South Carolina Preview

Today (Saturday) the South Carolina primary election will be held.

According to PPP (which leans Democratic, but that hardly matters here), Romney had a five point lead a week ago. Today, he's losing to Newt Gingrich by double digits.

So, surprise surprise, Newt is in all likelihood going to crush Romney.

And Romney's polling is collapsing nationwide as well. In particular, he was ahead by fifteen in Florida as of Monday, but things have really shifted since then. If the conservative base continues shifting to Gingrich, we could see the upset of the decade: a GOP ticket led by Newt Gingrich in 2012.

Followed, of course, by the biggest Democratic landslide since 1964.

South Carolina Preview

Today (Saturday) the South Carolina primary election will be held.

According to PPP (which leans Democratic, but that hardly matters here), Romney had a five point lead a week ago. Today, he's losing to Newt Gingrich by double digits.

So, surprise surprise, Newt is in all likelihood going to crush Romney.

And Romney's polling is collapsing nationwide as well. In particular, he was ahead by fifteen in Florida as of Monday, but things have really shifted since then. If the conservative base continues shifting to Gingrich, we could see the upset of the decade: a GOP ticket led by Newt Gingrich in 2012.

Followed, of course, by the biggest Democratic landslide since 1964.

It's official! #Santorum won #Iowa!

The Iowa GOP declared it:

Presidential candidate Rick Santorum won the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses, Republican Party leaders in the state said in an e-mail late yesterday.

“In order to clarify conflicting reports and to affirm the results released Jan. 18 by the Republican Party of Iowa, Chairman Matthew Strawn and the state central committee declared Senator Rick Santorum the winner,” the party said in a statement not attributed to any single person. ...

The former Massachusetts governor and business executive can no longer claim to have made history by becoming the first Republican non-incumbent to win both the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary since the caucuses became the start of the presidential nominating process in 1976.

Now you can get the hipster-approved t-shirt here.

It's official! #Santorum won #Iowa!

The Iowa GOP declared it:

Presidential candidate Rick Santorum won the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses, Republican Party leaders in the state said in an e-mail late yesterday.

“In order to clarify conflicting reports and to affirm the results released Jan. 18 by the Republican Party of Iowa, Chairman Matthew Strawn and the state central committee declared Senator Rick Santorum the winner,” the party said in a statement not attributed to any single person. ...

The former Massachusetts governor and business executive can no longer claim to have made history by becoming the first Republican non-incumbent to win both the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary since the caucuses became the start of the presidential nominating process in 1976.

Now you can get the hipster-approved t-shirt here.