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[alway]

Romney now up by 7000, with 93% of the total in, or about 85k ballots to count left. At this point it looks like Romney's got it, but only by about 1%, though nearly all remaining counties have been pretty relatively strongly for Romney.

[Mr. Palau]

I hope Santorum wins so much, want this to be as hard as possible for Mitt Romney to win.

[RedKing]

Should be interesting to see if Santorum pulls just above or just below the 20% threshhold in Georgia.  Could lead to Gingrich dropping out if he goes over that.

Honestly, I'm beginning to think the only way Gingrich pulls out is if his campaign bus runs over him. And even then, his bloated corpse might just get up and complain that he was the target of a liberal conspiracy and vow to continue running shuffling awkwardly for President of the United States of America and our tasty braaaaiiiinsss.

[FearfulJesuit]

Rick Santorum: "higher-income people don’t have to pay taxes if they don’t want to."

Also, not that it'll really matter, but Obama won the Oklahoma Primary-with only 57% of the vote.

[nenjin]

And even then, his bloated corpse might just get up and complain that he was the target of a liberal conspiracy and vow to continue running shuffling awkwardly for President of the United States of America and our tasty braaaaiiiinsss.

DWTS.

Just you wait.

[alway]

The BBC reporters just summed it up pretty well: 'He [Gingrich]'s still talking about his winning the nomination. No one else is; but he still is.'

[Sirus]

Kinda off-topic, but whatever happened to NinjaBoot? Did he get muted or banned?

[RedKing]

He's not in the moderation log. I think he was asked to take his spiels to a separate thread. He did, and then that thread appears to have died. So yeah...dunno.

[/quote]

Also, not that it'll really matter, but Obama won the Oklahoma Primary-with only 57% of the vote.

Hah. 18% went to Randall Terry -- a virulent anti-abortion nut who's running as a Democrat for the lulz. Not that it matters. If you ever see Oklahoma turn blue on a general election map, be absolutely terrified because I'm pretty sure that's one of the Signs of the Apocalypse.

[Sirus]

Yeah, I posted in the other thread a few times. The reason I ask here is because that one is dead and this one isn't.
Oh well.

[KaelGotDwarves]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17282260

Romney narrowly takes Ohio.

The drawn-out nomination fight, which has been waged in large part through negative television adverts, has taken a toll on the Republican party, polling suggests.

Oh, really? 

[palsch]

Republicans see long, drawn out and hard fought Democratic primary contest energise the base and establish a powerful ground game that Obama rides to the presidency.

Republicans create a long, drawn out and hard fought Republican primary contest that completely demoralises the base while outsourcing their ground game to PACs dependent on a handful of billionaires.

You could almost say Obama won this election back during the primaries of '08. But I wouldn't because that would be tempting fate.

[RedKing]

Another piece of electoral news that slipped through the cracks last night:

Dennis Kucinich lost his primary battle last night. This wasn't some kind of rejection of progressivism or an insurgency, but rather a result of redistricting which pitted two Democratic incumbents against each other.

EDIT: Oh lawd....and Joe the Plumber won the GOP primary to face off with the Dem who beat Kucinich. Small world.


Not much to report, poll-wise. National tracking poll shows Romney at +10 (this would have been conducted prior to last night). Obama still beating all challengers, even with slightly negative approval ratings.

Next up on the slate: Slightly Super Saturday, with four contests at stake:

Kansas (40 delegates)
Guam (9 delegates)
Northern Marianas (9 delegates)
Virgin Islands (9 delegates)

I think it's safe to say none of the candidates willl be visiting the various islands. Not a lot of poll data out there for Kansas, but my gut says it's inherently going to favor Santorum. Let's remember, this is the same state that tried to ban evolution, make creationism part of the school curriculum, is the home of Westboro Baptist Church, and is just kinda generally "Jesusland" outside of Lawrence and Kansas City. However, it's a caucus, not a primary. Which means all sorts of weirdness could happen.


DOUBLE-EDIT:
Voters Slowly Realizing Santorum Believes Every Deranged Word That Comes Out Of His Mouth

[Criptfeind]

Most likely true as well. I mean, no matter how bad the other two sound, at least you know they are most likely lying. Santorum though is actually crazy.

[GlyphGryph]

Unfortunately, as an onion article, the data therein is false.

People still don't realize he believes what he says. May the gods of the outer ring have mercy on us.

[mainiac]

Most likely true as well. I mean, no matter how bad the other two sound, at least you know they are most likely lying. Santorum though is actually crazy.

How do you tell when Gingrich is lying?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

His lips move.