Results: AK, GAG, MAR , NDS, OH, OKS, TNS, VTR, VAR
G=Gingrich, R=Romney, S=Santorum, the actual delegate math is horribly confusing. But Romney will bring in a nice haul from ID, VA, and MA. In OH, Santorum somehow managed to totally fuck up his paperwork in several key districts and won’t be getting those delegates no matter who wins them.
(Twitter is blowing up tonite: I’m @SAndrewDKos). Interesting stat: we’re clocking over 100k hits an hour at Daily Kos right now.
Howard Fineman “I wouldn’t call it the GOP anymore, it’s the American Faith Party.”
10:30PM Central: (Update, Santorum takes ND caucus! Romney wins ID caucus) It’s a barn-burner in Ohio with Santorum 417,821 to Romney 423,680 with ~92% in (NBC says they can’t call the race tonite, I think Romney has it and I’m out folks, g’nigh). Extrapolating, there are about 50K votes up for grabs for the two front runners to split at this time. Some remaining counties are notoriously slow to report and may not be in tonite. But the narrative is now set: Romney cannot close the deal even though he outspent Frothy $12 million to one million dollars. [Read more…]
March 6, 2012, a day that will live in infamy. Super Tuesday, so named because a 10 states have their primaries all at once. Once again, Mittens of Romney can purportedly put this thing away and claim head the title of clown in the dwindling GOP clown car. To do that he needs to win Ohio decisively and at least one southern state. Polling wrap up with links here.
Tennessee is one big possibility for the latter. But Mittens has come under fire for the usual Mittens shenanigans of documented lies and brazen flip-flopping: [Read more…]
In other news, the Wingnut Daily retracted reports that Obama was born in Kenya and suncreen sales spiked in Hell. OK, well the header is accurate: [Read more…]
Update: Top notch comments below the post. Keep it going, readers, this is good, usable stuff.
Rush Limbaugh, with an assist by the Sons of Jacob serving in the Senate, laid bare the misogynistic bent of the modern GOP and their unhealthy projection of their own perversions on women the nation over this week: [Read more…]
I understand fully why we went into Afghanistan. We were attacked, the masterminds were in Afghanistan gloating and threatening to kill more people, we had trained to instigate and support an insurgent driven guerilla war for decades using Afghanistan as our primary model, we had a huge standing military that consumes the lion’s share of our budget. We had better be going into Afghanistan after 9-11.
But now bin Laden is dead (What a great time that would have been to leave, huh?) , most of Al Qaeda is gone, the Taliban has been devastated — even if they claw their way back to power in some regions, it will be a long, long time before they forget what happened when they let a crazed religious nutbag come from outside and drag them into a conflict with the US. We Have Won. So why the hell are we still in Afghanistan?
Results: CNN (AZ, MI) | Google (AZ, MI)
Polls closed.
MI Update 9:00 PM CDT: Santorum 36% Romney 40% Paul 11% Gingrich 7% .. w/57% of vote in Romney is up by 20,000 votes. Santorum looks to be heading for a loss, already moving into spin mode saying “We made Romney compete in his home state.”
AZ Update 8:10 PM CDT: Called for Romney
Update 8:25PM CDT: In Michigan, exit polls of those who said religion mattered a “great deal,” voters chose Santorum over Romney by 40 points, about 60 to 20 or so. For those who said the economy mattered most, voters went for the guy who wanted to shutter their state by more than 15 points, about 49 for Romney to Santorum’s 32 or so, via MSNBC. [Read more…]
Mittens was for meddling in other party’s primaries before he was against it
Update: moments ago a Romney spokesman had an incoherent explanation for why Romney wasn’t being hypocritical in that video clip:
That was a totally different situation, that was when Mitt was a private sector businessman, before he started his political career. He was an unenrolled voter, and that meant he could go into either party primary […] He never in any of the races where he was a candidate ever encouraged Democrats to go into a Republican primary and create mischief and that’s what Rick Santorum is doing.
There was a time when the Romney name in Michigan was akin to the Kennedy name in Massachusetts, well received, liked, even across otherwise contentious party lines. But that was before Mittens volunteered a big op-ed saying Detroit should go bankrupt [Read more…]
Rick Santorum has been flogging the idea that college makes you less religious. Sorry, I personally wish it were so, but studies and polls are mixed at best. In fact, by some metrics they show just the opposite: [Read more…]