His current national polling average is about 32% right now. If he wins all the winner take all states and gets only roughly 30% of the rest, he’s about 130 short. There aren’t enough super delegates to close that gO even if they all broke his way.

It is no longer good enough for Mitt to win. He has to win with majorities or else it’s a brokered convention.

Mitt Romney’s 1992 Democratic Primary vote for Paul Tsongas — a technocratic modernizer and reformer, but very much a Democrat — raised some Republican eyebrows last week.

What hasn’t been mentioned: Romney’s vote formally enrolled him in the Democratic Party.

Wow.

And here’s an image of him registering in 1976 as an independent, not in the party his own father ran for President in.

So, those of you that think we have to vote for this man because we have to “unify the party”—which party exactly are we unifying? How can we nominate the man whose health care plan is the number one conservative objection to Obama?

Just to win? When given a choice between a Democrat and a Crypto-Democrat, the voters are just going to go with the Democrat.

The ObamaRomneyCare campaign has put a bounty on further scandalizing Speaker Gingrich in a series of cheap scandals by offering a bounty of $1.6m for a dpcument dump. From mittromney.com:

Newt Gingrich’s Freddie Mac contract raises more questions than answers. His secrecy about his lobbying for Freddie Mac is troubling. No amount of bluster will hide the fact that Newt had his hand in Freddie Mac to the tune of $25,000 a month.

In other words, RomneyCare is offering to invite the same kind of forgeries that the previous liberal from Massachusettes to run for President, John Kerry, tried to foist on President Bush about his service record, but he’s only willing to spend a few weeks’ salary on it.  Zales would be disappointed. And his accusation of $25,000 is, according to his own view of income, is a rounding error to begin with. Why so upset now?

So, I’m wondering: where’s the bounty on Magic Underwear RomeyCare’s sex scandal. Is he really that squeaky clean? If so, won’t a $1.6m bounty invite someone to just make something up, as he’s trying to do with Speaker Gingrich? Obviously, RomneyCare went to great lengths to bring this campaign into the sewer in a failed attempt to avoid defeat in South Carolina. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

A lot of soul searching in the Republican party lately. And there should be.

First, full disclosure: I’m not a conservative. I’m a ticket-splitter. So, you all can take this with the appropriate number of grains of salt if you like. If you think it’s rough being a conservative now, or a liberal in 2002, you should try being neither. It’s been a rough life. (; Having said that, I have been involved in politics my whole life. I thought I’d come here and share some of the insights I gained from studying the results of this election.

Here’s how I see it. There are two problems confronting the Republican party right now. First, leadership. Second, a vision compatible with the post-2008 electorate. Both of these problems are not as difficult to fix as you might think. In fact, I would bet good money that if someone applied the approach I present here in an off-year state-level race in 2009, or in a Congressional race in 2010, it could move swing districts back to the red side.

My solutions in the full entry.

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