[Dog Gone]

Rudy is the one clapping the hardest tonight. He’s been aiming for a Florida and Super Duper Tuesday contest with no clear frontrunner in the states he didn’t spend much money on.

He’s being doing the rope-a-dope, but saving his strength and money for the states that actually send large numbers of delegates.

It was a high-risk strategy, and it might not pay off. He’s lost half of his national support from this past summer.

On the other hand, we’ve seen this thing turn on a dime.

Fasten your seatbelts.

[SamAdams76]

Rudy is the one clapping the hardest tonight. He’s been aiming for a Florida and Super Duper Tuesday contest with no clear frontrunner in the states he didn’t spend much money on.

Well it's a stupid strategy. It would be like the New England Patriots going 0-6 to start the season so they could save their best for the Dallas Cowboys and Indianapolis Colts games. They might have beaten those two teams but they wouldn't have made the playoffs.

[The Pack Knight]

I think you're right. The early state strategy is all about "The Big Mo'", but, so far, no man has won two states in a row. That bodes well for those who focused on later states, meaning Rudy and, to a lesser extent, Fred. It certainly does not help those who've spent their wad in Iowa and New Hampshire.

I think you're going to see a lot more of Fred if he wins South Carolina, and a whole lot more of Rudy in the runup to Florida regardless. That could put a whole lot of play into some already fluid national numbers going into Super Tuesday.

I don't think we'll really know anything about where this race is going until February 6th.