[1]Byran, Hot Air [2], states the obvious:
Two primary wins, two seconds. No one else has been as broadly competitive so far. He has the most delegates and the most money in the bank, and he’s back to campaigning in South Carolina for Saturday’s primary. He’s in a statistical tie for second there. With four primary contests and three different winners, there isn’t a solid front-funner in the GOP but there is a front-runner for now, and that’s Mitt Romney.
As to Bryan’s question:
Am I the only one breathing a sigh of relief that the front-runner coming out of Michigan isn’t McCain or Huckabee?
Byran, you are not alone.
Note, I don’t like the idea of open primaries. I think that I have constitutional right as a republican to select an elector without any non-republcan voting in my primary. It is the right of free association.
In particular I don’t like Michigan’s open primary. John McCain imported Joe Lieberman to campaign for democrats and independent to vote for McCain. Are we as republicans somehow supposed to select our nominee based on the votes of democrats?