In case you’ve been under a rock in the past few hours, Romney won the Michigan primary (Romney 39, McCain 30, Huck 17), thereby causing punditry in the mainstream media and online to shift into spin mode…or ignore their pre-primary predictions…to dance around predictions of a close race / possible McCain victory.
The folks over at Daily Kos are ecstatic over the Romney win and continuing pachydermic chaos, even if exit polling suggests that Kos’ call for Dems to cross party lines to support Romney may have had little effect. (Only a tiny portion of GOP primary participants reported to be Dems, although I imagine the Kossack army would be more inclined to misrepresent their affiliation in any such poll.)
I did, by the way, catch bits and pieces of the Dems’ debate, being held in Las Vegas as Michigan votes were being tallied. Unfortunately, since I had been up since 4am due to an early morning flight, much of the content was lost on me, because I kept drifting off. However, cutting the invite list down to three did help immensely with making the whole affair seem less rushed.
(Sorry Kucinich…but you aren’t a viable candidate. At this point in the campaign, that much is clear, and MSNBC was probably right in withholding its invitation.)