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ABC News:
A prominent Republican senator just told me that if Romney can’t win in Michigan, the Republican Party needs to go back to the drawing board and convince somebody new to get into the race.
“If Romney cannot win Michigan, we need a new candidate,” said the senator, who has not endorsed anyone and requested anonymity.
Hey, he said it, not me.
Jesse Contario/HuffPost:
Republicans like to say their current primary fight is "just like" the 2008 primary between Obama and Clinton -- but it's just wishful thinking.
Timothy Egan:
There is no other way to put this without resorting to demographic bluntness: the small fraction of Americans who are trying to pick the Republican nominee are old, white, uniformly Christian and unrepresentative of the nation at large.
They are also nutjobs, wackos and politically insane. And that's just the candidates.
Yes, we know Republicans don’t like their choices; it’s a meh primary. But still, in some states, this election could be happening in a ghost town. Less than 1 percent of registered voters turned out for Maine’s caucus. In Nevada, where Republican turnout was down 25 percent from 2008, only 3 percent of total registered voters participated.
This is not majority rule by any measure; it barely qualifies as participatory democracy.
It's a Republican primary, you know the kind where the people tallying the votes just make stuff up (aka a
caucus state.)
NY Times:
The full details of recent experiments that made a deadly flu virus more contagious will be published, despite recommendations by the United States government that some information be kept secret for safety reasons, an official of the World Health Organization said on Friday.
That's H5N1, or bird flu. Yeah, it's still out there, and it's still bad.
Gallup:
Americans believe history will judge Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton as the best among recent U.S. presidents, with at least 6 in 10 saying each will go down in history as an above-average or outstanding president. Only about 1 in 10 say each will be remembered as below average or poor. Three years into Barack Obama's presidency, Americans are divided in their views of how he will be regarded, with 38% guessing he will be remembered as above average or outstanding and 35% as below average or poor.
it's way too early to place Obama anywhere. Reagan and Clinton are judged after two terms.
Nixon and George W. Bush are rated as the worst, with roughly half of Americans believing each will be judged negatively.
What's with the other half?
Take that Suffolk poll with Scott Brown leading Elizabeth Warren with a huge grain of sea salt. Both links worth a good read.