Democrats for Mitt may have pulled this one out of the fire. Leaked exit polls show a 6-point lead for Romney in Michigan, and the crosstabs of the exit polls released on MSNBC seemed to confirm that (the Republican turnout was very high and the overall turnout very low, and evangelicals made up less of the total electorate than in Iowa). McCain’s people are already trying to lower expectations in the state.
If Romney does win, the race is thrown into even more turmoil. South Carolina would be a three-way toss-up, with Fred Thompson taking a piece of everyone else’s total. Romney probably has a leg up in Nevada because he’s the only one with organization out there, but it’s the same day as South Carolina so it won’t get as much interest from the media. Florida comes next, and it’s Giuliani’s last stand, but the latest polls show as much as a four-way tie. And nobody has the resources at this point to compete in all the February 5 states, which means they’ll all just be crossing their fingers.
Here’s to the clusterfuck!
1 Response to “Romnorama!”
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The Primary season is not in turmoil it is in progress. With so many states moving up their primaries & delegate counts being split in half things are different than ever before. Tell me why is SC more important than Nevada? Nevada has 34 delegates and SC has 24….. are the pundits and writers totally uneducated on the process? At this current point in time Mitt Romney is ahead in delegates. So the horse race continues…
PS..David can you please leave out the less than polite words.
Left by MJN
January 16, 2008 at 1:21am