Romney’s Florida Launchpad
Mitt Romney racked up one heck of an impressive victory in the Florida primary. The latest tally shows Mitt with 46 percent of the vote, followed at quite a distance by Newt Gingrich down at 32 percent. Bringing up the rear was Rick Santorum at 12 percent and then Ron Paul with a miniscule 7 percent.
Closer analysis reveals that Romney lost most of the northern counties in Florida. He lost the votes of those who identify as Evangelicals and did not do well with self-described tea party patriots; however, Romney scored high marks with the very conservative Cuban-American community in South Florida and did much better with women than Gingrich, while exit polling shows him wining majorities of demographics nearly across the board.
The fly in the ointment is now not who will win the GOP nod, but rather how Romney would do against Barack Obama. He does not seem capable of holding the Republican base. Also, in the last week of the Florida campaign he ran 70 percent anti-Gingrich ads but only point-one (0.1) percent pro-Romney ads. I really wonder how that campaign style will work against Obama.
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