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The GOP base is willing to burn their party down to make a point. That point? We don't like Mitt Romney.

Doesn't like Mitt

after tonight? The Republicans are screwed if they can't keep MO in November and flip IN. And that may prove impossible with Romney as the Midwest sure doesn't seem to like him.

are they just going to deluge the state with votes at some point?

After tonight, Mitt's developers are going to have to upgrade his firmware.

Are they drunk? Dead? Where are the results?

CNN is reporting 11% reporting for a total of some 970 votes. Extrapolating would out turnout at 9,000 votes total. Really?

Can't wait for his speech. Or is he on a plane to Arizona?

Does that one Koch brother look just like Stephen Colbert?

in very slow. Why do conservatives have such difficulty counting?

get tired just smiling." Boy these are some wacky, wacky times!

is whether Santorum carries every county in Missouri.

seems kinda lame for coming in a weak fourth in Minnesota - a state Romney won last time!

Up to 26% on CNN. 4500 total votes. Santorum up 42-31

the $500 million the Kochs/Rove plan to spend ain't gonna be enough to make a dfference.

:-)

Santorum only got an 11 point bounce from Iowa into New Hampshire. Gingrich got a 30 point bounce out of South Carolina into Florida which faded. He got a 27 point bounce in the National polling. As I wrote at Dkos in 2007, the average bounce out of New Hampshire for a non-front runner in National polling is 30 points, and Obama got a 26 point swing from his win in South Carolina in 2008.

So here is the average of the last 3 polls:
Romney 36.3, Gingrich 24.3, Santorum 16.6 Paul 12.5
If I plug in the Obama data and the data from other bounces, I get this:

Romney 31, Santorum 30, Gingrich 18, Paul 10

This strikes me as conservative, but much will depend on whether Santorum wins Colorado.

have been called off due to a lack of interest.

vote counting? Larry, Moe, and Curly?

Mitt Romney is still the front runner?

The Romney campaign would be in disaster mode.

in Colorado with 26% counted.

Santorum 42%
Romney 31%
Gingrich 15%
Paul 12%

Is that a libertarian no-no?

...doesn't win a single county out of three states on the same day? Looks like we just might find out tomorrow (or sometime next century at the rate the CO GOP counts votes).

By 10%....that does not bode well for Rmoney

He's fixin' to bust out.

All around the world people are wondering, who is this Santorum guy? Curious to know more, they go online and do a google search...

Someone up there really loves Barack :)

First, our own Markos on Twitter makes a great catch from this WSJ story that Team Romney for November regards Arizona a battleground, and Minnesota not: http://blogs.wsj.com/...

Second, Nate Silver's liveblog on NYT has this great copy-and-paste comment from a reader:

A FiveThirtyEight reader, Matthew H., stepped into the shoes of a Romney campaign strategist, and made this prediction:

For the next few primaries (Arizona, Michigan and Super Tuesday), Romney is going to take no chances on relaxing his attack. And he is going to spend lots of money to advertise. I guess Romney figured that these contests were relatively low-profile and low-impact, and that even if he slipped a little, it wouldn't matter. But he isn't just slipping a little, he is getting his entire narrative of "nevability" taken apart in three geographically diverse, and important states...two of which he won in 2008.

So I expect the next few weeks to see strong negative attacks on Santorum, and Gingrich, across Arizona, Michigan and many of the Super Tuesday states...and since it cost over 10 million to advertise in Florida for a week, how much money and goodwill is Romney going to have to spend to get back to "inevability" in Michigan and Ohio?

If that prediction holds true, the Romney campaign will have plenty of time before the next contests to hammer away at its rivals. Arizona and Michigan hold their primaries on Feb. 28.

- Micah Cohen

This is something I've been thinking (and maybe commenting here though I don't remember for sure) in recent days, that the key for us in the GOP primaries is to see if Romney can be rendered broke with a tattered public image, rather than flush with cash and unscathed. That matters. A lot. And right now broke with a tattered public image looks a lot more likely. Mitt is going to have to spend his wad on attack ads in a lot of states to fend off these clownish rivals, and that helps us.

headquarters

Too much.

"And we need to give these roustabouts and scoundrels in the Fed some real what for!!"

When Ron Paul speaks, I'd swear he was running for President in 1912, not 2012.

He has no idea how tonight happened and what it all means. Hahahahaha, Gergen stumped, Imagine that.

Santorum 42% Romney 31%!! 26% reporting.

of the night of the Iowa caucus and something Rove said back then: "People I'm talking to on the ground say this will probably come around for Romney." And we all know what was going on that night in Iowa and was confirmed when Romney was stripped of his "win" weeks later. Can't prove anything, but Fleischer's statement was like deja vu.

The Colorado results are pretty good for Santorum. He's winning a lot of counties Romney won in 2008. Some handily. Even in the counties Romney is holding, his vote percentage is way down.

That is (a) a suburb of Denver and (b) considered a swing county in the general. if Mitt is losing counties like this in Colorado now, I dont think he will win the caucuses there tonight and just as importantly win the state in the general.

and you get Santorum!

Santorum's victory speech tonight was incredibly whiny -- which I suppose may be an appropriate tone for someone seeking the position of Victim-in-Chief of the pitiably oppressed conservative party.

very southerly co.

Just basing that on LDS population, so we'll see if it holds true.

Mitt's "poor" comment hurt him more than anyone has guessed.

