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I would have thought in Arkansas they would have registered at Wal-mart!

I am the principal owner of a business in VA. I am sick of hearing Huckabee talk about CEOs and how no one cares about the workers. He's full of crap. We pay good salaries to our employees, but the cost of living (gas tripling!!!) concerns me greatly. I worry about my staff. Mitt Romney is the only one who has the business sense to bring us out of this mess. If you really listen to him, he has a global knowledge that no one else has. I've heard he is considering pulling in people who are experts such as Jack Welsh to streamline the government. What a novel idea!!!!

I am also a Christian, but I will vote for anyone before I vote for Huckabee. His and his wife's acceptance of gifts while governor is nauseating. The to sign up for a registry when they left office (Target and Dillards), how tacky. What would he expect as President? People who consider voting for him had better read more about his record. His quips do not entertain me. I want a leader with experience and knowledge. Mitt Romney fits the bill for me.

I believe that the voting system in this country is fatally flawed. Delegates, just as the Electoral College, really serve to rob the majority of American people of what they actually want. Although, often times, the people in both of these electing parties will go with the candidate of their states' choice, they also have the option not cast a vote for their states' decision on a candidate. Yes, they may face possible penalties from the people (ie. not being re-elected), but the damage is still done if their decision translates into either a party nomination or a presidential win. Honestly, I wonder why this isn't reported on more often...the media tends to "over-hype" the importance of the average person's vote in the race, rather than pointing out that no matter the outcome of the race, the American people lose every time. I call the the voting process "rigged for the establishment." Our people don't choose the president, our government does.

I just realized...and how could I miss it – this isn't a campaign – it's SURVIVOR – with all the drama to go with it. Where is SNL – Lorne Michaels should jump on this one!

Sorry guys, that last post was a cut and paste error. It was meant for another blog.

What drives me nuts is the way this is being reported.

AFTER TWO STUNNING LOSSES MITT ROMENY FINALLY PULLS OUT A WIN WITH MCCAIN COMING IN SECOND PLACE.

Whats wrong with this picture. So when MITT comes in 2nd its all about there only being a winner and everyone else is a looser. But when MITT wins all of a sudden McCain gets the lauded 2nd place?!?!?!? Talk about double standard.

And hardly any menttion at all that Michigan was by far the largest victory with the biggest point spread to date. Mitt beat McCain by almost 10 points and Huckabee was a very distant 3rd. But no mention of that nope!

This is a presidential election... If you watch the media you would think the Republic party is looking for a prom date. The media poses Huckabee as the popular guy (among conservatives), McCain as the rebel, and Romney as the class Valedictorian.

MY VOTE IS BASED ON THE ISSUES... not the picture the media paints.

MCCAIN:
My mom and I both pays attention on the issues and we disagree on a lot of politic issues. My family is pretty liberal although I am a very conservative Republican. MY MOM IS VOTING FOR HILLARY BUT LIKES MCCAIN TOO.

Based on the issues and what I have seen from the other Rep. candidates... I AM SUPPORTING ROMNEY and it wasn't that hard of a decision.

The media can spin it anyway they want too but I want the guy who has been at the top of the class in everything he has done to be President.

Another note for Romney fans, your has outspent in each primary caucus, all the other candidates COMBINED. That is not a good sign for future events. He will not be able to do this on super tuesday which means others will dictate his image, not him. The only thing that probably saved him in Michigan is that he did not have to "create" and image of himself. The Romney label was already known which was (I believe) THE reason why he won.

When Romney is contested in states where he has to define himself, he is having problems (NH and Iowa). The only states he has won is Wyoming, which no one contested him on and Michigan, where he had to spend ALOT more on resources than he ever thought he would have to.

He may win Nevada (because I don't see anyone contesting him there) but after that he is going to have some serious issues. I think his strategy is going to play ball in areas were the other candidates are not contesting and hoping he can rack up delegates. Not sure if that will work out in the long run.

Florida for him is the big test. If he competes hard and still can not win, his campaign will start folding after super tuesday.

This is Romney's problem. Outside of Michigan, Massachusetts and places where he spends a TON of money, his name recognition is not very good. That is going to be a series problem for him in states like Oklahoma, California and NY. Unless you have been following the presidential races, you don't now this guy. McCain on the other hand is a household name. Like him, hate him, you have heard of John McCain. Like him, hate him, you heard of Giuliani.

Another thing people don't realize is that winning is HUGE. It gives you free national press. But winning Wyoming and winning NH are two different ballgame. When Huckabee won Iowa, he had a week of free press. People all over the U.S. heard about Huckabee and started to formulate an opinion on him. His numbers nationally went from 2% to 22% within a week. McCain wins NH and he received almost a full weeks of national news coverage. His numbers skyrocketed. Think about this. Prior to winning NH, McCain Michigans numbers were sitting at around 9%. Without any organization in Michigan, and very little advertising, his numbers jumped to 30%.

