Santorum Concedes: He Can't Win The Nomination Outright
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Source: BuzzFeed
In a strategy memo pushing back on Mitt Romney's narrative that it will take an "act of God" to deny him the nomination, advisor John Yob argued that they have a strategy to win at a contested convention.
Majority Needed for Romney, Not for Santorum
Mitt Romney must have a majority on the first ballot in order to win the nomination because he will perform worse on subsequent ballots as grassroots conservative delegates decide to back the more conservative candidate. Subsequently, Santorum only needs to be relatively close on the initial ballot in order to win on a later ballot as Romneys support erodes.
The memo, to be distributed today, indicates that the Santorum campaign seems more concerned with arguing that Romney will not win a majority of delegates to the Republican National Convention, rather than making the case for why he will. Indeed, the over-2,000-word memo only addresses the possibility of Santorum reaching a majority in its final paragraph, and only as a throw-away.
Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/santorum-concedes-he-cant-win-the-nomination-out
So, if I'm following the logic, the argument for Santorum is that, assuming Mittens doesn't have majority support at the Convention, the delegates will resolve their dilemma by choosing someone who has even less support, and would be a weaker candidate in the General Election.
Works for me...
lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Santorum formally embraces negative campaigning as the anti-mormon candidate.
My advice to Santorum is forget the grits and consume a LOT more Orange Nehi with the Moon pies.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)You'd be useing it around 10PM EDT on election night if he were to get the nomination.
PEACE!
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)It also forces Rmoney to spend more and more just to get to the convention.
msongs
(67,453 posts)MaineDem
(18,161 posts)brooklynite
(94,745 posts)MaineDem
(18,161 posts)Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)Politics makes strange bedfellows, at times...
liberal N proud
(60,346 posts)Keep these clowns showing their true selves.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)He sounded awfully confident. This could get interesting.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Worse, it is by some elderly sounding woman with a high nasal screech voice PLUS a very deep country southern accent, who is mostly unintelligible.
Someone should clue her to the fact Santorum can't win.
Our primary is tomorrow and the robo calls have been coming in thick and fast.
ALL for Republicans.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)They should be banned.. imo.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)Why isn't god doing anything to help?