The Competent Conservative

Just Monday, an Insider advantage poll showed poll showed Gingrich leading by 9% after coming off a win in South Carolina.  Here are the results from Monday’s poll, Click on image to enlarge: The new poll out today (Wednesday 1/25) shows that Mitt Romney has regained the lead by 8%: Among Men Mitt Romney 35.5% [...]

CNN/TIME/ORC Florida Primary Survey Romney – 36% (43) Gingrich – 34% (18) Santorum – 11% (19) Paul – 9% (9) Undecided – 7% (6) Survey of 369 likely primary voters was conducted Jan 22-24 and has a margin of error of +/-5%. Numbers from the poll conducted 1/13 – 1/17 are in parentheses. Inside the [...]

Yesterday Marco Rubio issued a rebuke to Newt Gingrich for claiming that Mitt Romney is just like Charlie Crist, an obvious attempt to manipulate the minds for Floridians who chose Rubio instead.  Now today Rubio has ripped Gingrich for an extremely dishonest Latino ad stating that Romney is “Anti-Immigration”.  Here are the details below: Sen. [...]

Governor Mitt Romney scores another Florida newspaper endorsement, this time from the Orlando Sentinel: After three contests with three different winners, Florida’s GOP voters have the chance in Tuesday’s presidential primary to break the tie and turbocharge one candidate’s pursuit of the nomination. The candidate who deserves that boost is former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. [...]

Newt Gingrich’s decision to attack Mitt Romney as being in the mold of Charlie Crist (while comparing himself to Marco Rubio) during his campaign stops in Florida today has raised the ire of a key figure in Florida politics: none other than Marco Rubio himself. Rubio had a little to say about Gingrich’s attacks: Newt [...]

Dead heat.  This poll confirms the prior polls out today that shows Romney rising back up. Florida Chamber of Commerce / Cherry Communications Florida 2012 Republican Primary Survey Romney – 33.13% Gingrich – 32.95% Santorum – 10.32% Paul – 6.15% Undecided – 12.90% Favorability Ratings: Romney – 65/22 Gingrich – 60/27 Survey of 504 registered [...]

Romney rebounding in Florida? (Update: New Poll out Today -1/25/2012- has Romney at 41%) We Ask America Florida Primary Survey Mitt Romney – 34% Newt Gingrich – 32% Rick Santorum – 9% Ron Paul – 8% Undecided – 17% Survey of 946 likely primary voters was conducted Jan 23 (and completed “just minutes before” the [...]

  Gingrich contract with Freddie Mac leaves questions unanswered The consulting firm founded by Newt Gingrich on Monday night released a copy of its 2006 contract with Freddie Mac showing it was paid $300,000 to provide unspecified “consulting and related services” for one of the federally sponsored housing agency’s top lobbyists. The contract between the [...]

“Speaker Gingrich has also been a leader,” the former Massachusetts governor said. “He was a leader for four years as speaker of the House. And at the end of four years, it was proven that he was a failed leader and he had to resign in disgrace. I don’t know whether you knew that, he [...]