Romney scores narrow Super Tuesday win in Ohio

[L. Coyote]

Source: NBC

12:35 a.m. ET — Mitt Romney scored a narrow victory over Rick Santorum in the Ohio presidential primary following a hard-fought campaign that had been perceived as a turning point in the battle for the Republican presidential nomination. NBC projected he was the apparent winner in that state.

Both Romney and Santorum won several Super Tuesday caucuses and primaries, but none more prized than Romney's victory in Ohio. The former Massachusetts governor was able to ride a wave of momentum out of Michigan, where he also closely battled Santorum, to erase the former Pennsylvania senator's lead in Ohio over the past week.
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The trajectory of the Republican campaign hinged in large part on Ohio

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Romney wins this in the urban centers, where Obama will win big.

[Rhiannon12866]

1. Just saw this as a crawl on the screen on my NBC affiliate.

But one thing that we have to remember is that turnout was pretty poor today. ABC News showed a polling place in MA that looked completely deserted. I'm wondering if this will carry over to the general, and Republicans will stay home, since none of their candidates are particularly appealing.

[Monk06]

2. And the FReepers are on suicide watch.

1285 posts and counting. If they're this crazy in the primaries just wait til
November. They're eating each other alive. I can't see how they can pull out
a united campaign after the convention. They hate Obama but they hate each
other even more. The social cons are destroying the GOP as a viable national
party.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2855517/posts

[alp227]

4. see my post below, i wonder if any of them came up with a conspiracy of voting machine fraud yet?

[zinnisking]

7. I was shocked to see so many Gingrich supporters.

How could so family values voters support a hypocritical adulterer?

Is it possible that righties really aren't virtuous and moral?

[Odin2005]

9. RimJob purged all the ones that didn't like Newt.

[Monk06]

10. When Palin endorses the Grinch rather than fellow dominionist evangelical, Sanctimonius Santorum you

just know something weird is going on. The big joke is when all these baggers have to get up on stage at the close of the convention and kiss Mitt's ring then try to pretend they are united behind their candidate.

Even Rove is now saying it is such a cluster fuck that the Obama will win and the Dems will hold on to the Senate. I predict the Dems will increase their majority and the 2014 midterms will be a blood bath for the Repugs.

All thanks to dumb shits like Palin and the rest of the RW extremist wing. When they make condoms are an issue in a presidential election you know the have gone over the cliff. The hilarious part is that they don't know it yet.

[alp227]

3. Romney should've invested in Diebold...

Remember the 2004 voting controversies in Ohio?

How the GOP Wired Ohio's 2004 Vote Count for Bush to Win (Steven Rosenfield, Alternet)

"Ohio report recommends scrapping electronic voting" (Engadget)

"Company Connected to GOP and Romney Delivers Diebold Machines to Maryland Polls" (Wired.com)

All these articles were published during the 2008 election cycle.

In 2003, the CEO of Diebold also held a fundraiser for Bush!

I wonder if the freepers are claiming that Romney is using voting machines...

[Judi Lynn]

5. Women, working and single, rescue Romney in Ohio primary

Women, working and single, rescue Romney in Ohio primary
Mar 2012 06:10
Source: reuters // Reuters
By Ros Krasny

WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) - Mitt Romney has single women, working women, and arguably, Rush Limbaugh, to thank for his narrow win in the Ohio presidential primary, but that won't defuse the Republican Party's "woman problem" in November's general election.

Exit polling for Tuesday's Republican contest in Ohio, a national bellwether state, suggest that the rise of abortion and contraception as election issues, and a week of controversy surrounding right-wing talk show host Limbaugh, affected the election.

Romney won by 3 percentage points among women but by much larger margins among two groups in particular: working women and single women.

Santorum, a social conservative and devout Catholic, has put issues like abortion, birth control, religion's role in society and a woman's place in the workforce in the campaign spotlight as Republicans compete for their party's nomination to face Democratic President Barack Obama in November.

More:
http://www.trust.org/trustlaw/news/women-working-and-single-rescue-romney-in-ohio-primary

[JennyCait]

6. Spam deleted by OKNancy (MIR Team)

[Ruby the Liberal]

8. This is still playing out as anticipated - SC, GA, TN

Romney can't win the south.