RandySF
RandySF's JournalLucas County (Toledo area) flipped from Romney to to Santorum.
He just might win it(?)
Nate Silver: Romney underperfoming EVERYWHERE
So far, Mitt Romney is under-performing his polls in most states that have reported results so far, while Rick Santorum is over-performing his -- possibly by a wide enough margin to swing Ohio, where Mr. Romney had appeared to have a slight advantage in the surveys but Mr. Santorum now leads in the vote count.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/live-coverage-super-tuesday/?src=twt&twt=fivethirtyeight#the-urban-rural-split-in-ohio
I'm calling OH for Willard.
He's racking up huge numbers in Lucas, Hamilton, Cuyahoga and Franklin Counties, and they've barely started reporting.
Two Murdoch journalists reportedly attempt suicide
wo senior journalists working for Rupert Murdoch's News International have apparently attempted suicide as pressure mounts at the scandal-hit publisher of the now-defunct News of the World.
The suicide attempts follow weeks of intense scrutiny of the role of The Sun, another Murdoch paper, in the phone-hacking scandal and police bribery case.
The man and the woman, who were reportedly involved in separate incidents, were rescued in time, a friend of one of them said, according to a report Tuesday on stuff.co.nz.
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/06/10594806-two-murdoch-journalists-reportedly-attempt-suicide-as-pressure-mounts
I predict a lot of sore feeling in the Republican Party.
They may be united against Obama later this year, but I bet there will be a lot of Republicans pissed off at Romney and his super pac.
Romney doing worse than expected in Vermont.
No votes have been counted yet, but CNN's exit poll in Vermont found that both Ron Paul and Rick Santorum were over the 20 percent threshold required to receive delegates there. (Our guess was that this would be true for Mr. Paul but not Mr. Santorum.)
If the exit poll results hold up, Mr. Romney would carry about 8 to 10 delegates out of the 17 that Vermont awards, versus 4 or 5 for Mr. Paul and about 4 for Mr. Santorum. Still, the exit poll sample size was especially small in Vermont, so we should watch carefully as actual results trickle in.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/live-coverage-super-tuesday/?src=twt&twt=fivethirtyeight#no-winner-take-all-for-romney-in-vermont
Exit Poll: GA, TN Republicans do not like Mormons.
In Tennessee, according to early exit polls, 74 percent of voters said they cared either somewhat or a great deal about a candidate's religion. That figure was also high, 69 percent, in Georgia.
Even by the standards of Southern states, that number is fairly high; it was 60 percent in South Carolina by comparison, for instance.
In Ohio, meanwhile, 62 percent of voters said the candidate's religious beliefs matter somewhat or a great deal, as compared with 56 percent in Michigan.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/live-coverage-super-tuesday/#more-27905
Early exit polls: Evangelicals turn out in big numbers
In Georgia, about two-thirds of voters are evangelical Christians, according to preliminary exit polling. The proportion bumps up to nearly three-quarters in Tennessee; it’s around half of all voters in Ohio.
Turnout among evangelicals across the three states is at least as big as it was in the 2008 primaries.
The evangelical Christian vote has been a trouble spot for Mitt Romney in several states, and helped fuel Rick Santorum’s win in Iowa and Newt Gingrich’s in South Carolina.
http://liveblog.washingtonpost.com/2012/03/06/super-tuesday-results/#liveblog-entry-363?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost
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