CNN just had an extrance poll that broke it down by evangelical and not evangelical.
According to their #s, Paul and Romney are duking it out for 1st with Paul having an ever so slight margin. I’m talking tenths of a pct here.
Santorum is solidly in 3rd a few pts behind them. Newt is solidy in 4th a few pts behind Santoru. Then Perry a couple pts behind Newt. Bachmann has faded.
Should be interesting. We’ll be here for a while.
I want to say another word about the benefits of the “pajamas media” and the internet in general. I go way back in politics to the days that computers were nonexistent in all but the most important national campaigns and precinct-by-precinct totals were being recorded in chalk on blackboards by people getting results screamed at them by other people sitting in a rack of rotary-dial phones and taking phone calls from still other people getting the results straight from polling places or the downtown county courthouse. If they didn't get rid of it long ago, my parents have a photo of me as one of those people with different phones in each ear held up by my shoulders while trying to write down election results with one hand — probably the 1976 or 1978 elections, or maybe the 1980 election.
To be able to get live results like this via the internet and have live commentary straight from people walking out of the precincts is fantastic. Never could have remotely dreamed of this thirty years ago.