Disaster. Epic.

and Santorum is closing fast. If he wins Colorado this race is not over. Shocking, but tremendous.

... decision!

on Santorum now that Romney already played that card with Gingrich. Especially if he tries to go the same route of having establishment Republicans bash him.

At some point grassroots Republicans should be calling BS on the GOP establishment who are determined to have Romney as the nominee.

...denied a single county in Missouri. Heh.

Pass the popcorn, indeed.

Goddam Ron Paul won't shut up. Ever.

these 3 states?

... proves to be most powerful endorsement of the year!

...bar at his parties?

...would love to see him choke on Santorum...

COME IN 1 or 2!!!!

He isn't sure...and that says a ton...

they refer to him. they are saying he is the "real conservative" and newt should step aside and let rick become all he can become. for once i am totally supporting their dreams by burning tana leaves and rubbing a live rabbits foot.....do right wingers go to bed early or is red state only getting comments from people from erik's clone pod?

to have to give speech on a night like this...L-O-S-E-R. Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.

Either of these guys would take the VP slot.

They think the contraceptive issue wins the election for them. Around here it seems the CW right now is they're totally wrong. I think it radically firms up their base no matter who the candidate is. Does Obama actually gain votes in the middle? I'm standard depressed as I think the contraceptive thing, while the right thing to do, is gonna hurt us bad because it'll be played as forcing Xians to perform abortions. So if we can win on the economy we have to fight yet another culture war showdown anyway. That's gotta hurt down ticket. People are bored with HCR but this creates another epic litmus test.

Or maybe I'm misunderestimating my fellow citizens. I've been burned getting my hopes up but here's hoping ...

nice job!

Newt and Frothy

is a real bad idea for you right about now, no matter how you spin it.

thing didn't go over so well in the heartland, Mitt.

Still waiting for you to speak up about fixing the "Romney Loophole" so you pay in the same bracket as a elementary school principal.

Yeah, we remember, you don't care about the "poor."

Santorum up to 35% for CO

Having "technical" issues....

This is the problem with caucus, primaries are at least run by election boards and not incompetent party members LOL

In other words, despite what you the voters think, you're stuck with me anyway. Got that?

That Pres. Obama doesn't even live up to his own definition of success.

OBL dead, GM alive, 23 consecutive months of positive job growth, expansion of access to healthcare, etc etc.

absolutely lose their shit when MO awards all its delegates to rMoney.

About the poor" comments hasn't wrecked Romney, just doesn't know politics.

Techs, quick, the bot is sweating, change programs.
Stat!

Answer: NOT FUCKING MITT ROMNEY!

Hahahahahahahaaa...

...to reclaim the spotlight.

He'll somehow spin this into a win for himself...talk about the rejection of Romney's negativity and false conservatism.

You know, completely ignoring the fact that he himself won no contests either.

You know, the kinds of hypocritical statements he always makes.

that these states don't matter? Because I know that's what he's thinking - hence the teleprompter. He can't make a mistake of saying how he really feels.

Hope frothy Rick enjoys tonight.

Tomorrow Romney's minions will go all out on him. The only question is how long before Romney manages to bring up something along the lines of"

"Just Google Santorum .... and his history on earmarks" or something lame like that, anything to put Google and Santorum in the same sentence.

It's only a matter of time, Mittens has nothing to offer

...to hold someone accountable for things they said in the past?

We get it - Obama has been a total fuckup ... just horrible. Fine.

But, why should anyone vote FOR you?

start being brought up...

The Mormon Issue...

We are quite possibly seeing a Bradley effect...

I may write a diary on this....he is a bad candidate, but why is he underperforming anywhere outside of major urban areas?

He could lose this thing if that is part of it?

This birth control issue may have had a huge impact as well. There is more to this. These blowouts are too big.

And the lack of exit polls really hurts.

amounts to saying that Pres. Obama has failed and that Romney will succeed. Never any specifics, relentlessly negative--he is simply one of the worst candidates in modern presidential history.

And that crowd he's speaking in front of just adds to the sad, sorry context of this night for him.

Also...it's not that Romney hasn't tried to serve in Washington--it's just that he sucks as a politician. In that sense, he doesn't have a political career. Having one of those would require winning more than one election and doing that with an actual majority of voters, not a plurality in a 3 candidate race.

(CO)

Like Mitt In This Race.

Letterman - He looks like the guy on a package of underwear.

I can't stop laughing...

then let Bain Capital turn it into a condo.

because his dad was an everyman, thus, I am an everyman.

Romney's best chance at winning a Midwestern state is the one that should be leading the charge against him. But then again he was born in Michigan.

his dad's humble beginnings to undercut Santorum's immigrant grandfather?

extremist cabal :anit-abortion, and has been for nearly 30 years. The party put up a bunch of teahadists for the legislature, and they were elected, but the party organization is solidly one issue.

Wow. I love seeing Republicans suffer. I hope this primary season never ends!

8:34 PM PT (Jed Lewison): Mitt Romney is about to start speaking. He's going from a TelePrompter. Have you ever heard of a TelePrompter concession speech?

Typical, artificial Romney.

God, he's such a pathetic hypocrite.

If only the rubes could see it.

I have to agree with Steve Kornacki in Salon: come November, even the millions of GOP voters who have no use for Romney will crawl over flaming broken glass to vote against the Kenyan Muslim Socialist Usurper.

Cut their losses and prop up a new puppet?