Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has revived his flagging campaign with a trio of victories to upset frontrunner Mitt Romney's seemingly inevitable progress towards the party nomination.Santorum achieved a clean sweep of the states being contested - Colorado, Minnesota and the non-binding 'beauty contest' primary in Missouri. It was a disastrous night for Romney, not only because he lost states that only a few days ago he had expected to win but due to the scale of the defeat, coming in a humbling third in Minnesota.
Santorum achieved a clean sweep of the states being contested - Colorado, Minnesota and the non-binding 'beauty contest' primary in Missouri. It was a disastrous night for Romney, not only because he lost states that only a few days ago he had expected to win but due to the scale of the defeat, coming in a humbling third in Minnesota.
I lived in a precinct with a big university population, in Saint Paul MN, and was precinct chair for three election cycles, of course in the other party. Two of the three cycles we had maybe 25 people show up, but in 2004, with a presidential nomination up for grabs, it was ten times that, with lots of students showing up. Kerry took the state quite handily that year, but in my precinct, he was third, with Kucinich first, just beating Edwards, who if memory serves actually had dropped out of the race just hours before commencement of the caucuses that night. Kerry a distant third.
Students can really bias the caucus numbers, especially in a mostly rural country like Benton with a marginal concentration of students at its western extremity. Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
We need to get away from the primary system because it is what is driving the divisive political positioning. Right at the moment I favor a series of ranking elections--each one basically a non-partisan open primary using a ranking system. That way you can gradually move towards a single candidate...
