Thursday, January 17, 2008

The Michigan Primary

Well Mitt finally won one. Actually that’s not really true since he also came out on top in the Wyoming caucuses which everyone sort of ignored. The win gives Romney the current lead in delegates, for whatever that means, with 42, Huckabee is second with 32 followed by McCain with 13.

The next biggie for the Republicans is South Carolina where folks go to the polls on Saturday January 19th. The current polls show John McCain with a slight lead over Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney is third with Fred Thompson not far behind. If McCain or Romney win South Carolina I think the Republican campaign will have a legitimate front runner, but if either Huckabee or Thompson win, things will remain muddled until Florida on January 29th.

On the Democrat side, the Michigan Primary was basically a no contest due to the Party’s discipline of Michigan for moving up its primary. For what it’s worth, Hillary got the majority of the votes there.

The next biggies for the Democrats are Nevada, also on January 19th, and then South Carolina on January 26th.

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