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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
...watching the votes roll in in South Carolina. I was particularly intrigued by the various polls that were presented. Polls of those that call themselves religious conservatives had Gingrich winning by something like 2-to-1 over Romney. Those who were evangelicals? The same result. Women who were religious? The same pattern.
I have a tough time understanding why the religious right has chosen a candidate with the morals of an alley cat over another candidate with impeccable character, morals and family life. They chose a candidate whose best explanation of his serial philandering and obviously fractured morality is, "I didn't do it". (Isn't that about the same defense that was used by Herman Cain?)
And people say that Romney's Mormonism isn't an issue? Give me a break.
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I and others think it was not so much a vote "for" Gingrich as it was a vote "against" the media (CNN and John King in particular) choosing the candidate that will stay and the one(s) that will drop out.
People are outraged at how CNN and King set up that trap as the OPENING of the debate.....featuring ONE candidate and the gossip being spread about him. Not the economy.....not jobs.....not Keystone Pipeline and attempts to develop secure petrol supplies of our own. No, they wanted to talk National Enquirer cover material.
And it backfired. I doubt these voters were that much against Romney. He was leading strongly in the polls before the debate where Gingrich showed what a "street fighter" he can be and that's what is needed to beat Obama's machine.......the machine that defeated the Clinton Machine--prolific.