Who will be the Republican Nominee For President?

[stjaba]

In the past three weeks, Romney's chances of winning the nomination have gone from 70% to 47% according to Intrade. Meanwhile, Gingrich has gone from less than 10% to 40%. Gingrich is dominating almost every poll besides New Hampshire.  In the latest national poll, Gingrich has a 21 point advantage over Romney.* The next few weeks should be interesting. If Gingrich pulls this off, his comeback would be impressive, but not necessarily groundbreaking. In 2008, McCain came back to win the nomination after polling in the single digits at one point.

*Gingrich 38, Romney 17, Cain 8, Paul 8, Perry 4, Bachmann 4, Santorum 4, Huntsman 3

[Neil]

In this race of no-talents, anything is possible.  When the majority of the candidates are that wretched, and even the headliners are fairly lacklustre, all it takes to win the nomination is the right news story right before the right primary.

[CountDeMoney]

The gaffes just keep coming with this crowd.  I love it.

[Tonitrus]

Yeah, they have their own Social website.

They do (and it's almost identical to Facebook in style), but they use Facebook quite a bit as well, so it is difficult to say that they hate it.

They also dominate Livejournal insofar as blogging goes.

[Neil]

They also dominate spam, and being subhuman.

[Tonitrus]

They also dominate spam, and being subhuman.

But the ladies are so HOTT. 

[MadImmortalMan]

Now I'm hungry for tacos.

[FunkMonk]

President Gringrich. Wow.

[Tonitrus]

President Gringrich. Wow.

That was only ever feasible in 1995.

[Habbaku]

President Gringrich. Wow.

That was only ever feasible in 1995.

Want to make a bet on it? 

[DGuller]

Want to make a bet on it? 

I'm willing to.  My $100 to your $100 that Gingrich won't be elected president in 2012.

[The Minsky Moment]

The sad thing is that Mitt Romney for all his flip-flopping fakery is really a God-fearing guy who honestly seems to have been attacting to politics because of the potential to improve the world he lives in.  (well that and following the family business)

Whereas Newt is an arrogant, self-aggrandizing asshole who believes in nothing other than his own self-promotion, and who switches religions as often as he switches wives.

Yet to many evangelicals Newt is their new savior from Mitt.

The mind boggles.

[Neil]

Fundamentalists make for bad politics and disastrous governments.  Look at the Prohibition Drys.

[garbon]

Want to make a bet on it? 

I'm willing to.  My $100 to your $100 that Gingrich won't be elected president in 2012.

Newt is enough to make me vote for Obama.

[Ideologue]

Yi's gonna owe me like $10,000 in 2024.