On the other hand, Romney wins Wyoming. How much coverage did he get? Not even a news cycle. The debate was that night and he got his backside handed to him. He won delegates but 99% of americans outside of Wyoming didn't even realize there was a vote there. Absolutely NO effect on future elections.

So when it came to Michigan, I am curious if he was going to get a bounce. Looking at the national press articles and listening to the radio, my anwer is probably very little. The reason I come to this assumption was that most of the articles I am seeing is not about Romney "great win", but more on how the field is a little more chaotic/ muddled. Interesting to note, he made the morning news cycle on NPR but the afternoon cycle actually had a piece on McCain and his efforts in SC.

Most of the news is focusing on SC. This also is not going to come in Romney favor. He may win Nevada but the bit of news will be put on the shelf and the Winner of SC will get the big media boost. Romney problem, he might come in fourth in SC. He will be noted in SC as an also ran.

One thing to note: the number from Nevada will probably be out before voting closes in SC. I believe there caucus is 9AM. Which means, the results may be brought over the wire around 2 pm SC time. If McCain wins Nevada or comes in a strong 2nd, does this give him a little boost. Curious thing to watch.

Economy Romney has the right balance

McCain Dinosaur Rambo = WAR

I need a job not a war.

Hilarious and Bam Bam on the other side cannot seriously be considered.

Mitt should play Billy Flynn in Chicago on Broadway. Can he sing?

Romney '08!!!!!!!!!

Romney is the only choice for a conservative like myself who opposes amnesty for illegals (unlike McCain) and favors cutting taxes (unlike McCain). Romney is not only a wildly successful businessman, but an ethical person with a wholesome image for our country. Smart, energetic, wholesome, I say it's Romney in '08.

The consummate spinmeister: they declare where they're at, wherever that may be, to be the winner's place:

I'm in first place? That's exactly where I need to be. I'll get momentum!

I'm in second place? That's exactly where I need to be. I'll get delegates!

I'm in third place? That's exactly where I need to be. It shows I'm a top-tier candidate!

Give me a break. Everybody knows the winner of early primaries gets a bump in polls that can translate to enough momentum to win. The only candidate who is happy with second place is the candidate who thought they were going to get third.

There's only one candidate who has the guts to admit his mistakes and weaknesses. He ain't a Repub.

Brother Mitt appears to have fallen into the belief that you can buy anything in this world for money.

Now where have I heard that before...?

Romney is only man with the experience, skills, leadership, and morals to get the job done. He has more delegates and popular vote by a huge lead than any other candidate. He will continue to roll and will become the nominee. He is the only one who is competitive in all states and campaigns in all states- not cherry picking. You are the man, Mitt. We support you overseas!

It's so obvious that people who have been willing to LISTEN to candidates and not the MEDIA, are figuring out that Mitt Romney IS the best candidate for the Presidency. He can reach across the party lines, is brilliant with fantastic plans on how to unite us and ignite our economy. He has more integrity than all the other candidates combined (except for Obama) and isn't too old, as McCain and Thompson are.

Go Mitt, keep working hard, as you have your whole life. Don't look down, don't look back. We're supporting you all the way!!!!!!!!!!

If you're bad mouthing him, you obviously don't have an open mind and that's your problem to fix.

The truth is, if you simply look at the facts, Mitt Romney has been a failure at everything he has tried to do and is leaving burned bridge after burned bridge behind him. The fact is that he could not have been reelected as Mass governor had he tried; in fact they nearly threw him out on his ear (impeachment threats). He keeps on running away leaving messes for others to clean up, but nobody bothers to spend 10 minutes looking it up! In the Bush mold, her gives the good speeches his writers write, and then turns around, works only for the rich, and leaves everyone wondering what went wrong. GO MCCAIN!

The only comment that I have is this it is O.K for all the GOP canidates to use their Christian faith in there campaign if they so choose with no repracautions but if Govenor Romney even mentioned his faith he would be hung out to dry. Mitt Romneys faith should not be a concern After Govenor Romneys Faith speech, just so happens he is the only one that was forced to do this. CNN needs to give Mitt Romney the free press exposure as they do for all the others. If being married 3 to 4 times, 2 canidates GOP, atleast 1 GOP canidate has committed adultery numerous times and last but not least saying that all evangelical christians are obligated to vote for me in which Gov. Huck said at one of his campaign speeches than by all means vote for those canidates. If you want a qualified individual who has the smarts and and the knowledge to handle the stress of our president then Govenor Romney is the only qualified GOP canidate to be elected for the GOP nomination.

I will vote for Mitt if Hillary gets the nod from the Democrats. I am not sure why some people are so hateful about him. Is his religion that disturbing?

Yes ben, Mitt would make an excellent used car salesman, but then again, anything he sets his mind too he excels at it. Using the car analogy, yes, he would excel, and in ten years would own most of the dealerships in the US.

You've earned by vote Mitt!

Best of luck to all the candidates in the Primaries.

The nomination is determined by the number of delegates, and Romney has twice as many as the next guy. It's the media that focuses on the wins. Go Romney 2008!

