It’s Election Day in Michigan.  God save the Republic!

The candidates for the Republican Presidential nomination are competing for the votes of Michiganians (Michiganders? Michiganites? All seem to be acceptable, apparently…) today as former Massachusetts Governor and Michigan native Mitt Romney fights for political survival after his Iowa/New Hampshire slingshot strategy flopped.  At the same time, resurgent Arizona Senator John McCain is looking to deliver what may be the coup de grace to Romney’s Presidential aspirations.  Recent polling suggested that the race is incredibly close, with the RCP Average putting Romney up by 2.7%.  A win for Governor Romney will right his political ship of state and put him on good course for Super Tuesday, February 5th. 

 Were Mr. Romney commenting on this post, he would note that he has more delegates committed to him than any other candidate.  He probably would not note that Iowa’s delegates are technically unpledged until their state convention, and that Wyoming’s delegates are not bound to vote for him, even though he won the caucus there on January 5th.  In terms of votes in the bag at the Republican National Convention, as of right now, 7 New Hampshire delegates would vote for McCain and 4 NH delegates would vote for Romney.  30 delegates are up for grabs in Michigan.

It will be a night of results here at TER, as we report the results from the 32nd Senate District election between Rob Kane and Kenny Curran as well as the Michigan results.  As we have them, so will you.