Well, Santorum made it closer than I thought, but as I suspected Romney wins. I think Romney will do even better in NH, but not a LOT better. Ron Paul will probably be gone by or right after Super Tuesday. The only question that remains is will he mount a disgruntled independent challenge, effectively ensuring an Obama victory in the General Election or will he simply take his ball and go home?
Bachmann will probably announce that she's out this week. Maybe even today.
Huntsman is the wild card in NH. Did his strategy pay off?
None of this matters much anyway, since it's Romney's turn. He'll be the nominee. And the general election will be one of the closest in history.
Obama's problem is obvious. The highly motivated youth vote that propelled him to victory in 2008 are all pretty much disgusted with him. Voter apathy on the Democrat side is going to make this election very close. I still say 50/50 shot -at best- for Obama....the only way that improves between now and November is if we get some fairly dramatic GOOD NEWS about the economy between now and then. With home prices still going down, that seems unlikely.