Quinnipiac has a poll out of Florida this morning which has Mitt Romney up by 2 points. But the internals are key. The poll straddles the South Carolina primary: three days (254 interviews) before and two days (347 interviews) after the results. Before the primary Romney was up by 11 points; after Newt was up by 6 points. So we still have the same basic picture of Newt making dramatic gains in the wake of the Saturday’s results.
The new data brings the TPM Poll Average of Florida is Gingrich 35.8%, Romney 32.3%, Santorum 10.9%, Paul 9%.
Trend chart after the jump … Read More
Mayor of town whose police force charged with rampant abuse of Latino residents declares: Let Them Eat Tacos!
Romney tells Univision: “I would love to be able to convince people of that, particularly in a primary in Florida. [But] I don’t think people would think I was being honest with them if I said I was Mexican-American.”
Senate Dems work on plans to help President Obama put Republicans on the wrong side of the middle class.
Here’s the trend line of Florida since December 1st. Chart after the jump … Read More
Speaking in Florida moments ago, Newt Gingrich pledged to have a permanent US base on the moon by the end of his second term as president.
Speaking for myself, that sounds awesome. But I have to assume Team Romney will grab on to that and mock him like crazy. I don’t care how public/private you make it. The budgetary toll of a project like that would have to be massive. And I don’t think there are any strong near term business models for doing stuff on the moon.
TPM’s Michael Lester distils a day’s worth of reaction to last night’s SOTU into a striking 100 seconds.