I've taken to wondering how many on the Virgin Right have had their addictions exposed by the Hispanic help.

As Mitt Romney gets trotted out to claim that winning UT, MA and MI is important, you half expect him to start blinking morse code like Jeremiah Denton: Get...me...out...of...this...hellhole

GA to the Huck

AZ to Maverick despite half of GOP voters saying illegal immigrants should be deported.

Mitt running 3rd in MO

This is all just the grand puppet show. We will hold our respective noses and pull the lever to the R even if it IS McCain -- which it appears it will be.

Funny stuff. We never doubted you Fred. And I guess Mitt is as deluded as the Cornerites/Malkins/etcs of the world.

I'm waiting for McCain to come out, flip the bird to the right, and say amnesty is coming and if W doesn't order it, then he'll make it issue number one next January.

After watching the Huck steal a march on Mitt, how did the Obama folks let Hillary get out there first?

JR:

That would not necessarily be true were it Mitt.

Just got back from a visit to my local precinct caucus here in Denver. Rather quiet affair, with a fair amount of Mitt supporters. I entered my McCain vote, elected my precinct captain/state convention delegates, and called it a night.

So far, it looks as though Romney is ahead in the balloting. Not that it matters, though: McCain will carry Colorado in the general.

Mitt can win caucuses because he has money. He just can't win contested primaries.

At 11:15 pm EST, Mitt Romney walked into his living room and declared to his wife and children:

"You know, if I spend the rest of the family fortune on this darned election, I'm SURE I can still win the nomination!"

They immediately locked him in the closet. I understand commitment proceedings are pending.

I am watching Brit Hume shed some of his considerable dignity by sitting in front of a "Next Polls Close" sign. Fox News has to lay off the gimmicks.

It's only 2% in, but McCain has a 21 percentage point lead in California.

In a bid to do as much damage to the GOP as Pete Wilson, Mitt apparently spent a bundle on anti-immigration ads in LA County against McCain.

Did Obama really just say that he doesn't give W the benefit of the doubt on Iran? The pro-Iran vote has to be pretty minute in American elections, no?

Maverick wins MO, which is huge.

Maverick and Hillary just won CA and their parties respective nominations.

So will we hear the Romney campaign bragging about all those valuable Bronzes?

When McCain delivers his acceptance speech in Minneapolis, Hugh Hewitt will be on the radio insisting that he's not really a frontrunner.

Hewitt, Coulter, Rush, and NRO are bitter-enders as much as those leftists still whining about Florida and Ohio.

Huckabee gets to spend the next couple days shoving tonight's results in Romney's face. Can't say he doesn't deserve it.

What do you make of the 64/36 Dem/GOP voter turnout ratio? Is it just a function of the closeness of the Democratic race? Or is the GOP doomed come November?

Sounds like Mitt's done. They're meeting tomorrow to decide whether to even contest KS.

Contest KS after dissing Bob, bless him, Dole? Up a rope, anyone?

djs,

I'd have to see some historical context -- which no one seems to be providing when they bring up those numbers.

Off the top of my head though I'd say Republicans tend not to be as excitable as the Dems, who are always in search of excitement, the next JFK!1!!!, and therefore flock to primary elections.

A lot of Republicans and a lot of independents especially, just don't vote in primaries. I never have.

At the end of the day, how many independents are going to punch their ballot for Hillary over McCain? And if its Mr. Changiness? Well, we saw in California tonight that Hispanics won't be voting Obama. And once everyone else finds out who he really is?

The respective turnouts don't mean much. Almost every cycle, some media types breathlessly announce that the high Democratic turnout portends big things in the fall.

Lots of Dems are excited about Obama - were he not in the race, Hillary would already be queen, but with probably 40% fewer total votes (let's face it, Pretty Boy just didn't excite anybody).

And the GOP has been pretty dispirited since early 2005. Nobody seized the 'mantle' and made this race his own (other than Huckabee). McCain is winning states with 35% of the vote, which is pretty poor for the next-in-line. Bush Sr. and Dole were already on top at this point in their races.

Things will be different in November. They always are.

However, I do look forward to the 'analysis' of Huckabee voters from the pundits. I can understand voting against McCain and/or Romney, but I just don't get a vote for Huck. It's almost like voting for Dobson, who is fast becoming a political martyr.

I thought McCain was the neocon candidate.

It took 32 years but we can finally vote for the Scoop Jackson Democrat we wanted.

There is the minor problem that I'm no longer a Scoop Jackson Democrat. For one thing, I'd prefer a candidate who actually knows something about economics.

Huckabee's a likeable guy with genuine social conservative credentials. Now that Fred's out of the race, it's a given he'd be polling stronger.

The neocons supported McCain in '00 against the Evangelical W. This time they supported Rudy and then Mitt, as the most socially liberal candidates available. William Safire and several others (maybe even Bill Kristol?) announced they were voting for Bill Clinton in '92. Non-observant Jews really dislike Christians/social conservatism.

Huckabee is the most Christian candidate.

Hillary can gin up female turnout, enthusiastic about the first woman president. Obama can turn out blacks and students.

How does the losing side turn out in November?