What’s the deal?
January 29th, 2008 Posted in Election Night, Florida
According to the state website…
Right this second, I JUST refreshed it…it’s Romney 34.2, McCain 33.2.
But Fox, MSNBC, and CNN are reporting 34 McCain, 32 Romney…
What gives…? How can this be, when I’m watching the OFFICIAL STATE ELECTIONS WEBSITE.
This is so stupid…
January 29th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I’ve noticed that as well. I watch the official state site.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
The official site is showing about 100,000 less votes than CNN - maybe they are behind? This is crazy.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Your looking at earlier returns. The state website is reporting 303 thousand for Romney, but the vote totals are well near 360,000 for Romney right now and it is 35 to 32 for McCain. Get away from the state results. Go to CNN and get more up to date data…
January 29th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
I just clicked on the state website 9:15est and Romney = 33.8 and McCain = 33.5. Whoah!
January 29th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Just caught Brian Williams call the race for McCain. I love how the media immediately annoints him the frontrunner. When Romney has led in delegates all along, no frontrunner. The moment McCain eeks past, frontrunner! (barely, and not much further ahead in the popular vote.)
I hate to say it, but the Indies strike again. Our party has been hijacked by a pretender. What do we stand for, people? We’ve got to do more than we have to GOTV next Tuesday.
I wonder out loud about the systematic way that independents were allowed to cast votes in some precincts. Is Florida for real or what? And the winner take all gambit makes sense when there is a clear winner, but when it is a close race, it makes no sense at all (Thanks team Rudy for ensuring that Florida and several other big liberal states fall to McCain with winner take all). I guess we should talk to our new good friend Al Gore about how it feels to come up short on that score (since we are essentially in the same party now).
Now, lest we hang our heads and give up the fight, remember that Romney was a distant third just a month ago in Florida. McCain’s rise was enabled by the independents in NH and the adoring liberal media. In spite of that, Romney rose from the low teens to a strong second place finish, breezing past Rudy. All the Florida screwiness aside (do they even watch the debates down there?), as the other hangers on begin to drop out, their supporters have to take a hard look at how we want to define ourselves as Republicans. Do we want a waffler that came within an inch of declaring himself a Democrat and running on a democratic ticket but instead decided to disguise himself as a republican and simply work and vote with the other side? Or do we want someone who stands up and fights WITH Republicans in enemy territory for true conservative principles.
The great Republican coalition is on the precipace, folks. It’s crunch time. We are fighting for the identity of our party, and we are losing. Should we lose this fight, we’ll lose more than the White House. We’ll lose the ability to even define what we stand for, and fall into political irrelevance for many, MANY years to come.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
I agree Frozone, “the constitution hangs by a thread.” The problem is those repubs are getting into “the resistance is futile phase” the sen and gov, etc, are going to start falling in place behind McCain. Guliani will endorse tomorrow. McCain has no money, but he has Huckabee drawing votes from Mitt, The next state(not sure whatz0 our guy has got to win! He needs victories before super tuesday, to have a chance. Perception is everything to the public. I just do not see howw saying the economy is your #1 concern, and you vote for McCain? I am not going to say conspiracy, but it does make you wonder….. I am a little disheatened, but I will be contributing tommorrow!
January 30th, 2008 at 12:26 am
I think its time we face reality a little: With the exception of Michigan McCain has won all the crucial states, and now has the lead in delegates. For Romney supporters to deny that McCain is the frontrunner at this point comes across as naive, and is a disservice to their own cause. False optimism and arguing it are a waste of energy and send the wrong signal to crucial undecided voters in other states.
January 30th, 2008 at 12:42 am
Huckabee supports are killing the true conservative voice from being heard. Everytime they vote for the huckster, they are pulling away votes that would give Mitt a landslide. How do we get these evangelicals to wake up!
January 30th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Remind Romney that one time people were sure the world was flat, and the sun revolved around the earth. Intelligent people sometimes change their opinion, based on new information.
Most of the major problems the USA has now are at least partially the result of having a leader who absolutely refuses to change his opinion about anythinh. There’s a big difference bettween being analytical and being a jackass ( stubborn as a mule).
He’s being seriously hurt by Mc Cain’s telemessages using contradictory sound bite quotation of Romney remarks. Those messages are very effective because they don’t mention any reason or justifications for his change of policy. Mitt needs to take that situation head on and justify his willingness to update his opinions, instead of sutting out and ignoring any new considerations, such as Bush and Mc Cain do. Leadrers need to stay tuned in to developments and adjust policies accordingly.
Please get this suggestion to Mitt. Mc Cain is killing him with that flip flopper strategy. This is an emergency, for the debate tonight