Romney Leads Gingrich 45% to 31% on Florida Space Coast
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Mass. Governor Mitt Romney is leader former Speaker Newt Gingrich 45% to 31% on Florida's Space Coast despite Gingrich's promise to build a moon colony.
Brevard
County is Florida's tenth most populous county and part of the vital
Central Florida swing counties for both Primary and General Presidential
elections. But Gingrich faces some obstacles on Florida's Space Coast.
The
Mitt Romney and Ron Paul 2012 campaigns were the only ones to reach out
to Florida Republicans just ahead of early voting and absentee ballots
while Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum were still focused on South
Carolina. So many Brevard County voters may have already made up their
mind prior to Gingrich's visit to the Space Coast.
Tea Party Republicans who support a space program still seem divided. While Gingrich gained the endorsement of the leaders
of an organization named 'TEA Party in Space,' a viewer poll on its
website asked, "Whose space policy do you support?" In that poll, 58%
of the 5363 votes were cast for Paul, 27% Gingrich, 9% Obama, 5% Romney,
and 1% Santorum (though the group's leader alleges on its Facebook page
that only four IP addresses voted for Paul in the poll.)
How
will weather affect the Florida Presidential Primary? Statewide,
Florida will have very pleasant weather on Election Day with no rain in
the forecast and highs in the mid-60's in the northern counties and 80's
in the southern counties. In Central Florida, the lows will be in the
mid-50's and highs in the mid-70's.
Nice
Florida weather should help Romney over the other GOP candidates
because more liberal-leaning voters tend vote less when there is
inclement weather on Election Day while conservative-leaning voters tend
to still cast their ballots despite bad weather.
Although
polls close at 7:00 p.m. in Brevard County, election results will not
be released until after 8:00 p.m. E.S.T. because counties in Florida's
panhandle are in a different time zone. Follow Brevard Times on
Facebook or Twitter tonight for up to the minute election results from
Florida's Space Coast and Statewide.
