Florida Primary Report
In order to be ‘fair and balanced’ I should note that Newt ‘Efting’ Gingrinch is being sued for copyright infringement by Rude Music who own the rights to the song, ‘Eye of the Tiger’. They are all pirates and should be shut down.
Looking at the official results of the Florida primary: None of the Above won a convincing victory tonight, but the delegates will go to Romney with three-quarters of a million, the Grinch got a half million, Santorum a quarter million, and Paul an eighth of a million votes.
The turn out in Broward and Miami-Dade doesn’t look like they’ll make it to 30%, so the Cubans stayed home. Across the state the turn out is around 41%.
The Panhandle went for the Grinch with the possible exception of my county, Okaloosa, where Romney has a 200 vote lead. McCain may have helped Willard in this county.
This will move the Mittster back to the front of the pack, but there is no way of knowing what will happen in the caucuses that are coming up next.
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The conventional wisdom holds that caucuses go to the candidate with the most money, which would be the Romneybot. But that’s assuming normal candidates. The handlers of the Romneybot forgot the Charisma subroutine when they were spec’ing out the programming their candidate and seem to have outsourced the work to patch that glitch in their software to India, which is why it’s late and buggy and thus far hasn’t managed to be successfully run on the hardware, which keeps having to be reverted back to the old monotone Romney 2.0 software which keeps rebooting and losing track of what policies it last proposed, instead proposing all new ones that often contradict the old ones. I suspect an early version of Windows 95 was used for this hardware given its vintage, and I’m sure you remember how Windows 95 was rebooting all the time…
So anyhow, Ron Paul actually has an advantage in caucus states — his supporters are fanatical and well capable of dominating individual caucus meetings. So will it be the Romneybot, or Goldy, who takes the upcoming caucuses? Guess we’ll see.
– Badtux the Snarky Penguin
The good news is that the ads will stop. They have been infesting everything except the local roads. That is weird. No one thought enough of any of these candidates to stick a sign by their driveway. Ron Paul’s people had signs everywhere in 2008.
The polling on this was quite good, as far as the results are concerned, so I guess the 39% who said they wanted ‘None of the Above’ is also a good number. I also noted that almost no one under 30 voted in the election. I assume that those who did went for Paul.
Man, just stopping by my Mother’s and watching the stream of ads, all negative, at every commercial break was supremely annoying. I was almost hoping for a Scooter Store ad [note, I think that is some kind of Medicare fraud scam, but that’s just an opinion.]
They are all pirates and should be shut down.
hear, hear!
as for florida helping out the mittster, didn’t the republican party decide to do a repeat of 2008 – go ahead with an early primary and take the hit of having half the florida delegates not count?
Yes, so there were 50 delegates instead of 99 at stake. That’s fine with the Repubs because Florida media companies made a lot of money running advertising to annoy the populace.