Romney confidently eyeing Fla. primary's big prize
TAMPA, Fla. Mitt Romney oozed confidence and a defiant Newt Gingrich seemed to acknowledge his momentum had been checked, at least for now, as Florida Republicans voted Tuesday to decide who gets the state's 50 delegates, the biggest prize yet in the Republican presidential nomination contest.
Romney is heavily favored in the winner-take-all primary, the final and possibly pivotal contest in a high-stakes month in which the former Massachusetts governor has claimed one win and two second-place finishes so far. On Monday, he campaigned so optimistically that he broke into song.
Without predicting a winner or endorsing a candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., told CNN on Tuesday: "The winner of Florida is in all likelihood going to be the nominee of our party."
But Gingrich would have none of that talk. Outside a polling place in Orlando Tuesday, he told reporters the race wouldn't be decided until June or July "unless Romney drops out earlier."
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/romney-confidently-eyeing-fla-1324441.html
warrior1
(12,325 posts)problem. If one RNC objects then the total, winner take all, will be decided in August. Romney still may only get a portion of them.
rocktivity
(44,555 posts)Be still, my heart!
That's all the more reason to root for a single-digit margin of victory -- Go Newtie, go, go!
rocktivity
GOTV
(3,759 posts)He's the one that stopped going after Romney and the Media so fiercely. He became a fluffy bunny in Fla.
I'm disappointed too. I was so looking forward to the GOP histrionics if Newt won another one.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Thanks for the Pics....
frogmarch
(12,145 posts)get Shame Us off the roof."
siligut
(12,272 posts)So he put it on the poor dog.