Clusterfuck to the White House

Santorum has won in both Alabama and Mississippi.

Of course, since both states award delegates proportionally, that still means that Romney (who came in third in both states, just barely behind Gingrich) still got 21 delegates. Romney did win in Hawaii (which is also allocated proportionally) and American Samoa (which is actually non-binding), so it's not like he lost a lot in the way of a delegate lead.

Romney coming in third in both Alabama and Mississippi means that they really didn't buy his attempt at seeming Southern.

I KNOW. WHAT A SHOCK.

But it still was an extremely close race in both states. (In Alabama, Gingrich and Romney were about 1300 votes from one another in 2nd and 3rd place, and in Alabama, the difference between the two was less than 700 votes.)

And Ron Paul came in dead last in both states, with barely 5% of the vote in either. Which means he gets no delegates there.

Still, Santorum now has even less of a reason to listen to anyone telling him to drop out, and since Gingrich did come in 2nd place, ahead of Romney, it's unlikely that he's going to drop out either. So this shit will continue on....

The next primary is on March 20th (Illinois); although Puerto Rico's primary is two days earlier, I don't see any of the candidates traveling there to stump for votes.

After that, it doesn't "get exciting" until April 3rd (Maryland, D.C., and Wisconsin) and April 24th (Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island). So unless one of the top three is caught with a hooker before then, that's probably the earliest that one of them will drop out. But really, at this point, I think we're stuck with them until the convention.

Of course

So, the other third shift guy called out sick tonight, so instead of going in at 7 p.m., I am going in at 9 p.m.

This would normally give me two extra hours of sleep.

Except, that naturally, I cannot fall asleep.