Super Tuesday

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Thump553

Lifer
Jun 2, 2000
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If Santorum lapsed into a coma two weeks ago and was unable to speak he'd be the front runner today. As it is, even the Catholics prefer Romney to him by a wide margin.

He has no one to blame but his own stupid self for collapsing back to being a third tier candidate. Ohio was a repeat of Michigan.

To paraphrase a comment Chris Matthews made last night-Romeny vs. Gingrich and Santorum, that's not the majors, that's little league.
 

TalonStrike

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How can anyone look at the delegate count and try to spin yesterday against Romney? He is well on his way to clinching the nomination.
 

PokerGuy

Lifer
Jul 2, 2005
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Well, at least one positive, that idiot Kucinich is finally gone. The fact that he was even in the US congress is an embarrassment to this nation.

Romney is not nearly as conservative as I'd like, and he did support something similar to that disaster called obamacare, but he's still lightyears ahead of the alternative, so lets go Romney 2012.
 

ky54

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The big loser is Ron Paul. At this point all he's doing is wasting money.
 

PingSpike

Lifer
Feb 25, 2004
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According to local papers since Romney failed to get 50% Ron Paul and Sanatorium will each get 4 delegates from Vermont?
 

Lemon law

Lifer
Nov 6, 2005
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The big loser is Ron Paul. At this point all he's doing is wasting money.
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Not to worry not to worry, Ron Paul is not wasting his own money, he is spending the money delusional Paul Bots sent him on the principle that a fool and his money are soon parted. And since Ron Paul is not running for Congress this year, he will hopefully descend into retirement.

But just like Japanese monster movie remake like Son of Godzilla, there may be the Son of Ron Paul coming to us in the future.
 

soundforbjt

Lifer
Feb 15, 2002
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The idiot son is already in the hearts and minds of Paulbots everywhere. Just when you thought it'd be peaceful, the idiot son gets voted into office in a hick state.
 

Fern

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Sep 30, 2003
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According to local papers since Romney failed to get 50% Ron Paul and Sanatorium will each get 4 delegates from Vermont?

I've heard something like that mentioned before. Seems if no one get's more than 50% then the delegates are proportioned. Get more than 50%, you get them all. Sort of a hybrid proportional/winner-take-all system I guess.

Too many states with their own rules for me to keep up with.

Fern
 

woolfe9999

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Mar 28, 2005
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How can anyone look at the delegate count and try to spin yesterday against Romney? He is well on his way to clinching the nomination.

No way to spin it. He will get the nomination. But there are some qualifiers. First, his support did not improve with the tea party or evangelicals. That suggests a lack of enthusiasm for him in the general election among those constituencies. Second, Santorum is just barely nipping at his heals such that he will have to keep spending lots of money just to be sure. That also will hurt him in the general. As will the continuation of the destructive rhetoric of this primary.
 

JEDI

Lifer
Sep 25, 2001
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so romney won Ohio.

is it a all or nothing state?

or do romney and santorum get the same # of delgates? since santrum lost by 1%
 

JEDI

Lifer
Sep 25, 2001
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oh.. and Dems must be loving this since even grinich also won a state.

this mean the repub bloodletting will go on for a LONG time.
all that future $ that will be spent attacking each other

yup, Dems dancing the happy dance right now
 

nageov3t

Lifer
Feb 18, 2004
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so romney won Ohio.

is it a all or nothing state?

or do romney and santorum get the same # of delgates? since santrum lost by 1%
Ohio is proportional, but Santorum failed to qualify for a bunch of counties even where he won.

even if Romney lost Ohio, he probably would have walked away with more delegates from the state than Santorum.

oh.. and Dems must be loving this since even grinich also won a state.

this mean the repub bloodletting will go on for a LONG time.
all that future $ that will be spent attacking each other

yup, Dems dancing the happy dance right now

and we all remember how the Democratic in-fighting in the 2008 Primaries (which lasted until June) locked McCain into a nice smooth win after Hillary and Obama spent the entire fall, winter, and spring dividing the party.
 

werepossum

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Jul 10, 2006
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I was the very last voter. They tell me turnout was quite light, about 10%. In a heavily Republican state, that can't be good for the Republicans.

I voted for Romney knowing that Santorum would win Tennessee big. I was very tempted to vote for Johnson since he's still on the ballot, but voting for someone who's left the party, even though he's pretty much my ideal candidate. just seemed wrong.