In Illinois, Santorum’s Chance at Nomination Is Slipping Away (Rick's last stand)

New York Times ^ | 03/20/2012 | Nate Silver

[AmericanInTokyo]

About exactly as many keys as on an English language PC keyboard, However, each small key has a small Japanese character (along with the ABC alphabet letter, slight below and to the right of it to be exact), which is a phonetic sound. Your word processing must be in the Japanese language mode rather than English (and easy setting by one of the keys). Combining the phonetics, for example "bei"　米, with "koku"　国, you get "beikoku"　米国, which is Japanese for "America"--then with a drop down dialogue box with tens if not hundreds of Chinese character combinations to choose from (you have to be able to read these approximate 2000 "kanji" to begin with), you make you selection and enter the appropriate word. It actually can be fast when you get good at it.

[AmericanInTokyo]

There is historic precedent for this. John McCain most recently comes to mind. BUT, the “STUPID PARTY” apparently wants to throw another election and lose this one as well, so what can you say. Oh well....see you in the camps.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Thanks!

[sarge83]

A liberal is a liberal is a liberal. The GOP liberals would rather another liberal obama win than any conservative seeing the light of day. As with all liberals its about the power, control and their time at the feeding trough of public $$$.

As for the Vichy/liberal/moderates and it’s all about the Party boys, Sam Adams best summed it up when he said,” If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands that which feed you. May your chain be set lightly upon you and posterity forget ye were our countrymen.”

[Col Freeper]

Vet the Media:

[so_real]

If indeed "Santorum’s Chance at Nomination Is Slipping Away", then by corollary Gingrich's and Paul's chances have already slipped away. Are we truly ready to concede defeat to our republican overlords? I won't vote for Romney. And if even 10% of the republicans feel as I do (perhaps an under-estimation) Romney will lose this election by a slim margin as Kerry did to Bush and McCain did to Obama. It is time to prepare your contingency plans to survive a second Obama term ...

[USS Alaska]

How do Japanese keyboards work? Are there 10,000 keys? Seriously 8-)

Little people with loads of tiny pens, I said pens not with an i.

[Kazan]

The Democrats would love to have Santorum win

So, you'd rather see Romney. Why hide that fact any longer? Come out of the closet.

[newzjunkey]

It's fair game. Santorum is no political babe in the woods.

If Mitt's "I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I will fix it," can be exploited against him using the first part--and it was--then Santorum's “I don’t care what the unemployment rate’s going to be. Doesn’t matter to me,” can as well.

Since Santorum attacked Newt for what he might possibly say were he to become president, I've no sympathy for him.