election nattering

[rm]

WHY IS HUCKABEE DOING SO WELL?

Also, why is CNN focusing on who is winning a state for the Dems when the Dems split states?

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[sethg]

Note that except for Arkansas and West Virginia, Huckabee is "winning" with pluralities.

They really don't like Mitt in the South, it seems.

What I can't understand is why Massachusetts Republicans went for Romney, after all he did to piss on the state in general and the state Republican Party in particular.

[weirdquark]

If you look at the town by town results, McCain did well in the more liberal areas; Romney got the more conservative parts of the state. According to the Boston Globe, much of McCain's support in MA back in 2000 came primarily from the swing voters and we voted Democrat this year.

So it's not that the Massachusetts Republicans went for Romney, it's that those of us who didn't like Romney cared more about who would get the Democratic delegates than about which Republican won, because when it comes down to the election in November, Massachusetts is going to vote Democrat no matter who the Republican running is. (Obama got more votes than all of the Republicans combined. By about 17,000.)