The best thing I can say about the Nevada Caucuses is that I slept through them. Romney outspent his opponents, as always, and sailed to an easy victory. Gingrich was a distant second. Santorum was fourth, but it appears that he is now trying to froth his way into a VP spot. No other Republican candidate is worthy of mention.
Mitt Romney handily won the Nevada caucuses on Saturday, solidifying his status as the front-runner and increasing his momentum as he seeks to use the month of February to ease doubts within the Republican Party about his candidacy and begin confronting President Obama.
Mr. Romney ran well ahead of his three opponents on a night that delivered his second decisive first-place finish in four days, following his victory in the Florida primary on Tuesday.
Mr. Romney appeared elated as he took the stage at his election headquarters at the Red Rock casino hotel here, kissing his wife, Ann, who reminded the crowd that Nevada would be important in a general election, and hugging his sons before delivering a speech geared toward the fall…
Inserted from <NY Times>
Here are the latest stats with 43% reporting.
Nevada
Goose Stepper
Votes
Percent
Delegates
Romney
7,884
43%
10
Gingrich
4,623
25%
3
Paul
3,460
19%
3
Santorum
2,246
12%
2
Total
18,213
And here is the current delegate count.
Delegates
Romney
95
Gingrich
30
Paul
13
Santorum
10
On Tuesday, Missouri has a primary. Colorado and Minnesota have caucuses.
16 Responses to “Romney Buys Nevada”
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Hey whoopee! surprise surprise – I just hope that the country’s economy remains on an upswing – but am still holding hope for a 3rd party to let itself be known! Sorry TC the SOTU really clinched the deal for me to be totally anti-O – he’ll have to address his “fracking” policy before he gets a nod from me – I’m not going to vote for him – who knows Romney is so chameleon, if we make a big enough stink against fracking maybe Romney will take a stand against it – sorry to be a one issue voter – but when it comes to corporate control – O’s every bit as bad – I’m just glad he changed bed partners to abandon the banks and let them face the music – now if he were to do that to oil and gas —–
I totally agree. How about Rosanne Barr who says she is looking to the Green Party (?)? The problem is that too many of us taking that position could throw the Presidency to the Repugnants. A disaster, the worst possible outcome. In fact, that was why I voted for Obama in his election, much to my distaste. He has proven to be just about what I expected unfortunately. When will the day come when we can vote for someone rather than against a worse choice?
Welcome Dana. 🙂
One of two people will be President in 2013, Obama or a Republican. Nobody else has a chance. Those on the left who vote third party are effectively voting for the Republican, albeit unintentionally.
Lee, if you think that Obama is as bad as the Republicans, you are the most religious person I know.
Roseanne is running for 3rd party and she will fit just great in the three ring cirus.
Love the cartoon TC have a great day
Circus is right, but anyone who votes for her needs a trip to the booby hatch!
Thanks!
Very well said, Nameless. I would stand corrected had I nor been speaking figuratively. 😉
Yep agree with you TC—roughly 20,000 votes cast ./ Humm out of a population of how many ? A pool of Republican voters , of how many ? Methinks the media reps were most excited about this farce –
Phyllis that is the way caucuses are. Only the ultra highly motivated attend, and among Republicans, that’s the extremists and Paul acolytes. They are not truly representative of Republicans let alone the state.
Silly geese! It appears none of them can excite their party into going into the voting booths.
Could you get excited over any of them?
So Romney bought Nevada. So what’s new? The hard part is keeping up with his positions on every issue. At one time he was in favor of health system similar to that has been created under Obama. But. that was when he was governer of Massachusetts. Now his is opposed. He claims that he is not concerned with the poor and the very rich. Yet, he supports cuts in programs of the poor and he supports reduced taxes for the very rich. That sounds like he is very concerned with both. In fact, those seem to be the central parts of his programs. Or am I behind his latest position on these? Those positions may be out of date. This week his positions may have changed. The real threat to this country and to the election is unbelieveable ignorance of a very large portion of voters in this country. How many of such voters have even the slightest notion of what he stands for, or even who represents them in Congress, what is their party affiliation, their positions on issues, or whatever? That is why the massive influx of money from corporation “people” is so important. Those ignorant voters vote for whoever’s name they hear about most often without the slightest hint that they are voting for someone who supports programs that pull the rug out from their whole future.
Dana, I completely agree about the danger of ignorance. Forecasting Romney’s positions is easier. He stands firmly and irrevocably on both sides of every issue.
From The New York Times — “The state has the largest share of voters who call themselves strong Tea Party supporters of any of the states that have participated in the Republican nominating contest so far. These voters are considered a vital part of Mr. Gingrich’s coalition, yet Mr. Romney won a higher percentage of them than did Mr. Gingrich, according to the entrance poll.”
Is it fair to say that perhaps monogamous Rmoney is closer in values to the Tea Party than Poligamist Gingrich? Oh hum.
From The New York Times — “But Nevada’s results may say little about the political terrain nationally, since far fewer caucusgoers appeared to have turned out than the number of Republicans who did so at the Iowa caucuses last month. “
It seems that there have been comments at all the primaries so far that the number of people voting has been less in varying degrees. I wonder why? Are the Republican/Teabaggers getting complacent about the election? Or perhaps some are feeling disaffected because of the financial crisis and the fallout from that? Or are they disturbed about the union busting initiatives? Or is it that they are saving themselves for the main election in November? It would be interested to know.
Whether or not Rmoney bought Nevada, who knows. But to say the least, anyone who supports the Republican/Teabaggers needs their head read!
Monogamist Rmoney and polygamist Newter! LMAO!! 😀
The low turnout is because of the low quality of the choices.