Monday, January 07, 2008

Hey the Chimes at Midnight scooped the Globe...

who noted in their campaign wrap up this morning, that most of Romney's questioners from yesterday's event in Nashua came from out of state.
In fact three out of the five questions tossed to him, came from persons who presumably could not vote in the New Hampshire Primary.
I don't presume to infer much from that factoid, there is a certain amount of spectacle of a kind that attends on the New Hampshire Primary that attracts a sporting sort of crowd, certainly it is no indicator of Romney's potential vote tomorrow.
The Globe also claims there were four hundred people in the room, how they arrived at that number I do not know since it was an unticketed, open to the public event.

Meanwhile, Rasmussen sez that the GOP race is tight and a lot depends on what increment of the independent vote McCain can drag into the GOP Primary tomorrow. If McCain wins even if he edges Romney it's the end of Willard's presidential hopes, he promised an old fashioned blitzkreig and got whipped by a giddy baptist shaman and the senate's most ill tempered blowhard.
A hard position to move up from to be sure.
Even if Romney wins, it might not be good news, McCain has but to close within five percentage points to seriously impede Romney's momentum.
Under this scenario the decision will be essentially exported to South Carolina, which is volatile ground for a candidate with no serious victories under his belt.
But honestly, I do hope he loses tomorrow night, you just know he won't take it well, Willard might even blow over the edge live on camera in a really interesting way.
The more I reflect on it, I wished I could've asked Romney his views on Darwin's theory of natural selection yesterday...I think his head would've exploded.

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