Michigan folks, talk me down..

[DonCoquixote]

How can Mitt have won Detroit, somewhere he should have lost hard?

[Auntie Bush]

1. Cheating will do it.

[FrodosPet]

16. So will voting for Mittens, despite what DU wants you to do

I voted for the lesser of 4 evil because no matter what everyone says there is no such thing as a mortal lock in a presidential election.

[ecstatic]

27. How is he the lesser evil?

Nobody knows what Willard stands for!

[Auntie Bush]

28. My thoughts exactly!

The man is creepy.

[Chorophyll]

2. They don't want Santorum? Which is actually a good thing. nt

[Joe the Revelator]

3. Republicans voted for republicans.

[midnight]

4. I'm curious about the voting machines that were used?

[jimlup]

7. In Ann Arbor we use Diebolt optical scan machines...

I don't trust Diebolt but at least there is a paper trail. I don't think they would try it here.

[marmar]

15. So does Detroit.

[yourout]

5. Not sure if they are paper ballots and opscan or DRE but I am betting the Puke power brokers.....

are busily doing everything they can to get Mittens the win.

[Dawson Leery]

6. The GOP establishment has shown they will

rig elections to get their desired result.

[noamnety]

7. Well, keep in mind

he's winning among republicans in Detroit, which is hardly representative of the city's population.

[Stinky The Clown]

9. Not sure what you're saying. repubicans in Detroit voted for him.

Why is that bad news?

[marmar]

10. In a city that votes 97 percent Democratic in elections, who cares?

nt

[aaaaaa5a]

11. The Democratic vote total is only 9% It was 7% in 2008. There was no operation chaos.

In addition....


1) This is Romney's home state. A month ago this race wasn't even suppose to be competitive.


2) Romney is facing the weakest field perhaps in GOP primary history. He is having a dogfight with Rick Santorum? Seriously?


3) Romney has absurd money and organization benefits over his rivals. Remember, the Santorum campaign is so bad, they aren't even on the ballot in Virginia! Yet still his home state is this much of a struggle?


4) It looks like turnout for the Michigan primary will be down. This continues the lack of enthusiasm trend for the GOP. That's a bad sign for the GOP in November


5) Michigan will not be in play in November. Obama is up big.


I hope you feel better now.

[Dawson Leery]

17. Certainly. Santorum does better in Michigan against Obama than Romney.

[DonCoquixote]

23. ok

I just hope that this does translate into a November win.

[MadBadger]

12. Why should he have lost?

[jimlup]

22. Only because of the Santorum surge earlier in the month... but that has faded

Mittens has countered with his formidable establishment machine.

[Windy]

13. "detroit" or Wayne County....there is a LOT of money in Wayne County

The majority of voters live outside of Detroit. Cities like Livonia, Plymouth, Northville, etc have very affluent populations.

[FarLeftFist]

14. They can't in their conscious bring themselves to vote for someone as crazy as Santorum.

[FrodosPet]

21. This. NT.

eom

[XemaSab]

18. Urban republicans are normal people

It wouldn't surprise me if Romney won 75% in San Francisco.

It's in the rural areas that the teabaggers live.

[jimlup]

19. What you are seeing is the Reptilian estiblishment factor... the established Reptilians pushed hard

for Romney. He's the nominee I think and I actually I'm not sure that is really a loss for us. I mean just think about it. Mitten's is a gaff every other day and that's when he's being careful.

I think a wounded Romney comes into the convention and wins a weakened first ballot but still wins. Some of the hard cores aren't happy and that is a very good thing for us. Really this probably a better outcome. I was thinking about it last night as I considered perhaps crossing over to vote for Satan (Santorum - for the record I didn't). Romney is a good sacrificial lamb for this cycle. Really I think this one is made to order for us.

He's a terrible candidate. If we don't get mittens then we might face a last minute golden child who is appears on the scene as a savior for the conservative reptilian cause. A wounded Romney is better than a wild card.

We'll take a sure win for Obama thank you very much!

[Motown_Johnny]

20. not all of Wayne county is Detroit, all the Grosse Pointes are there too

and with only about 2% of the vote being (D)s crossing over I can see why he won here (I live in Wayne County / Detroit).

[boxman15]

24. Mitt is not a complete religious nutbag like Santorum

People who were for the bailout did not vote in the primary. That means so-called Reagan Democrats, who comprise the rest of the electorate around here, were the ones who showed up. They're turned off by Santorum's preachiness, so they vote Romney.

In the general election, Romney stands no chance in Hell against President Obama in the Detroit area.

[nobodyspecial]

25. What was the turnout?

How does that compare with 2008 or 2004?

[JI7]

26. Detroit is an area that should Easily go for Romney in a Republican Primary

Romney does better in less conservative areas.

[Liberal_in_LA]

29. why do we dems care who the repubs pick?