Another Election Night

And while the primaries really didn't matter, as Romney is pretty much it now, but there were other significant results, with Lugar getting destroyed in the India primary, Tom Barret earning a rematch against Scott Walker after the Democratic primary for the Wisconsin Recall, and the citizens of North Carolina voting to enshrine hatred and bigotry into their constitution.


I was amused by Obama's performance against a federal inmate in the West Virginia primary:

With all his rivals except Rep. Ron Paul now out of the race, Mitt Romney easily won the Indiana, North Carolina, and West Virginia primaries, giving him an estimated 911 of the 1,144 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination. But plenty of GOP voters still saw fit to register their preference for a different candidate: Romney got 65 percent of the vote in Indiana, 66 percent in North Carolina, and 69 percent in West Virginia. By comparison, the 2008 nominee, John McCain, got 70 percent or more in every primary once his last major rival, Mike Huckabee, quit the race. But the protest-vote story of the night was on the other side of the aisle. In West Virginia, Obama was pulling just 62 percent of the vote while Keith Russell Judd, an inmate at a federal prison in Texas who somehow got his name on the primary ballot, was drawing 38 percent.

I'm not sure what it means, though I'm sure that Obama's political operatives will be dropping a hundred grand or so on polling to figure it all out.