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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida's GOP presidential primary will be a winner-take-all contest.
The Republican National Committee has signed off on a plan to award 50 delegates to the GOP presidential contender who comes in first during the Jan. 31 primary.
Florida is losing half of its delegates because it bucked RNC rules by moving the primary date before March 6. But the number of delegates the state will award will be almost as many as the number of delegates expected to be awarded by the states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
The winner-take-all nature of Florida's primary -- along with a decision by Nevada Republicans to push back the date of their caucus to Feb. 4 -- could transform the primary to a make-or-break moment for those seeking the GOP nomination.
This development seriously has the potential to change the race. A win in FL could wipe out any momentum from sweeping the other early states and make this a real race instead of the Mitt Romney 2008 Consolation Prize.
Herman Cain's been performing strongly in the past couple weeks of opinion polling, though he has no real campaign staff or organization. Further confounding things, the glue-like high from the 9-9-9/9-0-9 plan is starting to wear off and in their oxygen-and-GABA-receptor-deprived headaches many conservatives are starting to question the feasibility of Cain's policy proposals. Assuming he was actually running for president and not the 10pm weekday slot on Fox News, could he scramble together a staff and go gonads to the wall in time to stall the Romney juggernaut?
Rick Perry, fresh off his struggles with the hard-hitting journalists at Parade Magazine, is currently beating Michele Bachmann in a race to the bottom of the polls. Still, his campaign is flush with cash, which would allow him to go much farther than other candidates in the expensive media markets in Florida. Also, his unreconstructed good ol' Dixie boy pandering could be a potential plus in the Sunshine State. Likewise he just hired Rudy Giuliani's senior adviser from his 2008 campaign, Joe Allbaugh, also known as the brawn to Karl Rove's brain when working for George W Bush. Guiliani of course famously staked his entire campaign on winning Florida in the '08 primary.
Why did they change it? This is my sentiment, too. (From the same link in the OP)
"We do not appreciate living in a state, that on more than one occasion, has become a laughing stock as it pertains to elections," their email says. "But that is minor compared to the outright subversion of the will of the people. It is one thing to have the Democrats try to steal an election but to have our own party manipulate the system to advantage a particular candidate is unconscionable."
I'm always suspicious when rules are changed close to an event. Why didn't they do this last year?
This development seriously has the potential to change the race. A win in FL could wipe out any momentum from sweeping the other early states and make this a real race instead of the Mitt Romney 2008 Consolation Prize.
Herman Cain's been performing strongly in the past couple weeks of opinion polling, though he has no real campaign staff or organization. Further confounding things, the glue-like high from the 9-9-9/9-0-9 plan is starting to wear off and in their oxygen-and-GABA-receptor-deprived headaches many conservatives are starting to question the feasibility of Cain's policy proposals. Assuming he was actually running for president and not the 10pm weekday slot on Fox News, could he scramble together a staff and go gonads to the wall in time to stall the Romney juggernaut?
Rick Perry, fresh off his struggles with the hard-hitting journalists at Parade Magazine, is currently beating Michele Bachmann in a race to the bottom of the polls. Still, his campaign is flush with cash, which would allow him to go much farther than other candidates in the expensive media markets in Florida. Also, his unreconstructed good ol' Dixie boy pandering could be a potential plus in the Sunshine State. Likewise he just hired Rudy Giuliani's senior adviser from his 2008 campaign, Joe Allbaugh, also known as the brawn to Karl Rove's brain when working for George W Bush. Guiliani of course famously staked his entire campaign on winning Florida in the '08 primary.
Truly an exciting time.
sorry- "good Ole Dixie boy pandering" doesnt work on the coastal cities of Florida. Florida is not a red state, and highest populations are in Dade, Broward and the Gulf Coasts. Ole Dixie aint gonna cut it.
If you're a candidate, and you expect a three way split no matter what you do, there's no incentive to campaign more heavily there.
Florida just assured they will get lots of attention because there are a lot of candidates at stake.
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