Time for some cold, hard facts of life to intrude on some delusions beyond my own (I’ll get back to those shattered dreams in a while, and I’ll come back here):
– Cold, hard fact #1A (from Bruce): John McCain’s vote total in the 2000 South Carolina Republican Presidential primary – 238,000. John McCain’s vote total in the 2008 South Carolina Republican Presidential primary – 143,000 (with 3% of the precincts left to report)
– Cold, hard fact #1B (same source): Total number of votes cast in the 2000 South Carolina Republican Presidential primary – 556,000. Total number of votes cast in the 2008 South Carolina Republican Presidential primary (again, with 3% of the precincts left to report) – 431,000.
– Cold, hard fact #2 (from Jim Geraghty; a special for the gang at On the Borderline) – Mitt Romney’s non-Mormon vote total in Nevada – 12,524. Ron Paul’s vote total in Nevada – 6,077.
Somewhere in my feed reader, there’s a compilation of the total number of votes to Romney, McCain and Mike Huckabee. Let’s just say that the leader isn’t who the presstitutes would lead you to believe.
Steve – Suitably Flip is keeping a running total of the delegate count.
http://www.suitablyflip.com
When Vice President Thompson pledges his delegates to Romney, they will have a plurality of the delegates.
That is actually very interesting on point 1A.