Endorsements

Pravda-by-the-Platte has come out today to advise any republicans who actually read that paper that Mitt Romney is the One True Paladin of the Republican Party. This is entirely predictable, as Romney is the most left-leaning of all the candidates to date with the exception of Jon Huntsman, who vanished like Ambrose Bierce ages ago.

Keep in mind that this paper also endorsed Dole and McCain in the primaries in the past, and turned vehemently against them in the general election. This is now proven methodology to get what they want (Clinton, Obama) and I expect no less in the future.

The paper also has a practice of endorsing both Republicans and Democrats in local elections and calling itself bipartisan. They do this by endorsing any Republican fortunate enough to be running unopposed, and every other Dem on the ballot, regardless of anything.

Not to worry, as this is the traditional behavior of the Republicans, to nominate the fellow who finished second to the previous nominee. This should be the last big chance the Republicans get. A big win this year is looking more and more likely even in the face of their record of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
This map may be pessimistic as the Illinois vote depends on the Dem machine in Chicago finding enough lost ballots to overcome the Republican vote in the rest of the state*, and if Gov Walker can overcome the union attempt to unseat him in Wisconsin, why should the whole state not come along in the general election? Washington State is blue because the state supreme court ruled that vote fraud is O.K. as long as the ballots are secret.

Still, they don't call it the Stupid Party for nothing.

*Don't laugh. It's how John Kennedy got elected.