April 3 states (WI, MD, DC) results thread

[RogueBeaver]

Are the primary elections for the Recall and the Nov. elections also held today ?

Recall primaries are next month, November's are in August.

[RogueBeaver]

Moderates/Liberals make up 38% of the Wisconsin GOP electorate? Uh...wow.

Not just the GOP of Scott Walker, Paul Ryan and Sean Duffy but also the GOP of Tommy Thompson and Scott McCallum. But like you, I'm surprised at how many libs/mods there are.

[RogueBeaver]

By the way, why DC is so democratic?

In a word, demographics.

[RogueBeaver]

Santorum comparing himself to Reagan. What a joke.

[RogueBeaver]

Looks like Romney's margin is coming from the southeast- for that, among other things, Ryan should be the first person Romney thanks in his victory speech.

[RogueBeaver]

Ryan's warming up the crowd for Romney right now- and Romney's about to take the stage.

[RogueBeaver]

I wonder how much influence Ryan had in all of this. In his homeland, I suspect he is intensely admired among Pubs, and Mittens just romped in WI-01. Absent that, the numbers for WI as a whole might have been really tight.

Romney was ahead before said endorsement, and they had been publicly close for months. However Ryan's enthusiastic (by far the most enthusiastic of all Romney's conservative endorsees both politically and especially personally) endorsement probably sealed the deal. The race for Veep is close, and it's probably Ryan's for the asking for this and other reasons. Depends if he and Romney decide he's more valuable where he is.