2012 republican presidential nominee IV: NEEDS MORE BOOING

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_qM6V6-HRzM0/S8iMpBghvuI/AAAAAAAADig/8XogJdBzYXE/obama-bow-king.jpg

Newt Gingrich Ideas ‏ @GingrichIdeas
Become a historian of my own campaign.

but most of all from this campaign i will miss the newt gingrich ideas twitter

Kathryn Jean Lopez ‏ @kathrynlopez

there's more to life than super tuesday (really!)

I can't imagine much more for her.

Kinda hoping this all builds up to a complete slugfest in Texas with extra Perry LOLs.

Santorum going hard against Obamacare and Mitt's Mass. program.

He's seen those videos mentioned earlier. Shit just got REAL.

Talking Points Memo ‏ @TPM
OHIO: 60% reporting - Santorum 38.2%, Romney 36.4% tpm.ly/zTmPU6

At 71% reporting it hasn't changed much. About 14,000 votes differently.

whoa

differently? I meant "Between them".

and Santorum has won North Dakota.

RICK! RICK! RICK! RICK! RICK!

this is just like that other time he won all those states a few weeks ago!

you really wonder what this would be like if gingrich had dropped out. if santo had georgia tonight too it'd be pretty hard to frame tonight as a romney win of any sort.

if santo wins ohio its gonna be reported as nothing but a v bad nite 4 mitt

yeah he underperformed but not bad enough to lose the nom

spin rooms "Romney could barely beat/lost to Santorum despite outspending him 12 to 1" etc etc

hmm intrade still has him 60% at winning ohio, maybe ppl are doing some math

romney at 81% to win the nom is ridiculous at this point. gah I wish it weren't so hard to put money on.

silver has already wtf'd intrade tonight

did you guys forget to carry the one

yah bunch of people have been wtfing intrade on twitter

Josh Marshall ‏ @joshtpm
Ohio def tightening in Mitts favor.

santorum is getting squeezed out of ohio you say

81% in and a slimmer difference of 6,000. Cincinnati will be interesting when it comes in.

intrade is still small enough that one person who is willin to waste a lot of money can make weird things happen.

84% and Santorum is leading by about 2,700

that's why I sorta want a buncha wall st firms to get into it, get their quants busy pricing rick santorum, hundreds of nate silvers working at once

I'm not looking at where the votes are coming from but that 81 to 84 trend isn't a good one

more than half of cuyahoga yet to report and romney has huge adv there, also another cleveland suburban county prob favorable to romney hasn't reported at all

medina county

anyone who disagrees w/ that can make 10x their money on intrade atm

i think a lot of the cities were last to come in - a lot of cleveland is still out - romney is winning those areas. john king reporting this right now & suggests he will prob get enough votes there to take the lead?
cnn has really been v good on covering these primaries.

Looks like Romney's won Ohio. He's a strategic genius--embarrasses himself for a couple of hours, ekes out another one, "wins" the night.

@jdickerson
The heels of the Santorum staffers just clicked out of this gym in OH at a quick pace like they know something...
8 minutes ago

romney is the guy who wins in the cities and santorum wins in the non-urban counties. as if there was any doubt, romney is the democrat of the republican primaries

Cleveland, Ohio - Though Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are locked in a tight race statewide, Romney appears on his way to winning more delegates at the Congressional district level.

Based on results at this hour, Romney is in line with claim 34 delegates to Santorum's 22, with the allocation of one delegate too close to call.

Santorum has been running strong in rural areas, with Romney claiming more urban areas.

A major reason is that Santorum is not on the ballot for delegates being awarded in three Congressional districts: the 6th, 9th and 13th districts.

Forty-eight Ohio delegates to the Republican National Convention will be determined by votes at the congressional level, with 15 other delegates being determined by the overall vote.

gdamn it i h8 u mittens

what's worst is how giddy he must be right now

To correct myself, obvious Romney doesn't win the night. But if he survives Ohio, he crawls forward in the right direction.

dennis kucinich about to lose his primary.. wow

rip big man

he still has his wife at least

Obama now unopposed in biggest-ears primary.

Everyone knew at the beginning of the night that Romney was going to come out of Ohio with more delegates. The percentage is important for momentum and perception among voters/party elders/etc.

dennis kucinich about to lose his primary.. wow

― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 10:02 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that was predictable, i think. he's up against a very popular representative who's been serving since the early 80s.

oh was it a redistricting thing? i hadn't been paying attention

romney now with 1k lead at 84.7%

oh was it a redistricting thing? i hadn't been paying attention

― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Tuesday, March 6, 2012 10:10 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah. ohio lost 2 or 3 representatives and most of kucinich's district (around cleveland) was combined with much of kaptur's district (around toledo).