have the advantage over most of you. I know some of the Romney family they are A**H**l*S.
Seriously, they abuse people and enjoy doing it. They have allowed kids to suffer abuse and think it is funny. They are a horrible narcissistic, overly entitled family corrupt and greedy to the hilt.
By rwwllms January 19, 2012 at 10:35 am
[i]Romney is total self-serving hypocrite a real me, me, me, me type of guy with no morals or principles.[/i]
Which explains why haley is backing him. Two birds of a feather.
By Naive January 19, 2012 at 8:04 am
Does Romney have friends at ABC news? This upcoming interview with Newt’s soulmate-mistress-muse (sound familiar?) cum second wife is looming large. Apparently Marianne Gingrich was happy to be the “other woman” who ascended to wife, but not so happy to be a scorned one. Cry me a river….
By Debbie January 19, 2012 at 9:57 am
I think the program on Mittens was on ABC. I would check however to see if the Mormon Church owns an interest in ABC.
By dirtbogger January 19, 2012 at 8:18 am
the thing about people like Romney that rule the country, they expect the working class to support the country, and yet they do everything under the sun not to have pay there fair share.
By Dr. (Well I'll Be) M.D. January 19, 2012 at 8:30 am
SIC…Your site is obviously a major boon for Gingrich whether you like it or not. If it is not totally clear for everyone by now, it will be after tonights debate. Gingrich wins hands down!
By Dr. Sheldon Cooper January 19, 2012 at 9:00 am
Clearly. Perry babbles, Santorum’s wife is a baby killing sugar daddy humper, and Paul is too freaky.
By James the Foot Soldier January 19, 2012 at 8:47 am
I love it.
South carolinians stands ready to snatch yet anoteher defeat from the jaws of victory mere days after polls show Mitt beating Obama like a drum in the swing states.
Newt is Obama’s bff.
By Dr. Sheldon Cooper January 19, 2012 at 9:02 am
Wat? You got that backwards home slice.
By Dr. (Well I'll Be) M.D. January 19, 2012 at 9:02 am
James…grab your duffle bag a your backpack and fill them both with shoes ’cause it’s probably going to be a long long walk for you!
By Dr. (Well I'll Be) M.D. January 19, 2012 at 9:09 am
that would be…aND your backpack…
By dirtbogger January 19, 2012 at 9:04 am
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2.htm
By dirtbogger January 19, 2012 at 9:07 am
If this interview will destroy the Gingrich candidacy, then it really does not matter whether it airs today or Monday … unless ABC’s goal it to protect Gingrich long enough for him to keep Ron Paul from coming in second in South Carolina!
By Dr. (Well I'll Be) M.D. January 19, 2012 at 9:16 am
The interview with his ex will come off whiny AND THIN and will just make people less empathetic than they all ready are towards her. The real question here is: WHO’S PAYING HER AND HOW MUCH IS SHE GETTING PAID?
By Dr. (Well I'll Be) M.D. January 19, 2012 at 9:06 am
Hey Doc Coop…It’s good to know there are some reasonably intelligent individuals in this world!
By Dr. Sheldon Cooper January 19, 2012 at 10:54 am
Thank You & Back at You
By James the Foot Soldier January 19, 2012 at 9:13 am
Gingrich as the republican party standard-bearer gives Obama 400 electoral college votes, maintains a Senate majority for the dems, and shrinks the GOP house to a meaningless majority.
Voting for a two time adulterer and disgraced congressman who has only shown an ability to win a lily white congressional district…and then turned tail like a coward and quit??
So by all means, vote for Gingrich and repel any and all independent voters (the voters who actually decide national elections by the way) back into the democrats’ lap.
By Dr. (Well I'll Be) M.D. January 19, 2012 at 9:19 am
James…you my friend, resemble that remark!
By Centrist View January 19, 2012 at 9:25 am
Ron Paul for the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
By ? January 19, 2012 at 12:03 pm
haha! He wouldn’t be there too long. He’d transition us from meaningless dollars to a backed currency, whether it’s bimetallic or some other bread basket of commodities.
By snodgrass January 19, 2012 at 9:47 am
If every SC citizen had to pay a ten dollar fee to cast a vote on Saturday, do you really think these candidates would finish in the same order that they’re polling? Do you think people really have enough faith in these losers to put their money where their mouth is?
I’m guessing Ron Paul would take at least sixty percent of the vote.
