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April 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
With 14 per cent of precincts counted in Washington, Romney had 68 per cent of
the vote to 15 per cent for Paul and 12 per cent for Gingrich. Santorum was
not on the ballot.
Romney and Obama exchanged barbs Tuesday in further acknowledgement that both
camps think the fall campaign for the general election has already begun.
Romney, who has cemented his lead over Santorum through overwhelming spending
on television advertising, will face a better organised, better financed
Obama campaign backed by the power of the presidency.
“He gets full credit or blame for what’s happened in this economy, and
what’s happened to gasoline prices under his watch, and what’s happened to
our schools, and what’s happened to our military forces,” Romney told
supporters gathered at a sandwich shop in Waukesha, Wisconsin. “All
these things are his responsibility while he’s president.”
Obama said things could be worse – and predicted they would be if Romney and
Republicans got their way. He criticised Romney for supporting the budget
plan introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the influential chairman of
the House Budget Committee.
In a speech to the annual meeting of The Associated Press, Obama said the
House-passed budget supported by Republicans was “antithetical to our
entire history as a land of opportunity and upward mobility for everybody
who’s willing to work for it … It is a prescription for decline.”
Obama’s re-election campaign is running a new TV ad in six swing states
criticising the former Romney by name for the first time – in this case as a
backer of “Big Oil.” Rising gasoline prices are shaping up to be a
major campaign issue and the Republicans are trying to blame that on Obama.
Romney responded Tuesday by accusing the president of trying to shift blame
for the bad economy.
“The president put an ad out yesterday, talking about gasoline prices
and how high they are. And guess who he blamed? Me!” Romney said after
handing out ham, turkey and Italian sandwiches to supporters. “Maybe
after I’m President I can take responsibility for things I might have done
wrong. But this president doesn’t want to take responsibility for his
mistakes.”
For Romney, the end of the contested primary campaign could hardly come soon
enough. Obama has gained in the polls in recent months, particularly among
women, as Republicans vie among themselves for support from the party’s
increasingly conservative base. Santorum has devoted more time to social
issues – including birth control – than Romney, who has generally stayed
focused on economic issues.
Additionally, surveys indicate Americans are growing more optimistic about the
overall state of the economy. Unemployment has fallen in recent months, but
it is still at a relatively high 8.3 per cent of the work force.
Romney made one campaign stop before an election night party in Milwaukee. He
spent the weekend campaigning across Wisconsin, accompanied by Ryan and
working to win yet another big industrial state that Santorum was counting
on to keep his flagging candidacy alive.
There were 95 Republican National Convention delegates at stake for the day,
including 42 in Wisconsin, the only one of the three contests that a fading
Santorum seriously contested.
Romney won at least 44 delegates in Maryland and Washington.
That gave him 616 of the 1,144 needed to clinch the nomination and on a pace
to do so before the end of the primary season in June. Santorum had 272
delegates, Gingrich 135 and Paul 51.
Interviews with voters leaving Republican polling places in Maryland and
Wisconsin showed an electorate more concerned with a candidate’s ability to
defeat Obama than with the strength of his conservatism, his moral character
or his stand on the issues. Similar soundings in earlier states have
consistently worked to Romney’s advantage.
Voters in both states were less apt to be born again or evangelical Christians
than in most previous contests – 34 per cent in Wisconsin and 32 per cent in
Maryland. Based on earlier contests, that, too, suggested an advantage for
Romney. Santorum, a staunch social conservative, has done well with
evangelical Christians because of his strong opposition to abortion and gay
rights.
Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, made little or no effort in Maryland,
was not on the ballot in Washington, D.C., and concentrated much of his time
in Wisconsin in rural areas.
Santorum was spending the day in Texas at private fund-raisers for his
campaign before heading to his home state of Pennsylvania for an election
night party near Pittsburgh.
Wisconsin was the fourth industrial state to vote in a little more than a
month after Michigan, Ohio and Illinois, a string that Romney has exploited
to gain momentum as well as a growing delegate lead in the campaign for the
Republican nomination.
The former Massachusetts governor won a close Michigan primary on Feb. 28,
then an even closer one in Ohio a week later, followed by a convincing
victory in Illinois on March 20. At each turn, he was backed by his own
robust, well-financed organisation as well as a deep-pocketed super
political action committee that assured him of an overwhelming advantage in
television advertising.
Romney and his allies have spent $53 million on television advertising so far
this election cycle compared to $27 million from his three Republican
competitors combined, according to data compiled by the media tracking firm
SMG Delta.
“With almost unlimited resources, Gov. Romney has not proven to be very
effective,” Santorum said as he predicted a possible upset in
Wisconsin. “The only way he’s been successful in winning the primaries
is by just bludgeoning his opponents by an overwhelming money advantage –
something he’s not going to have in the general election.”
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