 | Move over Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. You've been hogging
the spotlight for quite some time and now it's shining on Florida. The
GOP candidates will take the stage at the Fox News/Google debate in
Orlando this evening for the second Florida debate in two weeks and the
importance of the Sunshine State is roaring into focus. If the election
remains the two-man race it has been since Texas Gov. Rick Perry entered
last month, Florida could be a tiebreaker and cement either former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney or Perry as the nominee.
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If Perry takes Iowa and South Carolina, states with large
conservative and evangelical bases, while Romney wins New Hampshire, a
state that has become his firewall and where he owns a home, and Nevada,
a state he won in 2008 that has a large Mormon population, then it most
likely will all come down to Florida, analysts say. Adam Goodman, a
Florida GOP political strategist who is currently unaffiliated, calls
Florida the "lynch pin to success" when it comes to becoming the GOP
nominee. But winning Florida in the general election will also be
essential for the GOP nominee and President Obama, she said. "As far as
I'm concerned, all roads to the White House lead to Florida. Some might
argue that road is down the I-4 corridor," Goodman said, referring to
the highway through Central Florida with voter-heavy populations.
"Winning the Republican nomination fight without Florida is nearly
inconceivable. Winning the presidency without Florida is inconceivable.
As important as the first fight is, the ultimate fight will be in the
fall of next year and that will run through Florida." Although Florida's
primary date is uncertain, it's one of the states pushing to be early
in the nomination contests and a likely date is Jan. cheap nfl jerseys
31, which would be right after the early states but before Super
Tuesday. "Whatever the final date is, it will be the first major
primary nomination showdown after South Carolina," Goodman said. "Jan.
31, Feb.1, it doesn't matter. It will be early and follow South
Carolina." It's clear that Perry heads into this evening as the
front-runner in the state. A Quinnipiac University poll shows Perry
leading Romney 28 percent to 22 percent with registered GOP voters, if
former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is included in the survey. Without Palin,
who has yet to announce her 2012 intentions, Perry leads 31 percent to
22 percent. The poll wasn't all bad news for Romney, however. When up
against Obama, Romney bests the president 47 percent to 40 percent,
while Perry up against Obama is a statistical tie. The president earned
his lowest job-approval number rating ever in a Quinnipiac poll in this
survey: 39 percent approve, while 57 percent disapprove. custom jerseys
The important political week in Florida doesn't end with the
debate this evening. The Florida GOP is holding the Presidential 5 or P5
conference this weekend at the same location as the debate. The 3,500
delegates who are attending the conference will vote Saturday in a straw
poll.
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