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Thursday, February 07, 2008

Mitt Romney is NOT Staying in the Race

...but why? Real Clear Politics has the most recent delegate totals and after California was finally tallied, Mitt was completely obliterated. He's now down to McCain 720-279. Since most of the remaining states proportionally award their delegates, it's nearly mathematically impossible for him to win. It's as likely as being struck by lightning while being attacked by a shark.

So why is he staying in the race? Dig this quote from Romney's top spokesman.
"We feel very confident about our chances moving forward, and frankly, I didn't think (Super Tuesday) was the day Senator McCain hoped it would be," Fehrnstrom said. "He wanted to be the presumptive nominee this morning and, clearly, he's not."
Huh? The score is 720-279. Here's an animal graph of the situation.

McCain's delegates are the pit bull. Romney's are the chihuahua.

So Mitt is staying in the race so that he can...what? Get thrashed even more?

Does Southwest Texas Technical College ask for a fifth quarter of football when it plays LSU?

Update: Mitt has decided to suspend his campaign, effectively giving the nomination to McCain. Way to go, Mitt! I changed the title of this post to reflect this new development.
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2 comments:

  1. Rose9:16 AM

    I just wanna know who the VP is going to be.

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  2. A Jacksonian7:00 PM

    Very interesting to see how the R party is coming apart. Mind you we now have three folks running for office each of which wants civil rights for terrorists that would give their lawyers access to classified data. Seems we have forgotten Lynne Stewart and the Blind Sheikh.

    I think there are a few of the oldest type of conservative in the R party starting to know what the Jacksonians felt like during the late 1960s and early '70s with the D party. Gets a might bit lonely standing by the founders... not the modern way so many want to view them for their own partisan ends, but how the founders actually set up the Nation.

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