I’ve addressed this a few times. But it’s probably worth doing again.
This morning I got this email from TPM Reader SL …
I don’t really hear anyone talking about what Romney would do if (he loses Michigan) and the GOP leaders look for a white horse candidate. Does anyone really think he would just step aside for a new nominee or hand over his delegates at a brokered convention?
Mitt Romney just did a press availability and gave a revealing answer when asked about his problems exciting the GOP base.
It’s very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments. We’ve seen throughout the campaign if you’re willing to say really outrageous things that are accusative, attacking of President Obama, that you’re going to jump up in the polls. I’m not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support. I am who I am.
So, sure I could excite these people if I said a bunch of crazy stuff. But that’s not how I roll. Read More
It’s election day in Michigan. And we seem to be closing on controversy or actually pseudo-controversy about robocalls — specifically, calls from Rick Santorum and others from a GOP PAC encouraging Dems to vote for Santorum to send a message to Romney. Without anything really left to say, this is what it’s come down to.
The final TPM Poll Average Romney 37.3%, Santorum 36.6%, Paul 10.7% and Gingrich 8.8%. In other words, less than a point separate the two front runners.
The sovereign citizen movement is for many states no longer just a nuisance to be put up with, but a serious law enforcement issue to be confronted.
We now have two new polls from Michigan in tonight. One has Santorum up by 1, the other has Romney up by 2. The latter, however, shows a strong move in Santorum’s favor since the pollster last survey four days ago. The upshot is basically a deadlock.
The latest (final?) TPM Poll Average of the race is Romney 37.5%, Santorum 36.9%, Paul 11.6%, Gingrich 8.7%.
Poll chart after the jump … Read More
Earlier we reported that Rick Santorum’s campaign is running a robocall calling on Michigan Democrats to cross into the GOP primary and vote for Rick Santorum. We’ve now uncovered another robocall campaign pushing the same message — getting Democrats to vote for Santorum tomorrow in order to send a message to Romney. This one is paid for by a GOP political action committee called Freedom’s Defense Fund.
There were some hints in today’s polls suggesting some bit of a tide back in Rick Santorum’s direction in Michigan. And before the night is out we should have two more polls (possibly the last) from Michigan. One from PPP and the other from Foster McCollum White & Associates. They may give us some final hint about where this thing is going.
We’ll post the results as soon as they’re released.
At an event tonight in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Santorum supporters were surprised to hear their man’s campaign is running robocalls calling on Dems to come into the GOP primary for vote for Santorum.
Part poetry, part whimsy, part kinda weird. Completely hilarious.