So which Puke bags Michigan?

[saltpoint]

McCain? Romney? Huckabee? One of the others?

What if they held a primary and nobody showed up to vote?

[lvx35]

1. Word on the street is Romney.

But I have no clue.

[Yael]

2. I think this one is Romney's

[saltpoint]

4. That's two votes so far for robot Romney. I guess a lot of people still

remember his dad.

[Yael]

6. Who was his Dad?

I just keep hearing that he is all but conceding SC and polling quite high in MI.

[saltpoint]

9. Mitt's dad was George Romney, 3-term Michigan GOP governor who

challenged Nixon for the party's nom in 1968.

[Yael]

10. Interesting. I did not know that, and did not know they were from there.

[saltpoint]

12. He's roamed to far-flung places ever since those early days of his dad's

hey-day, but it may still give him a leg up on old man McCain. It's hard to say how Michigan Republicans are thinking these days about their field of candidates.

[napi21]

3. I have no idea, but I HOPE Mittens loses! Seems the Pub establishment

wants HIM to be the nominee, and although I don't like any of their candidates, I want Mittens to lose just to prove that the nomination can't be bought...even by a rich by who spends his own money!

[TwilightGardener]

5. I think McCain is leading in the polls there, followed by Mittens and Huck--

if Mittens loses, he might as well quit. If he can't win in his home state, he can't win anywhere else. End of the road for Mittens. Thus, I hope Mittens wins, and McCain wins SC, and Rudy wins FL, and we keep this clown circus going for months, whilst they run out of money and savage each other.

[saltpoint]

7. The entire GOP field clawing each other to death like feral animals is a

wonderful outcome.

I'm in.

[Yael]

8. Now THAT would be amusing

if they all weren't so darn boring to watch.

[murielm99]

11. Let Mittens have this one.

It will just confuse and divide them that much more.

[saltpoint]

13. Hi, murielm99. If Mitt wins in Michigan, it will have been three different

GOP winners -- McCain in NH, Huckabee in Iowa, and then Mitt in Michigan. And it really does seem to me that Mitt will win in his "home state."

Then the elbowing and knife-sharpening will get started on the Republican side in earnest.

[Truth2Tell]

14. The press has been saying

Romney in Michigan for awhile - the whole dad thing etc..

But my money is on McCain. I think the worm has turned. And McCain is starting to spend $$$ there.

[saltpoint]

15. McCain won it in 2000, but I wonder after his acceptance speech in NH if

people will think he's healthy.

He sounded wobbly and sketchy to me. At least Michigan Republicans have a few options, such as they are. The Democrat ballot is incomplete.

[Truth2Tell]

17. I don't think he's healthy either.

But I don't get to vote in the Michigan Republican primary. If the media ignores his health - which I'm guessing they will - I think he has a shot.

His health would ruin him in the general though, IMO.

[saltpoint]

19. Yes. Did he sound to you like he was about to just tip over and go kaboom

on the floor?

He just sounds like he's on ketamine.

[harmonicon]

18. I think McCain will win

He's very popular in Michigan, and Romney is not - he's just money. My brother who lives in rural northern Michigan says that Ron Paul is incredibly popular in his area. I don't know if he'll win, but I think he'll do quite well with the sort of republican voters from the state - that is, ones that hate Bush and really do want small government and fewer regulations.

What I don't know is how many otherwise Democratic voters will vote in the republican primary because of the Democratic party fiasco that's taken my vote away. That could radically alter things (I'm guessing in favor of McCain and Paul).

[saltpoint]

20. Interesting observations. I keep forgetting that it's an open primary and

that some Dems may join in for one or other of the Republicans.

[harmonicon]

25. and not just Dems - real life independents

Someone noted here the other day that they think McCain won in Michigan the last time he ran because Dem voters just voted in the Republican primary to stop Bush, but I think that only happened in small numbers, if at all. I think a lot of these people (for instance, there's a guy I know who's Kerry vote was the first time he hadn't voted Republican) really just vote for the candidate they like, regardless of party. I know that seems crazy to us, but it's true. I'm afraid that if whoever Michigan picks becomes the nominee, we're in trouble of losing the state in the general (which could mean losing overall), because so many independents want to back the man they voted for in the primary.

[lutefisk]

16. Senator Clinton

I don't really mean that. :hide: :yoiks: :patriot:

[TwilightGardener]

21. Ooops, did you say that out loud?

[951-Riverside]

22. Romney but...

Since American votes for presidents with clear mental illnesses I suspect Insane Mccain gets the nomination.

[saltpoint]

23. Agree that McCain seems to be in a good position, although I wonder if

he's in the "lead" by default. The rest of the field is miserably weak.

I look at McCain right now and think to myself, "Geez, this guy is not going to live through the night, let alone a grueling year-long presidential race."

[Eurobabe]

24. Old Man on the Mountiain (McCain)