What's amazing about Romney's 8 vote victory margin over Santorum is that there were 58 people who voted for Herman Freakin' Cain. FIFTY EIGHT PEOPLE.
I think, if possible, they should find out who these people were, round them up, and shoot them.
Why? Because voting for Herman Cain is like flushing your vote down the toilet. Not in the same sense as voting for Michelle Bachmann. Voting for Bachmann may metaphorically be a way of flushing one's vote down the toilet, but at least she is an active, and technically legitimate candidate. Herman Cain, on the other hand, is neither. He long ago officially suspended his campaign, and has yet to reactivate it.
What is more maddening is that the people who voted for Cain were more likely to vote for Santorum than Romney. Out of the 58 Cain holdouts, I'd expect the breakdown to be such:
Romney-6
Paul-2
Santorum-15
Perry-4
Gingrich-20
Bachmann-11
Cain and Gingrich were always chummy, and after Cain dropped out, Gingrich's surge began to crystallize. Cain was also the anti-Romney candidate for a while, so Mitt wouldn't have gotten much out of those 58. Perry was long viewed as responsible for leaking the damaging extramarital affairs about Cain, and Cain supporters knew that. Santorum's surge would have probably netted him a bigger chunk of Cain's supporters, but, to be conservative about it, Gingrich would still pocket more. Adding up this fair hypothetical tally, Santorum ends up beating Romney by 1 vote.
What's even more sad is that only 38 people voted for Buddy Roemer. Poor Buddy got beaten by an inactive candidate. Surprisingly, Gary Johnson either wasn't on the ballot or didn't get any votes.
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