[fieldmarshaldj]

"So, the candidate with 43,920 votes gets out of the way, for the candidate with 1,696 votes?"

Yup. Especially since said candidate will not carry the GOP states necessary to win the general. Massachusetts liberals have a nasty habit of not winning in the South. Just ask Mike Dukakis or John Kerry. We need to get behind the only viable Conservative in this race, Fred Thompson. The only man who can unite all the wings of the party.

[Plutarch]

Especially since said candidate will not carry the GOP states necessary to win the general. Massachusetts liberals have a nasty habit of not winning in the South.

Wow, you're a veritable Michael Barone, fieldmarshal.

The general election is to be decided in the North and midwest. The swing states from 2004: