Thanks, Russian Harpo.
Aha! 2 smarty pants upvotes for Beinville!
It must be frustrating. If an honest man can’t buy an election fair and square, we might as well replace elections with mud-wrestling!
So the Pubs are trying that out, this year.
Where do you dispose of the contaminated mud?
Once again, someone conjures the image of Newt in a Speedo. Brain bleach!
There, there. Didn’t mean to put that in your head. I mean, who said Newt would be wearing anything at all?
Its for moments like this that I refuse to keep firearms about.
Pfft, hippy.
HAWT
His chance (such as it is) to be a force at all depends on his winning Georgia and other states of the South. IF Santorum had won Michigan then it was quite possible that the Southern GOP base, including in Georgia on Super Tuesday, might have rallied round him as the one not-Romney and dealt him out completely. This more likely keeps him in play.
He doesn’t think he can win anymore, but he’s having a blast.
Image-wise, it’s not bad for Romney. He got a greater share of the vote than he did in 2008. It’s not like his popularity in the state plummeted. His delegate share sucks, though, compared to 2008.
Eh, past GOP primaries have given us Pat Buchannan, Pat Robertson, Alan Keyes, Steve Forbes and David Duke. (actually, just noticed this is the first contested GOP primary not to feature Alan Keyes since 1992!).
I don’t think this primary is so notable for the kookiness of its individual candidates (certainly none of the current field are as execrable as David Duke was), so much as the lack of non-kooks. Past primaries had a choice of electable, relatively sane candidates along with the kooks. This primary really just has Romney, and the longer the Primary drags on, the more the crazy rubs off on him.
Yeah he may have won but he didn’t even come close to beating the spread.
Detroit News seems to think that Santorum won 8 disticts and Romney 6; this would give Santorum 17 delegates to 13 for Romney.
There appears to be a disagreement as to who won District 7; Detroit News says Santorum, but Detroit Free Press (and pretty much everybody else, apparently, including the Michigan Secretary of State’s results site) says Romney.
“Oh, did we say that our rules require that the two statewide delegates be awarded proportionally? Our mistake - we changed it to winner-take-all a month ago, so that gives 16 to Romney and 14 to Santorum, so now everybody has to stop calling it a tie (and make sure Romney gets the ‘momentum points’ going into Super Tuesday).”
Santorum’s campaign is crying foul over the one delegate they’re losing as the result of these changes or whatever they are. I don’t see how they can justify expanding much energy on this issue. They did well in Michigan anyway, and not that I think Santorum has a serious shot at the nomination, but it’s not going to come down to one delegate.
Well, I hope it will – that is, after this year, I hope we will hear no more santorum jokes because we (nationally) will hear no more of Santorum ever again.
If he gets an extra delegate he can plausibly claim to have won the Michigan Primary, at least in the sense of having won the larger share of the delegates. Otherwise its a tie in delegates and a Romney victory in the popular vote.