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Posted on 01/15/2008 9:52:13 AM PST by Reaganesque
Snow all over Michigan.. reports of low turnout. Romney should win tonight fairly easily.
I think its worth noting that if McCain gets another 17% of the crossover votes as he did in 2000 in Michigan, or more, he’s demonstrated he can’t win a national election as the GOP nominee.
The question is . . . what is the turnout in Democrat areas. Low turnout everywhere” is not meaningful. Low turnout in Dem areas, high turnout in GOP areas in meaningful.
All Thompson supporters in Michigan need to go out and vote for Romney.
McCain needs to be dealt a defeat today in order to deflate him in South Carolina.
Fred will be the beneficiary if he does.
If absentee votes are going 3 to 1 for Romney then it stands to reason that low voter turnout everywhere still helps Romney.
I think thats probably true as well, we’ll know tonight for sure.
Either way, the simple truth is less than half of any ‘crossovers’ he picks up will be voting for him over a Democrat in the November general election.
I get the feeling McCain would prefer a Democrat if he isn’t the GOP candidate, just as I suspected he thought after the 2000 primaries.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/11/132847/518
Markos is urging dem crossovers to vote Romney.
With the support of the Democrats, he’s sure to win.
The MSM network radio news (carrying Rush here) is shilling for McCain. They are reporting on interviews with both RAT party voters crossing over Mccain as well as reported unethusiatic republicans who are also voting for him. I suspect they would love to suppress the Romney vote with such reports if possible.
Since this will likely be a ping-heavy day or two, I'll be giving the logo a temporary rest.
In NH they had candidates to vote for.
In Michigan they really do not.
In NH all of their votes counted. Now the DNC says that, in Michigan, they do not.
I believe that there will be a pretty low turnout on the dem/independent side compared to the Republican turnout.
I cannot imagine how McCain could have endeared himself to those voters.
Romney being knocked out in MI is the best thing for Fred because Romney’s votes will go to Fred in SC.
McCain will crash on his own after MI.
As long as Mitt and Huck lose in MI its a great day for FRed!
Yes, Fredheads and Romney supporters need to team up. I'd be all for a Romney/Thompson ticket. My second choice would be a Thompson/Romney ticket, but the first is much more likely.
We need to take down the Huckster and McInsane!
I went to the article and man, if tomorrow, the “f-word” mysteriously vanished from the English language, vast swathes of the Liberal establishment’s punditry/bloggers would be utterly incapable of expressing an opinion or even forming a proper sentence.
How are the delegates apportioned here?
Is it an all or nothing state?
Is that a threat?...LOL
The Romney camp has given Thompson peeps no reason whatsoever to want to lift a finger to help him.
Now the JC Watts rumor comes out of the same channel as the last dirty trick with it’s implied pandering for votes message. Oddly enough, pandering for votes is exactly what Mitten Luther has been accused of...
This is exactly like the Bush campaign (Mitt has the same guy) floating out there that McCain had fathered a black child.
Here’s hoping for a quick and fatal demise to the Romney candidacy.
There needs to be one and I can’t do it on stupid dial-up..lol.
Here’s an interesting on-the-scene turnout report by the Detroit Free Press. Words like “nearly deserted” are being used to describe some precincts.
http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080115/NEWS15/80115029
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