{"id":6863,"date":"2012-01-22T00:07:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T08:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6863"},"modified":"2012-01-22T00:07:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T08:07:34","slug":"if-accurate-newt-gingrich-newtered-mitt-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/22\/if-accurate-newt-gingrich-newtered-mitt-romney\/","title":{"rendered":"If Accurate, Newt Gingrich Newtered Mitt Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republicans have met in the state that still flies the Confederate flag and made their choice for their nominee for President.  If we can depend on the results, which I do not think we can, then Newt Gingrich won it in a landslide, trouncing Mitt Romney.  The SC win was especially valuable for Gingrich, because SC is one of the states that are still winner take all<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"22Newt\"Former House speaker Newt Gingrich scored an easy victory Saturday in the South Carolina primary, blowing a hole in former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney\u2019s aura of inevitability.<\/p>\n

The result marked a swift and extraordinary turnaround in Gingrich\u2019s fortunes \u2014 thanks largely to strong performances in two debates, in which he appealed to the state\u2019s strident conservatism and threw Romney off his stride.<\/p>\n

After disappointing distant finishes in the Iowa caucuses<\/a> and the New Hampshire primary<\/a>, Gingrich had limped into South Carolina more than 10 points down in most polls. So battered was his candidacy that Gingrich himself had conceded that his campaign might be over if he failed to turn in a strong performance. <\/p>\n

His victory not only changes the near-term dynamic of this presidential campaign but also defies political history. South Carolina is known as a firewall for the GOP establishment in presidential contests, traditionally extinguishing not fueling the hopes of insurgent candidates such as Gingrich\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Washington Post<\/a>><\/p>\n

Here are the results taken with 99% of the votes counted.<\/font><\/p>\n

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South Carolina<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Goose Stepper<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Votes<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Percent<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Delegates<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Gingrich<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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239,682<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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40%<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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23<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Romney<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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165,354<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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28%<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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0<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Santorum<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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100,968<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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17%<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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0<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Paul<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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77,293<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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13%<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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0<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Total<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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583,297<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And here is the Republican delegate count.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Delegates<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Romney<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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31<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Gingrich<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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26<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Paul<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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10<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Santorum<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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8<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Note that the count includes RNC delegates from party leaders.  The Democrats have Super Delegates that are the same.  These delegates influence the selection of the nominee regardless of voters\u2019 wishes.<\/font><\/p>\n

One thing that concerns me is that we have absolutely no idea whether or not the vote count was accurate.  Given South Carolina\u2019s pattern of unethical behavior, it is certainly possible that the results were determined before any voter entered a voting booth.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"22ess\"\u2026And now we come to the "First-in-the-South" Republican primary in South Carolina, where all evidence of how voters vote disappears entirely as the voters will be forced across the entire state to vote on easily-manipulated, oft-failed, 100% unverifiable touch-screen voting systems made by the nation’s largest voting machine company, ES&S<\/strong>. When the machine-reported results are announced tomorrow night they will either be accurate or not. Either way, there will never be a way for anybody to know one way or the other as there will be nothing to prove how voters voted and nothing to "recount", even if anybody wanted to.<\/p>\n

Appropriately enough, perhaps, Saturday’s primary in the Palmetto State will offer 100% "faith-based" voting<\/strong>, since it will be scientifically impossible to prove that even a single vote for any candidate on the ballot has been recorded accurately by the ES&S iVotronic touch-screens as per any voter’s intent. Known [sic] what we mean, Alvin Greene?…<\/p>\n

The machines that will be in use on Saturday in South Carolina are the very same ones that reported an unknown, unemployed, seemingly-illiterate man named Alvin Greene — who had done no campaigning, had no campaign staff, had no campaign money and no campaign website — had unverifiably defeated Vic Rawl<\/a>, a four-term state legislator and circuit court judge who had campaigned and raised money across the entire state, for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2010.<\/p>\n

They are the same brand and model of machines (some of them, quite literally, the very same physical machines!) that were used in Florida’s contested Congressional District 13 race for the U.S. Congress in 2006<\/a> when they inexplicably lost some 18,000 votes<\/a> in a race ultimately awarded to the Republican candidate Vern Buchanan over Democrat Christine Jennings by just 369 votes\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Truth-Out<\/a>><\/p>\n

Now I\u2019m not claiming that the election was rigged.  I am claiming that there is no way to verify that it is not.  The same party that demands that minority voters be disenfranchised to \u201cprotect the integrity\u201d of the vote has opted to make votes unverifiable.  So much for their integrity lie.<\/font><\/p>\n

So as we head into Florida, Santorum has Iowa, RMoney (thanks Nameless) has New Hampshire, and Gingrich has South Carolina.  May the fight be long, bloody and expensive!  The only remaining goose stepper who does not have a state is Ron Paul, who never mattered and never will.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republicans have met in the state that still flies the Confederate flag and made their choice for their nominee for President.  If we can depend on the results, which I do not think we can, then Newt Gingrich won it in a landslide, trouncing Mitt Romney.  The SC win was especially valuable for Gingrich, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}