Huh. Okay, I thought her parents were Americans. Nevermind.
And McCain was born in the "Panama Canal Zone", which technically *is* (or at least was, until Carter handed over the Canal to Panama) American territory. The same way that many American military bases and embassies overseas are technically part of the United States.
And in McCain's case, his parents were also Americans, so he holds birth citizenship by right of blood *and* right of soil.
Anyhoo....to re-rail this a bit, let's look ahead to tomorrow:
SATURDAY! SATURDAY! SATURDAY! It's the the Bungle in the Bayou! The Creole Caucus! The Voodoo Vote! That's right, it's Louisiana Primary Time!
Aaaaaand Santorum's gonna win. Well, that was exciting.
Main questions are: win by how much, and will Gingrich do badly enough to think about dropping out? Since I don't see Gingrich dropping out even if he somehow got negative votes, the latter is more rhetorical then anything.
The bigger news is that Romney has a double-digit lead in polling in Wisconsin. That's a huge flip from Santorum's 16-point lead a month ago. Might be a sign that the "inevitability" narrative is beginning to finally take hold. Of course, that latest poll was before the "Etch-A-Sketch" gaffe, so who knows?
Wisconsin is winner-take-all, so it really becomes a must-win for anyone other than Romney if they want to try and drag this thing out to the convention. If (as the polls suggest now) Romney takes Wisconsin *and* Maryland, then he probably clinches it sometime in early June (say, after winning California).