BTW, great job on your predictions earlier!
Not so great on the percentages. Bombed on turnout projections. Raw totals for Romney, Paul and Santorum are pretty much in line. Almost 600,000 people! Higher than 2000.
Off by 6,000 on Romney and Paul totals. 14,000 on Santorum. But Newt, Newt
There’s an After-Action Crow report of the counties I’m prepping for tomorrow.
I think it’s also important now to bring up the fact that out of 155 counties, Romney has won exactly 5 that are traditionally Republican and were carried by McCain in 2008. 4 of those counties are in IA and 2 of them McCain barely held on to carry that Bush won by larger margins. The other county is Beaufort in SC. In every traditional Republican County, or even the Swing Counties that McCain lost, Romney has failed to carry any of them. And this is supposed to be the guy that does well with moderates/independents?
As for Newt, what’s impressive is the sheer number of conservatives that came out to vote. Yes, he got nearly 40% and people thought for him to get there Santorum would have to be down around 10%. But combined, the two of these men grabbed nearly 57%-60% of the vote. And they were doing this in the small blue counties and in lib places like Orangeburg. Newt did very well, but surprisingly so did Santorum and they did so without stepping on each other’s toes.