Are Republican shooting themselves in the foot by letting their primary’s drag on without a nominee set to take on Barack Obama? With their threats to take their campaigns all the way to the Republican Convention in Tampa, are Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich doing their party a disservice by not bowing out of the campaign and handing their delegates over to Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum?
According to a poll by the Pew Research Center, President Obama would defeat either Romney or Santorum in November. (see below)
But I do not believe the effect of having three or four candidates battling all the way to the convention will be negative. Four years ago, Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s campaign’s for the Democratic nominee lasted almost until the convention, and there were no adverse effects on Obama’s campaign against McCain.
Romney supports believe that he will ultimately be the GOP nominee, and that the states he is losing in the primaries will support him against Obama. I agree with the premonition that no matter who the GOP candidate is, they will defeat Obama in deep south states such as Alabama and Mississippi.
Santorum’s self proclaimed ‘Grassroots Campaign’ has been gaining steam, but does he really have a chance against Romney without Gingrich’s and Paul’s delegates? Both Romney and Santorum have been talking about ‘delegate math’ but the numbers favor Romney, and despite his victories in Alabama and Mississippi, Santorum really has a long way to go to win the GOP nominee.
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