[DoughtyOne]

You folks can comfort yourselves with these sorts of things as long as you want to. The hard reality is that Rick has entered more contests, and has won more of them.

For your hard delegate idea to work, Newt has to start winning big. He isn’t even projected to start winning little.

If you think it is reasoned to give a guy credit for not entering races, then give him big mounds of praise because he won his old home state, then run with it all you like.

Except for Newt’s die-hard supporters, nobody is giving Newt props for his big one out of ten state win yesterday.

He cannot win this. He’s not winning states. Other people are.

I appreciate what you are trying to say, but I don’t believe in casting a lot of people’s choices to the wind. These contests are all a part of the selection process, and they should be honored as such.

If Newt wins the nomination, you two can come back and remind me you told me so. As of now, unless Newt backs out, Romney is the nominee.

That’s my call. We know what yours is. We’ll see.

[Brown Deer]

The hard reality is that Rick has entered more contests, and has won more of them.

Who gives a crap? He can win half the states in the country, but if he doesn't have the delegates, then he's done! and you need to face the reality that he won't be getting a thousand delegates!

[JediJones]

Newt’s got 1,827,245 votes compared to Rick’s 1,957,515. There isn’t much space between them, about a 5% difference.