[Proud2BeRight]

Romney has to be running scared now. Conservatism wiped him up. Conservatives won 53+% of the raw total and when you throw out the meaningless Paul stink kook vote, conservatism 70+ percent of the real vote.

[eyedigress]

Romney has to be running scared now

The MSM and NWO sure is.

[only1percent]

"Romney has to be running scared now. Conservatism wiped him up. Conservatives won 53+% of the raw total and when you throw out the meaningless Paul stink kook vote, conservatism 70+ percent of the real vote."

.I'm not so sure. The nominating process is still driven by pluralities, not absolute majorities, in two important senses. First, at the level of bound delegates, there are plenty of winner-take-all states(whether statewide or by district) and even the proportional states are still going to award disproportionately more delegates to the plurality winner. Second, many primaries and (especially) caucuses do not elect and bind delegates; instead, they either elect delegates to subsequent county and state conventions, or elect delegates in whole or in part who are pledged but not bound. All these processes will result in delegates going to the national convention who will support whoever has the most pledged delegates, even if it is less than a majority.

"Conservatism" really only has a few more contests to pick a contender and see the rest drop out, or Romney will take it easily. I am less convinced than the average FReeper that Romney can't win pluralities even if it is down to a three-way race (him, Paul, and survivor among Santorum, Perry and Gingrich), but it will definitely stay interesting for quite a while.