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MMC
02-04-2012, 08:48 AM
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Mister D
02-04-2012, 11:00 AM
After a few more defeats Gingrich will hopefully skedaddle.

Elibe
02-04-2012, 11:19 AM
when i first read this i thought it titled the nevada circus lol

that would be a good description

seriously though i agree gingrich is going to lose

Conley
02-04-2012, 11:35 AM
After a few more defeats Gingrich will hopefully skedaddle.

Given his hubris (for example not even bothering to call Romney) I'm worried he will pull a Huckabee.

Mister D
02-04-2012, 12:51 PM
Given his hubris (for example not even bothering to call Romney) I'm worried he will pull a Huckabee.

Yeah, I see your point. They all have egos but some of them stand out which says a lot.

Conley
02-04-2012, 01:01 PM
:laugh: Yeah, it's bad when you're considered egotistical even by POTUS standards.

Mister D
02-04-2012, 01:08 PM
I don't think Huckabee stayed in to soothe his ego though. He is just a strange guy.

Conley
02-04-2012, 01:12 PM
I agree, I never really didn't get a sense of the guy but I didn't think he was arrogant by politician standards. An interesting dude...

Mister D
02-04-2012, 01:15 PM
Too bad his show isn't interesting at all. I still get a kick out of talking about how bad that show is. :grin:


Anyway, Nevada won't be the turning point. It will take another big electoral loss or two for him to give up the ghost.

Conley
02-04-2012, 03:37 PM
Romney won the Nevada Caucus in 2008 so there's no reason to think he won't this time either. With his momentum and Mormon support in the state I don't think this one will be close.

Mister D
02-04-2012, 03:43 PM
Romney won the Nevada Caucus in 2008 so there's no reason to think he won't this time either. With his momentum and Mormon support in the state I don't think this one will be close.

If there exists a substantial Mormon population Gingrich will be crushed.

Conley
02-04-2012, 03:48 PM
From what I read there is. There are a ton of them in the casino industry. They can't drink or gamble but they can make money off it. How does that work? Seems questionable to me.

Conley
02-04-2012, 03:49 PM
And as MMC points out Harry Reid is just one of the prominent Nevada Mormons.

Mister D
02-04-2012, 03:53 PM
From what I read there is. There are a ton of them in the casino industry. They can't drink or gamble but they can make money off it. How does that work? Seems questionable to me.

Seems very questionable at least ethically.

Mister D
02-04-2012, 03:53 PM
And as MMC points out Harry Reid is just one of the prominent Nevada Mormons.

Reid is a Mormon? I did not know this.

Conley
02-04-2012, 04:02 PM
Yep. The Mormons have a huge national network, it is fairly impressive. I'm sure that has helped Romney out immensely. None of the other candidates would have had that sort of backing.

Conley
02-04-2012, 04:05 PM
Seems very questionable at least ethically.

Agreed.


The momentum is clearly with Mr Romney, who is ahead in state polls and won the caucus there easily when he ran for president in 2008. Four years ago, he had the state’s large Mormon population to thank. Mormons represent about 9 per cent of the Nevada population but accounted for 25 per cent of the participants in the Republican caucus. Approximately nine out of 10 Mormon caucus goers in 2008 backed Mr Romney.

But in Nevada, Mr Romney is in comfortable territory. Mormon settlers were among the first people to live in Las Vegas well before gambling was legalised in 1931 and Mormon financiers have developed deep ties with the city’s casino industry. In the 1950s, the Bank of Las Vegas, run at the time by E. Parry Thomas, a prominent Mormon banker who would go on to become a Romney supporter, provided the funds that fuelled the city’s first casino boom.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/913cb430-4e8a-11e1-ada2-00144feabdc0.html

Mister D
02-04-2012, 04:30 PM
It's only a handful of electoral votes but Gingrich can't afford to not contest each and every state.

Mister D
02-04-2012, 04:31 PM
Agreed.


The momentum is clearly with Mr Romney, who is ahead in state polls and won the caucus there easily when he ran for president in 2008. Four years ago, he had the state’s large Mormon population to thank. Mormons represent about 9 per cent of the Nevada population but accounted for 25 per cent of the participants in the Republican caucus. Approximately nine out of 10 Mormon caucus goers in 2008 backed Mr Romney.

But in Nevada, Mr Romney is in comfortable territory. Mormon settlers were among the first people to live in Las Vegas well before gambling was legalised in 1931 and Mormon financiers have developed deep ties with the city’s casino industry. In the 1950s, the Bank of Las Vegas, run at the time by E. Parry Thomas, a prominent Mormon banker who would go on to become a Romney supporter, provided the funds that fuelled the city’s first casino boom.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/913cb430-4e8a-11e1-ada2-00144feabdc0.html

My guess is he'll win "easily" again. I didn't realize they were so big in Nevada but it makes sense.

Conley
02-04-2012, 04:32 PM
Yep, they were there before Nevada ever became synonymous with gambling.

Mister D
02-04-2012, 04:35 PM
That's an entire region he (Romney) can pretty much count on, I suppose. Not the coast but Utah, Nevada, Wyoming etc.