By ? January 19, 2012 at 12:04 pm
Even better, if you had to be a “net taxpayer” into the system, how do you think the vote would shake out?
46% of the country wouldn’t even be eligible to vote(rightfully!).
By WorkingTommyC January 19, 2012 at 9:58 am
Gingrich has been very clever in his strategy here talking in person to many of the tea party leaders in SC and showing up anywhere there is a microphone and talking even when most of the crowd may ignore his speech as has occurred on at least one occasion that I know of.
Gingrich has flattered a lot of these people by telling them whatever they want to hear. His so-called “celebrity” and “deigning” to speak to what he considers to be the “little people” are all part of his manipulation technique.
Like his good buddy, Bill Clinton, Gingrinch is a sociopathic liar who would sell (has sold?) his soul to the devil to achieve power. His modus operandi over the years has been to raise money through fear mongering letters for various foundations/front groups and taking tax payer money (1.6 million dollars to be a historian/lobbiest for Freddie Mac for one) whenever he can. For example, one of the many organizations he has created was just a front to provide a salary for his biographer. These sorts of shenanigans are why he was the only U.S. Speaker of the House to be convicted of ethics violations and fined $300,000. The “historian” doesn’t like to talk about that particular bit of American history.
Another thing he has done is to have his acolytes put on a forum where several other candidates are advertised, getting c. 700 people to show up at the USC Aiken Convocation Center Tuesday on the false premise of getting to see their candidates. Instead they were exposed to only Gingrich giving a lengthy professorial lecture wherein he declared that HE, the great genius social experimenter can run the economy and our lives better than we can.
The newspapers and online sites concerning the event noted that not everyone was confirmed but K.T. Ruthven was falsely claiming that Ron Paul had committed in addition to Gingrich. The event organizers were even telling people at the door as they were entering that Ron Paul and Rick Perry were going to be there in addition to the Grinch. At ten bucks a head, those who didn’t find out from more reliable and less fraudulent sources that their candidates were not going to be there were disappointed and wound up contributing several thousand dollars based on the Aiken County GOP’s gross misrepresentation of the event.
By Dr. (Well I'll Be) M.D. January 19, 2012 at 10:17 am
Tommy…with all that being said,let me guess, you voted for Nikki Haley didn’t you?
By WorkingTommyC January 19, 2012 at 10:47 am
Yep! I voted for Haley. We got roll call voting, too, didn’t we?
That’s all I needed and none of the good ol’ boys running were going to do it.
If you want someone new as Gov. next time around, I’m open to suggestions. (We may not even have to wait that long if Romney gets the nomination and selects her as VP or appoints her to some position–IF he can beat Obama, that is–which I doubt.)
By Dr. (Well I'll Be) M.D. January 19, 2012 at 10:58 am
come on tommy……you are very transparent!
By WorkingTommyC January 19, 2012 at 11:52 am
If I’m so transparent, explain it to me because I have no clue what you’re getting at.
By Alabaster II January 19, 2012 at 10:35 am
Doubt if the second Mrs. Gingrinch will have any influence over the voters with whatever she has to say about her marriage to Newt. It’s an old story and people should be wise to note that this is a gimmick by some money people to make Newt look bad. If she wanted the whole world to know her story, she would have done so when Newt started to campaign for the Presidency.
By Dr. Sheldon Cooper January 19, 2012 at 10:53 am
Amazing, The ABC Special with the Gingrich ex-wife paints the man as a womanizing, no family values, no sanctity of marriage, no nothing but a self centered, unethical con man. Why didn’t Nikki Haley endorse him instead?
By Dr. House January 19, 2012 at 10:55 am
Haley and Gingrich are so similar it is uncanny.
By Alabaster II January 19, 2012 at 11:17 am
Sanford, too
By ceilidh10 January 19, 2012 at 11:58 am
You would think he would be thinner and leaner having all that sex with a much younger Callista…..
By ? January 19, 2012 at 12:06 pm
If the GOP voters still go for Newt they are hopeless. I never again want to hear about “morals” from GOPers if it happens.
By Mr. Dixie January 19, 2012 at 1:55 pm
I wonder how many times Newt has had to be treated for Clap. Do they ever have to release their medical records ? Romney should agree to release his tax returns if Newt releases his medical records.
By Say What? January 19, 2012 at 4:29 pm
Let’s see those polls after his ex-wife goes on national television to talk about “open marriages.” There goes any Christain followers and a lot of women!
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