Iowa Hiho!

[AiA in Atlanta]

Rick now says he wants to puke on JFK.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Romney aint no Obama. One of these things is not like the others...


Obama Feb 4th 2008


Obama Feb 12th 2008


Obama Feb 25th 2008


Romney Feb 24th 2012

Romney couldn't even fill up the chairs that were placed on the field. He is trying to be one of the masses but just can't pull it off. In the last week he was bragging that he and his family owned only American cars and his wife happened to have two Cadillacs and later he admitted that he has no interest in NASCAR (a redneck sport if there ever was one) but he is going to the Daytona 500 because he has two good friends that own NASCARs.

[Mattus]

12,000 Deroit democrats have indicated they will vote for Rick Santorum in today's republican primary in Michigan. Romney enjoys only a 2% nose in the polls in his "home" state, and this little mischief could very well sway the result. Way to abuse the open primary system!

[Neferti]

[Jovial Monk]

Looks like Romney has the Michigan primary won.

36% counted: Romney 41%, 38%. Approx. 14,000 vote gap.

[Jovial Monk]

Romney rolls on to Super Tuesday
By John Barron
Posted February 29, 2012 15:14:38

PHOTO: Mitt Romney greets musician Kid Rock during a campaign rally at Royal Oak, Michigan (AFP: Justin Sullivan)
For all of the concern about the lack of enthusiasm for Mitt Romney’s Presidential campaign, the fact is he is winning states and delegates.

Romney was expected to win all of Arizona’s 29 delegates today, and he did.

Romney was trailing in recent weeks in his “home state” of Michigan (where he last lived when his dad was governor and LBJ was President) and yet he won there as well.

Not by much, but a win is a win.

After two months of ups and downs, Mitt Romney now has a significant lead in delegates, and while ever the conservative vote is being split between Santorum, Gingrich and Paul, he is the likely nominee.

It’s classic divide-and-conquer – but it’s more than that too.

Exit polls in Michigan and Arizona confirm that “electability and experience” rather than any other issue are the top concerns among Republican voters.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-29/r ... ay/3860274

[Mattus]

Yikes, a 3 point margin in your home state is cutting it a bit fine. Still, a win is a win, leaving Mitt with enough clear air between him and Santorum in the total delegate count to look strong.

Still, Mitt has spent $55,042,207 getting there, he has spent more in the last week than he has left in the coffers (poor guy's down to his last $7M!). This is clearly unsustainable, even for Moneybags himself. In happier news, the results of Mitt's focus groups are back and "More jobs, less debt and a smaller government" seems to be polling really well. Therefore expect him to repeat it ad nausuem for the next week. Actually it's a surprisingly concise and clear from the blathering old fool, lets see if he can pull it off. There's a rambling smell of John Kerry about the way he speaks in public.

Meanwhile Santorum has spent only a modest $5,215,744. He definitely gets more bang for the buck, but with only $1.5M left in the tank ahead of super tuesday, can he hold out against another broadside of Mitt's spending?


As we look ahead, super Tuesday is just a week away, and Romney can expect to win Vermont, Massachusetts and Virginia without breaking a sweat, while he will be having to spend Rick out of the race in Tennessee, Oklahoma and Ohio. Especially Ohio. In fact it's all about Ohio from here on in. Ohio Hiho!

Newt Gingrich's one glimmer of hope is his (adopted) home state of Georgia, who for some reason have grown accustomed to his fetid stench. I expect him to drop out and endorse Rick Santorum at the day's end.

That leaves Alaska, North Dakota and Idaho. These states don't matter, because no one actually lives in them, and those that do are stark raving mad. They'd be like the Northern Territory and Tasmania elections. If I were a betting man, I'd drop a dime on Ron Paul sweeping the whole lot of them. Crazy as a bag of spiders.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Romney's comments just get more and more embarrassing and "conservative" chatter is all about some mystery GOP hero joining the race any day now (much like "liberals" hope that Hillary will be Obama's running mate). I'd like Romney a lot better if he just be the moderate he really is in a party that has swung dangerously to the right (factoid: an extremely conservative 1970's Republican would at best be a much vilified moderate today, much like Olympia Snowe who just announced she is leaving the US Senate because it has become far too contentious and polarized).

[Mattus]

It's one day out from super Tuesday and Santorum holds razor thin leads in Ohio and and Tennessee, both of which he had 20 point leads in February. Romney has a lot of momentum going into the big T, but I'd be surprised if it's enough to take these "severely" conservative states.

A lot rides on Ohio, no one gets to the White house without it.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Gingrich is gaining strength here in Georgia. Santorum is pressing him to drop out but Gingrich is having none of it.