Pawlenty drops out of race

Yee-haw.

 

Romney would be a much-tougher opponent for Obama than Perry or anyone else in the GOP field.

Romney has appeal in large parts of the Northeast, the Midwest and the West and can take states Obama won in 2008. The Southern Bubbas won't like him, but they'll hold their noses and vote for him if he's on the general ballot.

Perry doesn't have the same oomph outside of the South. There's a lot of Texas fatigue out there, even still, and Perry is more Texan than W in spades. It's doubtful that Perry will play in Ohio or Michigan or Pennsylvania, all states he will need to make the electoral math work. And if Gov. Goodhair keeps wanting to converse about ending Social Security, Florida goes poof for him too.

The same dynamic that would help Romney and hurt Perry in the general will work in the GOP primary as well. There are 37 states that weren't part of the Confederacy.

 

I agree with this. It's not like you get extra credit for really, really winning certain states.

 

I'm taking sign-ups for those who want to move to Canada in the event of a Bachmann win. For those who feel the same about Palin (if she ever stops this starved for attention bit while everyone else campaigns and officially gets in the race), I'm offering the same deal.

 

I want to move to Canada anyway.

 

Canada just takes anyone, you know. It's that easy.

 

Yeah. I heard you can get to third base with Canada on the first date.

 

Under the long underwear.

 

How can you say this? He's been re-elected twice in Texas.

 

I'm amazed at the less than furious fervor behind Obama in some areas of this board as compared to four years ago. And the number of people who have come out and admitted they were Republicans that I wouldn't have bet were. And here I am, a socially-conservative populist.

 

Perry benefited a lot in the last election by the straight party ticket, there were plenty of "die-hard" Republicans that didn't really like him, but were too lazy to vote for the "R's" individually.

 

I figured I would put on a Canadiens jersey and be very polite ... look just be on board, OK?