Good Night For Santorum
Mollie Hemingway, Ed. ·
February 8, 2012 at 3:50am
Rick Santorum has won Missouri. And I have a report from my mother's caucus (#503) in Castle Rock, Colorado (a caucus from my hometown was also streaming live on CNN.com tonight, which was awesome):
Romney: 15
Santorum: 10
Gingrich: 6
Paul: 1
Where else can you get this type of reporting about my mother's caucus results? What else are you hearing out there?
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Jul '10
Re: Good Night For Santorum
I'm hearing Paul Pierce passed Larry Bird for #2 on the Celtics all-time scoring list. Whoops, wrong topic. Santorum has an early lead in MN. Could make things very interesting.
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I can't tell you how awesome it is for me to be watching my actual former neighbors caucus on CNN right now. They're talking about medicinal marijuana right now. Earlier they were talking about why candidates stop being conservatives once elected. Just great, great, television.
Aug '11
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I don't make much out of the Santorum win in Missouri today. It was a barren landscape at the polls today due to the weather and the fact that this vote was just for show. 65,000 votes isn't much since so many people stayed home. BTW...Gingrich was off the ballot and Perry, Cain and Bachman received over 4,000 between them...what does that say about today's vote? I'll wait to see how it plays out at caucus and then we will really know how it's going down.
Apr '11
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We have more on the ground reporting on the faux live chat post, from Western Chauvinist.
It's an amazing night. The biggest upset of the race so far, easily beating the last big upset (featuring the same winner as the second biggest).
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James Of England: We have more on the ground reporting on the faux live chat post, from Western Chauvinist.
It's an amazing night. The biggest upset of the race so far, easily beating the last big upset (featuring the same winner as the second biggest). · 2 minutes ago
James, you'll be happy to know my mom voted for Romney.
Feb '12
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FOX News is reporting Santorum at 43% with 15 % counted in Minnesota
Paul at 27%
Mitt at 17%
Newt at 12
Apr '11
Re: Good Night For Santorum
Mollie Hemingway, Ed.
James Of England: We have more on the ground reporting on the faux live chat post, from Western Chauvinist.
It's an amazing night. The biggest upset of the race so far, easily beating the last big upset (featuring the same winner as the second biggest). · 2 minutes ago
James, you'll be happy to know my mom voted for Romney. · 2 minutes ago
I knew previously you came from good stock, but I do particularly appreciate people voting for Mitt tonight. Third place finishes are not meant to be a feature of this cycle.
Aug '11
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Wow. Thanks for the live link to the Caucus. Wisconsin has a Primary, so I'm pretty clueless about how Caucuses work. But this is really fascinating. I have no clue why they're voting about public employee pensions, but I like what I'm hearing.
Jan '11
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I have to admit, Mollie, when I saw your headline "Good Night for Santorum" ... I wondered whether it praised a win or .. it bade him good night and farewell.
Nov '11
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Four years ago Romney won about 11 Missouri counties, mostly north of Kansas City, the one area that is more Methodist than Baptist. This time it doesn't look like he's going to win any counties. The city of St. Louis isn't considered a county. In 2010, the individual mandate Obamacare measure was defeated in all 114 counties with 71% of the vote. Romney is winning about 30% of the vote in his best counties with that being suburban St. Louis County, Boone County (where the University of Missouri is located), Cole County (where the capital and government employees live), and Buchanan County (with St. Joseph, the Pony Express city). Romney is fortunate to to be getting about 25% of the vote in conservative Greene County where the third largest city Springfield is located, in wealthy St. Charles County, and in poor conservative Southeast Missouri. Romney's best county at 37% might be Pemiscot, the one county that voted for George Wallace back in 1968.
Dec '10
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Colorado is giving me palpitations. A few minutes ago when I checked the CNN site, Romney and Santorum were tied. Now Santorum has a 9 point lead with 22% of precincts reporting. I predict El Paso county, which is very significant to how the state swings among Republicans, is going to go hard for Santorum. What a night!
May '10
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In the next few days, the long knives will be coming out for Santorum. The barrels of Romney's overwhelmingly positive campaign, and of their allies, will be aimed squarely at him.
If he can turn this into some good momentum that withstands those attacks, I'll be very pleased.
Edited on February 8, 2012 at 5:30amSep '10
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Why do you pollute this thread with that kind of idiocy? Who cares about the Celtics? Everyone knows the important thing is that Papiss Cisse scored the game-winner for Newcastle on Sunday.
Geeze.
;-)
Sep '10
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It's inevitable.
Edited on February 8, 2012 at 5:50amNov '11
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Santorum actually won the City of St. Louis. I've never known the "more conservative" candidate to win the City of St. Louis. The trick is that only a little more than 3500 Republican ballots were cast in the entire city. Santorum beat Romney 53%-30% in more populous St. Louis County and by a margin of 49%-31% in Jackson County, a very similar county where Kansas City is located. Wow, I certainly didn't think that the less secular and urban areas of St. Louis, Kansas City, and Columbia would support Santorum, especially by such a wide margin.
St. Charles County, now larger than the City of St. Louis, is one of the most important counties in the state. I believe it had the highest turnout in 2008, preventing Obama from carrying the state. St. Charles County is also the most-wealthy county in the state. In 2009, Bloomberg classified it as the 70th-richest county just ahead of San Francisco County, yet Romney was crushed here by Santorum by a margin of 56%-25%!
Edited on February 8, 2012 at 7:35amApr '11
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My local caucus (80921) went like this:
Romney 48
Santorum 41
Gingrich 13
Ron Paul 9
Other 1
Apr '11
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The Cloaked Gaijin: Romney actually won the City of St. Louis. I've never known the "more conservative" candidate to win the City of St. Louis. The trick is that only a little more than 3500 Republican ballots were cast in the entire city. Santorum beat Romney 53%-30% in more populous St. Louis County and by a margin of 49%-31% in Jackson County, a very similar county where Kansas City is located. Wow, I certainly didn't think that the less secular and urban areas of St. Louis, Kansas City, and Columbia would support Santorum, especially by such a wide margin.
St. Charles County, now larger than the City of St. Louis, is one of the most important counties in the state. I believe it had the highest turnout in 2008, preventing Obama from carrying the state. St. Charles County is also the most-wealthy county in the state. In 2009, Bloomberg classified it as the 70th-richest county just ahead of San Francisco County, yet Romney was crushed here by Santorum by a margin of 56%-25%! ·
Where are you getting your numbers from? Santorum won the City of St. Louis 45%-26%
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Peter Meza: My local caucus (80921) went like this:
Romney 48
Santorum 41
Gingrich 13
Ron Paul 9
Other 1 · 43 minutes ago
And that's El Paso! Something tells me Romney will win ...
Re: Good Night For Santorum
Mollie Hemingway, Ed.
Peter Meza: My local caucus (80921) went like this:
Romney 48
Santorum 41
Gingrich 13
Ron Paul 9
Other 1 · 43 minutes ago
And that's El Paso! Something tells me Romney will win ... · 0 minutes ago
Although I'm hearing i'm wrong ...
Apr '11
Re: Good Night For Santorum
Mollie Hemingway, Ed.
Peter Meza: My local caucus (80921) went like this:
Romney 48
Santorum 41
Gingrich 13
Ron Paul 9
Other 1 · 43 minutes ago
And that's El Paso! Something tells me Romney will win ... · 1 minute ago
At 55% counted, there's a... well, it was a 16 vote Santorum lead, but it's just gone up to 268. And Romney's best county has declared....