2012 republican presidential nominee III: can romney get santorum out of his hair?

RickSantorum Rick Santorum
7M Californians had their rights stripped away today by activist 9th Circuit judges. As president I will work to protect marriage.
2 hours ago

btw this fn guy

moonbase jurassic park obv

http://i.imgur.com/c0VaX.png

Makes perfect sense: Santorum, Romney, and Paul are floating just above them, but Obama and the boy have just spotted Gingrich out in hyperspace.

is that J0rdan to Bam's left

ha

everyones saying santorums gonna win minnesota fwiw

When I saw that picture on Sullivan earlier today, my first thought was to issue a personalized invitation to Morbius for a caption.

But something fun--"drone" not allowed.

post pictures of people who are not j0rdan S

Just read The Onion's piece on "Romneymania." Favourite lines:

Countless reverent portraits of Romney have appeared in storefront windows and on building facades throughout the country, often accompanied by one of the candidate's signature inspirational phrases, like "Let Detroit go bankrupt" or "Corporations are people, my friend."

"Mitt's firm belief in unlimited corporate campaign donations is what first got me really excited," said 48-year-old pipe fitter David Flores, adding that another reason he joined "Romney Nation" was because he found it "pretty cool" that Romney pays a lower income tax rate than he does.

Many young Americans acknowledged they had felt disillusioned by politics until hearing Romney's explanation of how his coordination of corporate funding for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics renders him uniquely qualified to be president...

haha

so santorums gonna take 2 of 3 tonight

the people will never tire of not mitt

A second Santorum Surge just isn't doing it for me. I wish I could say otherwise, but the only remaining interest in this race is to see whether Newt tries to take the ship down with him or whether he backs off at some point.

santorum surging all over america

a steady stream of santorum surging

lol if santorum wins all three

a three-way santorum

oh the frothing

I will save Onion piece in case Willard is elected by the House. u all will lol

Holy crap, Santorum is apparently beating Romney in St. Louis. This is actually happening.

well i didn't see this one coming

wonder if the media is gonna play this as a fluke or a real thing

even if Romney loses all 3 races tnite, he's still got the nom locked up, right? this is just making him sweat a little first?

some of these contests are a little silly, the MO one i think bears zero relationship to how delegates are awarded.

wonder if the media is gonna play this as a fluke or a real thing

― iatee, Tuesday, February 7, 2012 10:20 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol this is the medias wet frothy dream come true, they will not pass up the opportunity to pimp these results

Nate Silver:

It should be remembered that no delegates will be awarded to the winner of the primary in Missouri, which will instead hold caucuses in March. And Rick Santorum made more of an effort to win the state than the other candidates.

Still, it is harder to write the result off as a fluke given Mr. Santorum's margin of victory there - and his geographic dominance. Mr. Romney held leads early on in St. Louis City and St. Louis County, but has since lost them as more votes have been counted. In fact, Mr. Romney leads in just one Missouri county right now, Boone County, where only two precincts have reported results.

wonder if the media is gonna play this as a fluke or a real thing

i'm going to guess real thing, just because that's way more than exciting then reporting "even if romney loses all three states tnite, he's still got the nom locked up"

it'd be pretty stupid to bet against romney at this point, but is there a way santorum could win? yeah there's a way.

xp

but this is like what, the 10th notromney? this whole thing has been amazing

really? that no one wants to crown someone from this field? I suspect the general will be similarly "amazing."

the general will be like this except the opposite

right, like 90% of people already know their vote

also obama is going to lead the whole time and then win

romney will possibly lead for like 10 minutes during the rnc

i thought of mentioning that but i felt like it made my post 'less strong'

expect the unexpected

sure but then the expected becomes unexpected and i dont know what to do

TPM Talking Points Memo
Wipeout: It's looking like Romney will not win a single county in Missouri tpm.ly/AlQ9u0
32 seconds ago

dang

intrade doesn't seem to think santorum will get colorado

:(

10:45 P.M. Romney Holding Serve in Denver Suburbs
The first results from the Denver metropolitan area are in and they should come as a relief to Mitt Romney. He has 49 percent of the vote in Douglas County so far and 53 percent in Arapahoe County.

In both cases, Mr. Romney's numbers are down from in 2008, when he won 72 percent in Douglas County and 66 percent in Arapahoe - but not catastrophically so given how wide Mr. Romney's margin was in Colorado that year.

If Mr. Romney gets those sort of numbers elsewhere in the Denver area, he should have a lot of cushion to do poorly elsewhere.

One important thing to watch is whether Rick Santroum is finishing second in these areas, or instead falling behind Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich. My back-of-the-envelope guess is that Mr. Romney is on track for something like 40 percent of the vote statewide or maybe just a bit shy of that. That could be enough for him to lose if most of the remaining votes are going for Mr. Santorum, but not if they are divided between several other opponents.

- Nate Silver

fivethirtyeight Nate Silver
Intrade now has Santorum as a 70/30 favorite in Colorado. That looks about right, I think.
2 minutes ago

:)

can romney get glitterbombs out of his hair?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPKHW6IlRHs

aahahahaha, i love this trend

https://p.twimg.com/AlGtFhhCAAABTdR.png

http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/images/GifGuide/clapping/citizen_cane.gif

when people are using the kaneclap gif, are they using it in the context of the movie, i.e. insincere clapping?

Drifted off for a while--quite amazing, even though Romney's up again in Colorado. I love Donna Brazile's assessment in this clip: "It was not his best night in terms of, you know, winnin'..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPKHW6IlRHs

they used to xp