Pressed on tax returns, Romney calls for Gingrich to release 90s ethics report. And not just Mitt. His surrogates — like fmr. Gov. John Sununu (R-NH) — are pushing the same thing.
We’ve obtained an email sent out recently by Bain & Co to recent recruits on how to deal with questions about power-alum Mitt Romney. The gist is: Mitt is awesome! But as long we’re on the subject we’re Bain & Co, not Bain Capital where all those people got fired. Read it.
Republicans give Romney free advice on how not to blow the race he’s actually pretty much already won.
PPP is out with its final numbers going into tomorrow’s South Carolina primary. It’s 37% Gingrich, 28% Romney, 16% Santorum, 14% Paul. That’s polling of 1540 voters over the last three days. In the calls they made tonight, Newt was up 40% to 26% over Romney. One night, especially a Friday night, is not much to go on. But it’s in line with the trend since Monday which has shown Gingrich rocketing into the lead.
Anything can happen. Polls can be wrong. But polls seldom give us such clear guidance on what to expect. Read More
We’ve just released the latest (and likely final) TPM Poll Average of tomorrow’s South Carolina Republican presidential primary. It’s Gingrich 35.7%, Romney 26.4%, Santorum 13.9%, Paul 12.8%. This is includes the final polling from PPP that came out in the last hour. (Full Trend Chart after the jump.)
To put this in some perspective. On the January 15th, the date of the debate many credit with igniting his current run, Gingrich was at 21.1%. Tonight he’s at 35.7%. A move of almost 15 points in 5 days. Over the same period Romney has dropped around 6 points. Read More
I was just asking our team of reporters what they’d heard today from on the ground in South Carolina. Turnout? Indicators? Whatever. The upshot was, not much. Average or maybe below average turnout. And in truth, these anecdotal indicators from the day of an election are more often wrong than not. But it reminded me of one of the big differences between the 2012 Republican cycle and the 2008 Democratic cycle — one of things people forget when they imagine that a drawn out primary battle automatically energizes a party. Read More
We thought we had the final TPM Poll Average of South Carolina late last night when PPP reported its final results. But ARG just published what will presumably be the final poll. And it has Gingrich up over Romney by 14 points.
That brings the final TPM Poll Average to Gingrich 37.6%, Romney 26.2%, Paul 15% Santorum 13.5%.
Final (presumably final) trend chart after the jump … Read More