Romney won and has been at the top of every primary, because he is the only well-rounded conservative with a chance on winning the presidency. Here’s why:
He has more executive experience than any candidate.
He is a strong social conservative.
He has vision for change
He can turn around other mistakes made prior to his taking the Job. (Bain Capital, Olympics, MA. Huge deficit, Big Dig Fiasco, and he'll do the same in Iraq)
Huckabee is a nice guy... so is Jimmy Carter
Mccain is a great american but he continually pals around with Kennedy, Lieberman, Feingold etc..
Be Smart. Look at the Facts.

Mitt ROCKS

Romney has the Republican base and he should.

Huckabee is a Liberal using his socially conservative views to cover the rest of the not so conservative ones.

McCain has had YEARS to make a difference in Washington and the only thing he fought for was amnesty for millions of illegals! No thanks McCain. Your time is up!

Romney is a moderate conservative across the board. He is smart on the economy, opposes amnesty, is pro-family, pro military, and is intelligent enough to handle the war.

Romney is the candidate for me!

I agree. He would pretty much make a great anything because he's the man! I just can't wait to see how bad he beats McCain and Huckabee when Democrats and independents can't vote!

Nevada! I Hate to blow smoke up you skirt, but Romney hates gambling and all that Nevada money stands for. Do you really think he will work for you? No he will not! As far as the immigrants, his beliefs did not even admit there were any other race but white into there doors untill the late 60's years! I hope he enjoys his win because that will be his last! We can only Pray!!

Confused in CT,

The reason he is not considered the "front-runner" even though he has the most delegates is because the number of delegates you have to have to win the nomination is around 1100. Mitt only has 36, which is about 3% of the total amount he'll need. Now, he still is clearly on top, but come Super Tuesday, who knows!!

I think he will do great in this election and am looking forward to checking his name on the box here in california!

Romney '08!!

Go Mitt Go! Run Mitt Run!

You are not fooling me Mitt. You know that Huckabee has a good chance to win South Carolina as well. If Huckabee wins, McCain starts to fade away and Mitt knows he can take down Huckabee.

The Republican presidential contest this year reminds of a WWF wrestling event, Royal Rumble, evenbody gets to get in and swing.

Ya ditto to Eric's comment. Now lets count exactly how many times CNN has mentioned McCains, Thompson, Ron Paul or for that matter anyones religious affiliation.I for one would sure like to have this not be about religion , gender,race the best hair or the most money but rather policy. Do the public a big favor and just report the news CNN !!!!!

Amen to Eric! I still shake my head at most articles written by CNN. You can't talk about NV without a Mormon comment. How come that didn't seem important when Rudy was winning NV by a landslide?

Also, how is it that Mitt has been ahead in delegates since the second race and you've never heard of him as the front runner although as soon as McCain wins with a bunch of Democrat and Indy votes in NH (a tiny, tiny state–with the same or fewer delegates than WY) all of a sudden McCain is the clear front runner and soon to be crowned nominee? Doesn't any of that strike you as odd and biased?

Here's a tip – get more of your TV journalists to write more of the articles. They're still biased (except Schneider, generally) but much less so.

Confused in CT
You are not the only one who is confused by this..Romney has been ahead in delegates for quite awile, and now has double what the others have, how is that muddled, how is he not the frontrunner? McCain wins New Hampshire and that rockets him to frontrunner? Interesting indeed! Gotta love CNN!

Although from far away (Brazil), I'm following US primaries and I was surprised with the importance people and press were giving to whom is first. I always thought the number of delegates mattered most, in the end. Thus, I think Romney is, so far, a very strong candidate.

Romanna Remor, Florianópolis – Brazil

MITT ROMNEY would make an excellent used car salesman

Nice to see CNN drop a Mormon comment about Nevada, like Mitt can't win unless he is from there or there are lots of Mormons or something. We saw after how many Evangelicals voted for Huckabee in Michigan.

Mitt is on a ROLL! He already has DOUBLE the number of delegates of any other candidate and I believe he is going to win this thing. No one is better suited right now to take this country where it needs to go.

Romney's comment re: importance of delegates makes sense to me.

So why is it that McCain supposedly "skyrocketed" to front-runner status when he won NH but had fewer total delegates than Romney? And now that Romney has won the most states (WY, MI) and delegates, he is not a front-runner and the GOP race is muddled?

This is one of the reasons I am voting for Romney. Brilliance and humility.

For the first time, Romney didn't flip on that one and he is so right. No wonder Clinton win didn't matter no matter how uncooth uncivilized she is by leaving her name on the ballot. I am voting on Obama because he does what is right all the time and would make a fine president!

Thanks CNN for finally giving Mitt some decent coverage. I guess for some people they need to win two states and get a clear majority of delagates for them to get some attention.

I've been listening, Mitt!!! I hear ya. I'm no prodigy in math (balance my bank account okay) – but sounds right to me!!! GO MITT!!! Let's pick up Nevada!

Go Mitt!