What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
Pat Sajak ·
March 14, 2012 at 5:56pm
Why lie? I have no idea.
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Comments:
Apr '11
Re: What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
In a nutshell: It means the Nomination Race will continue.
Re: What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
You have no idea? Me neither. (The difference between us, Pat, is that you have the guts to say so.)
Re: What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
P.S. We'll see how this thread goes, but before the day is over Pat may very well have established a new record: the most comments prompted by the fewest words.
May '10
Re: What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
Who cares? We know how the nomination will turn out. The ugly tortoise will keep plodding, and the stop-start sprinting hares will keep yelling, the pundits will keep pontificating so they have something to talk about that avoids Obama and energy, economy, etc.
Right now, you have an ego-driven duel between Newt and Rick.
Jun '10
Re: What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
My take:
Romney: Two weeks ago, especially in the wake of Tennessee and South Carolina, the thought that Romney would do as well as he did in Alabama and Mississippi was unthinkable. But then expectations went up, so now what would have been a moral victory, is in some eyes a loss by Romney. Fact: Romney won more delegates yesterday than either Gingrich or Santorum. A bump in the road, but six weeks from now last night's results will not be viewed as big deal.
Santorum: Excellent wins, particularly when the betting began to go the other way. But if he doesn't make Illinois close or even win it, he's got problems.
Gingrich: Lives to fight another day, but the fact that he couldn't win Alabama (long border with Georgia) makes it clear that he has no chance.
On the other hand, all I said above may be completely wrong.
Bottom line: C.U. Douglas is right, and we'll all have something to talk about.
Edited on March 14, 2012 at 6:11pmOct '10
Re: What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
My advice to you would be to keep a death grip on your current position. With frank admissions like that, I don't see you breaking into political punditry in a big way.
Feb '12
Re: What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
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Jun '10
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May '10
Re: What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
Easy: They mean that Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich will prevent Mitt Romney from locking up 1,144 delegates prior to the convention, but that at the convention Romney will be nominated on the second ballot.
Any other questions? I'm feeling oracular today.
Apr '11
Re: What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
Hugh Hewitt knows - Romney is the inevitable nominee and Tuesday's results do not change this. I am pretty sure that this is what he is getting at in his recent tweet: "If this was match play golf, Rick would be six down to Mitt with five to play having halved the last six holes".
Re: What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
Six more weeks of winter.
Mar '11
Re: What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
Simply put, it means that the Republican party base still isn't happy about a Romney nomination, and refuses to say, as Peter once put it... "Oh, all right then".
Jun '10
Re: What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
If Peter would just say it (sincerely), the dam would break. But I'm not predicting it yet.
Mar '12
Re: What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
It means we have to spin the wheel again, Pat. The voters are going to have to turn around some more letters before we solve this puzzle.
Oct '10
Re: What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
Well, then, Hugh Hewitt don't know golf. If Rick's "six down with five to play," the match is both de jure and de facto over, and the boys leave the course. Mitt's won.
Since Rick still can win, he's more like "five down with six to play," to use Hugh's metaphor. And if that's not inevitable enough, then he's "eight down with nine to play." That's as close to inevitable a match play match can be (without being dormie).
Aug '11
Re: What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
Ahem...all...lest we forget that this is still a four man race. They may rarely show his picture on TV (especially during a debate) or discuss his performance at the weekly caucus or primary vote, but the fact remains that Ron Paul has a delegate total. He's not going anywhere anytime soon and at some point someone is going to have to make a deal for those delegates. I don't necessarily believe the Paulbot rumor that he might get a VP slot next to Romney but some horsetrading will be going on somewhere behind the scenes.
Mar '11
Re: What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
They mean that Mr Gingrich will find it increasingly hard to feed his ego with money, and may have to withdraw from the race, in which case Mr Santorum has a pretty good chance to win the nomination at the Convention.
If Mr Gingrich somehow manages to stay in the race, by selling Calista's jewelry, Peter's prediction from many moons ago applies - the conservative vote will remain split and the Rino squish will win the nomination. Rob will be pleased, but let's hope his prediction of an Obama win turns out to be wrong.
Next question?
Edited on March 14, 2012 at 6:45pmMay '10
Re: What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
But Newt just landed on "bankrupt..."
Mar '12
Re: What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
Considering the margin of the win, the RNC proportional distribution rules for delegates doesn't indicate any clear winner. Rick Santorum won the bragging rights in the South, however the other Hawaii/American Samoa results gave Romney the overall lead in the delegate count, neutralizing any Santorum gains.
The AL/MS results supported the factor that Santorum has evangelical support/winning rural counties (which occurred for Gingrich in South Carolina), and that Romney's popular votes are mostly gained in metropolitan areas.
Edited on March 14, 2012 at 6:46pmMar '11
Re: What Do Tuesday's Results Mean?
It means I shouldn't drink so heavily on a Monday night.