I suppose it may be borish to mention this, but looking down the local (regional?) mediocre newspaper of record yesterday on the page of “Super Tuesday” results, they listed the results for each state — Democratic results between Hillary Clinton and Republican results between John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee. I believe it was an AP snatch, but am not sure — it came from somewhere or other.<\/p>\n
The problem is the matter of Ron Paul. He would not be problematic if he came in fourth in every state, but in a handful of states, he surpassed one of the other candidates — a fact that made the curious result of seeing this tilted missing percentage greater than one of the others. So, the results… where Ron Paul should have been listed instead of one of the other yahoos, by the Rule of 3 criteria:
\nMontana
\n(caucuses) Percent of vote
\nRepublicans
\nMike Huckabee 14%
\nJohn McCain 22%
\nMitt Romney 38%
\nRon Paul 25%
\nNumber of delegates at stake
\nRepublicans 25<\/p>\n
North Dakota
\n(caucuses) Percent of vote
\nRepublicans
\nMike Huckabee 20%
\nJohn McCain 23%
\nMitt Romney 36%
\nRon Paul 21%
\nNumber of delegates at stake
\nRepublicans 23<\/p>\n
Utah
\nPercent of vote
\nRepublicans
\nMike Huckabee 2%
\nJohn McCain 6%
\nMitt Romney 89%
\nRon Paul 3%
\nNumber of delegates at stake
\nRepublicans 36If you want to tell me that this is a result of listing the candidates who have a realistic shot of being the White House, I just have to shake my head and take a closer look at the Republican nomination process as it stood on Tuesday. Also worth mentioning.:<\/p>\n
Minnesota
\n(caucuses) Percent of vote
\nRepublicans
\nMike Huckabee 20%
\nJohn McCain 22%
\nMitt Romney 42%
\nRon Paul 16%
\nNumber of delegates at stake
\nRepublicans 38<\/p>\n
Maybe I should shrug it off, seeing as how last week there was a huge story about the possibility of Ron Paul winning the Maine Caucuses — which, he did not come close to doing so, denting any claim for Respectibility and moving that benefit of the Doubt away from him.\u00c2\u00a0 You give him a shot, get burned, and just have to toss it aside.\u00c2\u00a0 The Ron Paulites will have to content themselves knowing they have a better presence on World of Warcraft<\/a>. And maybe he can make a good presence in Idaho?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I suppose it may be borish to mention this, but looking down the local (regional?) mediocre newspaper of record yesterday on the page of “Super Tuesday” results, they listed the results for each state — Democratic results between Hillary Clinton and Republican results between John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee. I believe it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ron-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4075,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/4075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}