Wednesday Open Thread [2.1.12]
What’s Next?
Saturday, February 4–Nevada caucuses, and the Maine caucuses begin and last until February 11.
Tuesday, February 7–Minnesota, Missouri, and Colorado
Tuesday, February 28–Arizona
Wednesday, February 29–Michigan
It looks like all Romney territory to me. So Romney won convincingly last night, but did the Republican Party fare as well?
With 94% of the vote counted in Florida, there have been roughly 1,583,000 votes cast. In the 2008 Republican primary in Florida, roughly 1,950,000 votes were cast. There’s probably about 100,000 votes left to count tonight, but we can already see that despite a growing population, approximately 300,000 fewer Republicans voted tonight than four years ago.
So Republicans are so fired up to beat Obama, that they are not showing up to vote? If there is an enthusiasm gap, it favors the Democrats over the Republicans now.
In Oregon last night, Suzanne Bonamici (D) retained a House seat for the Democrats in the Oregon 1st. She won by 15 points over Rob Cornilles (R).
Rest in Peace Don Cornelius.
And the Markets are up over 1% with no other news. Might there be a little hope on Wall Street for Romney?
And the intrade.com market for Obama getting reelected is also up one percent.
Clearly correlation, in this case, implies causation.
DL makes WAPO list: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/the-fixs-best-state-based-political-blogs-extended-edition/2011/08/03/gIQAZva4rI_blog.html
Marla Blunt-Carter, who ran President Obama’s Delaware campaign and is former Wilmington council president Ted Blunt’s daughter, has replaced Elliot Jacobson as KWS’ senior advisor. She also has experience in Senator Biden’s office and the White House. This is a great hire for KWS given her vast experience and contacts. KWS may lose, but I doubt a person of Marla’s caliber would accept such a job unless she assumes KWS will be re-elected.
http://www.delawareinsurance.gov/contact.shtml
DL makes WAPO list…for like the 5th straight year. Great blogging DL bloggers & great commenting commenters.