Mitt Romney Goes Two for Two ....

Guy Smiley Wins the Granite State ....


       Our night was ruined... After being up til 300AM last week while we waited for a couple idiots to find their caucus tallies in Iowa, we were prepared to watch the New Hampshire for a couple hours.  Not quite... At exactly 8:01, Fox called the Primary for Mitt Romney.  So, what will we do for the rest of the night?  We'll blog about it.....


      Compared to Iowa, New Hampshire was a bit of a yawner.  When the real race is for second and fourth, that'll happen... Basically, Mitt Romney held serve.  The real surprise was last week. When you're expected to win, and you pull off a 13 point win, it's not very exciting.  But, like Jim Valvano used to call it, you survive and advance. The good news for Romney is that the entire field will advance onto South Carolina, so survive and advance is more like divide and conquer..


       What does Romney have going for him? Right now, it's all about electability.. 51% of those who voted for him said that was why.  In short, if they think you can win tomorrow, then you will win today.  In a surprise to everyone but us, Ron Paul and his Co-Ed Army took advantage of the Live Free or Die independents to a solid second place finish over Jon Huntsman.  We're still not sure if Paul can hold the mantle of the Conservative alternative to Romney, but he isn't going anywhere with the most solid showing by the rest of the field...


      As for the rest of the pack, we're not too enthused about their showings. Huntsman's third is respectable, but he really needed a second here, and South Carolina has not been too welcoming for him so far.  He's got a long way to go.  Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are fighting it out at 10% - whoopdie frickin' doo....  Gingrich is almost in free fall mode, and Santorum underperformed what he was polling at, which means once voters in New Hampshire took a good look, they changed their minds at the polls.   Between the two, Santorum appears to be in better shape - but one of the two, and Rick Perry, needs to get out to compete with Romney and Paul.


       So, it's onto South Carolina now... What will it bring?  We'll wait until some new polls come out, and more importantly, what we see when we get on Palmetto State soil.  We wished we could spend more time there during the Primary, but the schedule sucks, but we'll show what we see while we're down there..  See ya there!

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