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Super Tuesday Results

Here’s a good place to get Super Tuesday results.  I’ll have comments tomorrow after all of the hubbub is over.

Posted by Owen at 2109 hrs
Politics + Politics - General

1. McCain is your nominee.

   It appears the moderate-liberal wing has enough of the hard right. Ironically had Romney played up his centrism as Governor and his business acumen instead of immediately going after the right wing, he’s probably rolling to the nomination tonight.

   So what do you do? Wander off to the Constitution party?

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 05, 2008 at 2157 hrs
   
   
   

2. Actually, it appears that the conservative vote was split between Romney (fiscal) and Huckabee (social).  If you combine the two, McCain gets creamed.

   Posted by Owen on February 05, 2008 at 2201 hrs
   
   
   

3. And if you compare their delegate count does that get you more than a shiny penny?

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 05, 2008 at 2208 hrs
   
   
   

4. No.  I’m just countering your false point that the Republican base is anything but conservative.  McCain is winning because of a quirk in this election that is splitting the conservative vote.

   Posted by Owen on February 05, 2008 at 2211 hrs
   
   
   

5. I think it’s interesting that Romney and the talking idiots on AM radio were panning Huckabee as being a liberal all those weeks before Iowa, and now the same people want us to believe that the uber-conservative Huckabee is undermining Romney.  The fact is that the handful of firms that have released cross-tabs show pretty uniformly that most Huckabee voters won’t go anywhere near Romney.  More of those Huckabee votes would likely go to McCain.

   There may be no biggest winner tonight, but Mitt Romney is undoubtedly the biggest loser.  Hope he has fun with all those bronze medals.

   Posted by Recess Supervisor on February 05, 2008 at 2220 hrs
   
   
   

6. Tell that to West Virginia.

   Posted by Owen on February 05, 2008 at 2223 hrs
   
   
   

7. The base is conservative but not uniformly conservative on every issue nor does every issue carry equal weight.

   Nor can the conservative base win a national election without moderate conservatives like me, the very people they’ve managed to alienate with wedge politics, sheer incompetence, and profligate spending; which is why they’ll likely spend the next 10-15 years in the minority.

   Tell what to West Virginia?

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 05, 2008 at 2229 hrs
   
   
   

8. The base is conservative but not uniformly conservative on every issue nor does every issue carry equal weight.

   No shit… really?  That’s genius insight.

   Tell what to West Virginia?

   In WV the caucus originally voted Romney with 41%.  On the second ballot, after a call from the McCain campaign, the McCain voters defected to Huckabee because they knew that McCain couldn’t win and that the combined votes of Huckabee and McCain would prevent a Romney victory.  Hard ball politics.  Nothing wrong with it, but don’t pretend that West Virginian GOP voters actually preferred Huckabee.

   Posted by Owen on February 05, 2008 at 2233 hrs
   
   
   

9. The fact is that the evangelicals in the south just will not vote for a Mormon, which led to the good showing from Huckabee tonight. 

   McCain will be just as big an embarrassment as Bob Dole was in 96.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 05, 2008 at 2244 hrs
   
   
   

10. This might be a good thing. Had Huckabee been your nominee, the GOP would be hard pressed to win anything outside the old confederacy.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 05, 2008 at 2250 hrs
    
    
    

11. We had one buffooon from Arkansas.  We certainly don’t need another.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 06, 2008 at 0023 hrs
    
    
    

12. Romney’s getting run in CA.  He’ll pack it in by Friday at the latest.  Nice try, talk radio acolytes.  Guess you have about as much stroke as most of us knew you had all along.

    Posted by Recess Supervisor on February 06, 2008 at 0037 hrs
    
    
    

13. West Virginia was McCain voters going to Huckabee not vice versa.

    I don’t think Huckabee voters go to Romney since his supporters are in a great majority are conservative evangelicals who would be suspicious of Romney because of his Mormonism. Some would go to Romney, but the majority would go to McCain.

    Of course, this doesn’t include me even though I consider myself a conservative evangelical, but I’m only one guy.

    Posted by thoughtful conservative on February 06, 2008 at 0148 hrs
    
    
    

14. Question:  Why doesn’t CO have any delegates pledged to the GOP whereas the Dems have 55?

    Posted by hsgbdmama on February 06, 2008 at 1732 hrs
    
    
    

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