I started watching the county-by-county results on townhall.com when about 10% of the vote was reported. The split was 41-38 and the spread never moved through the entire result. Very bizarre. Usually you see some swing as different counties report, but last night the spread never varied by a single percentage point. Who programmed the voting machines?
The first figures I saw last night had Santorum in the lead about 40 to 38%. I expected to see that swing to something like 46 to 38%. Larger cities tend to take some time to count, and they generally swing the vote to the more liberal direction later on.
You’re right that there wasn’t a big traditional shift later on. There was a rather small one. I’m not sure what the Michigan vote count swing usually looks like on the nights of elections. This may be what their numbers generally look like. I just don’t know.
Do you live in Michigan? Not trying to undercut your theory. I just wondered if this was typical.
You are right that it was quite steady all evening.