Report: Romney’s Iowa win may be due to a typo; Update: Romney actually wins by wider margin?
posted at 10:00 pm on January 5, 2012 by Allahpundit
This is the ultimate story for Romney-haters, isn’t it? Flipping 20 votes from Mitt to Santorum changes nothing on the ground, from the number of delegates they’ll get to the harsh reality of the polls in New Hampshire and South Carolina. Just doesn’t matter at all — unless you’re so anti-Mitt that the thought of seeing a win yanked from his grasp like candy from a baby fills your heart with a sour, schadenfreudean glee. Then it matters a lot.
On the other hand, if you’re superstitious about the fact that no Republican’s won both Iowa and New Hampshire in a contested campaign since Gerald Ford, then this actually makes things nice and simple for Mitt in NH. He’s about to blow out the Iowa winner by 20 points! Exit quotation: “‘A win is a win,’ one aide kept repeating to nobody in particular.” Click the image to watch.
Update: NYT stats guru Nate Silver: “The story on Romney getting extra votes as a result of a typo looks credible IMO. Romney did very badly in other precincts in that county.”
Update: Go figure. From Johnny Dollar:
Icymi, Santorum told Greta a few min ago that a 21 vote undercount cancelled out his 20 vote undercount so Mitt ends up winning by 9 votes.
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Now there’s a dusty old name…I haven’t seen that sketch for at least ten years. Still remember it was funny!
MelonCollie on March 16, 2013 at 7:35 AM
Cheers:)
There is some amazing irony in your commentary – someone who sounds remarkably like a spoiled child calling me “juvenile” and “deliberately obtuse” for not being able to make sense of your delusional fantasies. I’ll have to leave it to others to make sense of your blatherings – which begin with the false premise- that the narcissistic Marxist grifter Obama and Romney are like ideological fraternal twins. It then wanders off into something I can’t comprehend. I gather it has something to do with being pissed off that Sarah Palin didn’t run as a third party Tea Party candidate, and thus being left with no choice but to stomp your foot, pick up your ball, and stay home? Or maybe you had Ron Paul in mind? Who the hell knows. I’m not going to waste any more time trying to make sense of your nonsensical ‘analysis’.
Buy Danish on March 16, 2013 at 8:37 AM
Romney did not rise to the occasion in the election, so why expect him to do so here?
Sherman1864 on March 16, 2013 at 11:40 AM
He lost by 3%, not a blow out, but a loss is a loss. He is a good and accomplished man who would have been a far better president than Obama who had no real accomplishments before his political life began. Romney isn’t a conservative and maybe that is why he lost but he is a respectable and humble man.
Dollayo on March 17, 2013 at 2:05 AM
He should be sorry he lost because he passed on the opportunity to unseat the Liar of Benghazi (oh, yes, where is that report now? What has the admnistration discovered?).
In a sense, this lack of political judgment disqualified him. We should have known not to nominate a person unable to beat McCain.
virgo on March 17, 2013 at 3:55 PM
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