According to the MSM, and most people who blindly follow their reports, Mitt Romney won the Michigan primary last night by about 3 points, 41 to 38. However, like the Electoral College, the point of the contest is not to win the popular vote (Gore – 2000) but to win more delegates per state based on the apportionment of those delegates. Michigan’s primary delegate system allows for a set number...

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Michigan Republicans had a decision to make today that will resound in the party’s race for president. Romney defeated Santorum 42% to 37% as projected by MSNBC at 10:15 PM. On one hand, they had a candidate, Mitt Romney, who appeared out of touch with middle-class voters, constantly placing a “silver foot” in his mouth regarding his affluent life style. The most recent examples of his difficulty in connecting...

Another centrist bites the dust. Olympia Snowe is retiring. What happened to the big tent of the Republican Party? There was a time when New England Republican was a badge of honor indicating a pragmatic approach to politics; generally conservative from a fiscal standpoint and moderate socially. Indeed, the Republicans were the default choice throughout New England for much of the last century and a half....

She is impossible to miss when she comes into the University of Delaware Library. At 6-foot-6 Elena Dell Donne is an imposing presence and by many lights the greatest women’s college basketball player in the U.S. today. She is also, thanks to her work ethic, the NCAA women’s basketball 2012 Academic All-America of the Year. Delle Donne, who carries a 3.6 grade-point average in early-childhood education...

Here’s a recent quote from Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum: “I don’t believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.” The former Pennsylvania senator than elaborated on this statement by artfully trying to mix two very different concepts—freedom of religious belief, and the relationship of church to state. His artfulness aside, they are very...

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WASHINGTON – Poor Mitt, he’s getting hit from all sides. Talking Points Memo has the robo call from a man with a gruff sounding voice meant to sound like a working man, talking about Democrats needing to get out to vote for Rick Santorum. The tag line is “this call was paid for by the Santorum for president committee.” Michigan Democratic strategist Joe DiSano has taken it upon himself...

Not withstanding the political contention over the Keystone pipeline, and over whether or not the nation should be doing more drilling for oil and gas, it may be that energy independence for America is right around the corner. The current spike in oil and gas prices is due to the geo-political situation and speculative activities, and would not be improved by any immediate change in government policy. An article...

A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll suggests that President Barack Obama’s poll numbers have risen due to a lot of work — a lot of work Republicans running for their party’s nomination have done on their own and their party’s image. With polls like this, Team Obama must be praying for a long, drawn out, down to the wire convention fight: A new POLITICO/George...

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Life got you down, Bunky? Afraid that our Islamofascist president will send you to a reeducation camp? That Rick Santorum will be sitting in your marital bed when it’s time to turn in tonight? That the price of gasoline will continue going through the roof? Well, we feel your pain. But don’t fret because you can join us for the 1st Annual & Probably Last Moderate Voice Baker’s Dozen...

Any guesses as to the outcome ? I’d say maybe 95% in favor of the reforms to limit the power of the great and glorious leader who can do anything he wants it’s fine with me.

Perhaps former Senator Rick Santorum’s increasingly over the top comments (the latest is that he said JFK’s 1960 speech about separation of church and state made him want to puke) have started to catch up with him. A new Gallup tracking poll shows Romney has now inched ahead of the latest anti-Romney frontrunner, Santorum: Gallup’s tracking poll shows GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney overtaking...

Seven more Americans were wounded in Afghanistan today. Two high ranking American officers were killed yesterday in a government ministry that should have been the safest place in the country — and the killer got away. Angry local crowds are filling the streets demanding that we get out of their country and out of their lives, unquestionably the popular sentiment of most Afghans. Enough already with Afghanistan....

John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has a classic column today where she weaves together some quotes Republican Party’ seeming transformation with some keen observations. Her main one is correct: today’s Republican Party seems to be racing backwards as its candidates hurl out red meat to a crowd that increasingly wants redder, rawer meat, almost bleeding...

Watch Clinton on PBS. See more from American Experience. WASHINGTON – The rise once again of religious conservatives in the 2012 primary season is a perfect setting for “Clinton,” the PBS American Experience documentary of William Jefferson Clinton’s presidency. Today’s religious conservatives aren’t the same as they were in the Clinton era, but it’s a reminder of how...

Things have not been going well for Mitt Romney. His speech in Detroit fell flat. And, this week, he made yet another gaffe. On the subject of the economy, he diverged radically from Republican doctrine. Cutting spending, he said, was a simplistic solution to America’s problems: If you just cut, if all you’re thinking about doing is cutting spending, as you cut spending you’ll slow down the economy.”...

WASHINGTON – The Washington Post had an amusing poll on Rick Santorum and women on Friday. I hope Republican primary voters buy into it. But in fact, Santorum has grown more popular among women while talking about his opposition to abortion, his disapproval of birth control and his view that the federal government shouldn’t pay for prenatal screenings. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows not...

No matter how former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney does in his goal of getting the Republican Presidential nomination, today will go down as a day that political operatives will likely talk about for some time due to the lessons it taught to candidates. LESSON ONE: Be sure not to have your candidate deliver a speech with lots of media attention in a stadium that has lots of empty seats in camera range. LESSON...