[AmericanInTokyo]

[KansasGirl]

I’m voting for Newt in KS today, but expect Rick will win handily. The key is keeping Romney below 20% so he doesn’t get a proportional share of the 25 at large delegates. The other 15 are awarded to the winner in each of the 5 congressional districts.

Huckabee carried KS in 2008 with 60%. Romney got 3%.

[VanDeKoik]

Joy, another caucus. More uncommitted delegates!

Too bad for Rick, a general election doesn’t consists of people bunching up and voting in people’s living rooms.

[throwback]

He's a long shot at this point, but then I guess he always was. I expect he'll win KS without a problem, but I see in AL and MS he's being outspent again by both his opponents. Surprisingly MS appears to be going Romney, and all the talking heads on Fox etc. have slammed the lid. If Romney pulls a win in the south, Gingrich's southern strategy takes a major hit. I thought he'd lay off Gingrich because he needs him to knock down Santorum, but Romney must be confident enough that a grave wound to Gingrich won't reinvigorate Santorum enough to make him dangerous again. Besides Gingrich has vowed to fight on, so he can be raised again if necessary.

[KansasGirl]

Here is the projection I saw.

SANTORUM: 28 delegates ROMNEY: 12 delegates PAUL: 0 delegates GINGRICH: 0 delegates

Read more here: http://midwestdemocracy.com/articles/kansas-gop-caucus-delegates-projection/#storylink=cpy

[dforest]

The trick to winning the general election is that the candidate will have to be able to win in all areas of the country.

Winning the south means little if you are not favored in the north, east, west, and middle America.

Santorum has shown that he can be liked in most regions, except the northeast. Romneyland.

[Utmost Certainty]

Lol. Just got back from the Sedgwick county caucus. They said about 2,000 people showed up.

Romney’s support there was so lousy they didn’t even have a representative available to make a speech for him. So one of the officials there read a boilerplate letter written by Romney boasting about what a great businessman he is and how he saved the Olympics or something.

Newt’s guy (apparently a HS debate coach, hah) made an eloquent and impassioned speech on his behalf. Spoke of how Newt inspired him into conservatism, the menace of socialism that’s storming the country, the historic imperative to defeat Obama, and that Newt is the right man at the right time to do this and advance a vision of liberty. Very substantive on ideas IMO, but unfortunately I wondered if it was ‘too smart’ for people.

Ron Paul’s representative made an alright speech, but there wasn’t much oratory prowess to it. Paul supporters were out in force, and vocal of course.

Karen Santorum showed up, mostly talking about what a good and principled guy her husband is, etc. I wasn’t thrilled by it, since personally I’d rather hear more about the kind of stuff Newt’s guy talked about. But I can see she probably warmed a lot of hearts. I didn’t stop to shake her hand afterwards, but she seemed like a nice person when I walked by.

[Joe 6-pack]

I, Joe 6-pack, hereby officially retract all the less-than-nice things I said about Kansas during my three years at Ft. Riley.

GO RICK!!!