Tuesday, February 7, 2012

What If Santorum Wins Big Tonight?

It might be a big night for Rick Santorum or it might be a big bust - who knows!?

Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota are all hosting election events tonight; no delegates on the table but lots of bragging rights.

Some links for the wait:

Google Politics has the maps and results - you can toggle between states on the upper right.

Red State has a Live Coverage event going on.

Allahpundit:

No delegates at stake tonight, but this is probably Santorum’s last chance to breeze past Newt as the race’s designated Not Romney. Read Ed’s post on the latest PPP numbers if you missed it this morning: He’s up by 13 points in Missouri (where Gingrich isn’t on the ballot) and by nine in Minnesota. If he wins both easily, then he gets a bunch of positive media coverage this week and maybe a few more big-name conservative endorsements, which in turn could mean enough movement in the polls to put him on at least an equal footing with Gingrich. Once that happens, the pressure will shift to Newt to explain why he should stay in and divide the conservative vote on the strength of having won one state while Santorum should drop out after having won three. Is that enough to get Gingrich to quit? Why … no, but it’ll make an increasingly dull primary interesting again until Super Tuesday.

The Washington Post also has live coverage and updates.

USA Today is live-blogging.

Predictions?

Added:

Why are they still voting for Cain, Huntsman, etc.?

Protest votes?  Absentee votes?

2 comments:

Sarah said...

He did! I can get behind him if he can really win the nom... I just never saw it happening.

Andy said...

Santorum is my pick of the remaining candidates.

The kiss of death to any candidate...

I'm glad the conservative voters in conservative States made a statement. Perhaps it will cause the powers that be to wise up.

I doubt it. But, one can hope.