official Super Tuesday commentary thread (Republican)

[patrick1]

As a McCain/anti-Romney.I really like what I see from the county #'s so far.  I'm waiting for something in ATL metro to come in though.

[patrick1]

There must be an error in Franklin County, Missouri. Huckabee is getting 81% of the votes, 11,000 to 1,500 or something for McCain, with 31% reporting. That has to be an error. Bush got 26,000 votes there in 2004. I think Huckabee has been awarded an extra 10,000 votes. Franklin is an exurban St. Louis County. That is not Huckabee country.

Good call.  Seems odd.

[patrick1]

There must be an error in Franklin County, Missouri. Huckabee is getting 81% of the votes, 11,000 to 1,500 or something for McCain, with 31% reporting. That has to be an error. Bush got 26,000 votes there in 2004. I think Huckabee has been awarded an extra 10,000 votes. Franklin is an exurban St. Louis County. That is not Huckabee country.

Good call.  Seems odd.

they changed it and its big.

[patrick1]

McCain's #'s in CA are looking very good right now.

[patrick1]

McCain now only up by 18 points in CA.

This is over and it should be healthy.  He is winning in every county with results in.

[patrick1]

McCain in his speech was most gracious to Huckabee and to Romney, congratulating both of them.

It makes me believe he wants to heal the rifts in the party, in particular the tough battle he has had with Romney.

Perhaps he is setting the groundwork, should he become the nominee, to asking Romney to be his running mate, which, given the considerable support Romney has received in primaries and caucuses, would be the best way of uniting the party.

Romney does not offer much to the ticket.  He is running poor in the South and the two frankly don;t like each other.   I could see Huck being a VP and despite his more strident Evangelical views I would support that.

[patrick1]

Umm... Mitt Romney would currently get 0 delegates in California

Has someone checked on the Congressional level? CNN saying that McCain won Los Angeles county doesn't count as checking its 15 or so districts.

Yes. there was the link in that post to results by CD. At the moment I checked (20 min ago), McCain was leading in all but two districts - in those two there wasn't any reporting.

I only see Romney winning in CD21

[patrick1]

Karl Rove may be the devil   but he is a very keen politico.  Last night he called a good night for McCain when the raw #'s were that he was down 6%.  He is giving commentary on Fox right now that is straightforward and not being skewed by the morning morons.