The GOP contest so far is odd. And the arrow points to Mitt Romney. Six weird facts.

Has anyone every heard of these 6 facts occurring in just the first 9 contests of a primary fight?


1)Santorum is declared the winner in Iowa. But not until weeks after the caucus is over. The caucus vote was relatively small and Iowa certainly is use to counting and proper vote reporting procedures. Yet the process was terribly slow, in wake of a huge potential upset.

This was inexcusable and denied Santorum a bump coming out of Iowa. This gave Romney an early edge. Where would the Romney campaign be if the storyline immediately out of Iowa was that Romney had lost.





2) Romney is declared the winner of Maine even though only 83-84% of caucus votes were counted. The margin between him and Paul is only 194 votes. Washington county, which is a place Ron Paul had strength, apparently won't be counted at all. To my knowledge, Paul has refused to concede. And there is talk that Washington county was unaware that their votes would not count when voting was delayed due to a snow storm.

The weather delay is of itself odd because it was reportedly only 3-4 inches of snow. Other activities including "The Girl Scouts" were not cancelled. And well.... THIS IS NORTHERN MAINE! SHOULDN'T THEY BE USE TO SNOW!





3) This morning Santorum essentially accused the Romney campaign of "stacking" the audience to produce a bogus straw poll result from CPAC. This is nothing new for a straw poll. But it has been reported that there was an effort made among organizers this year to stop Ron Paul voters from stacking the results. Ron Paul usually wins the CPAC vote. Were Paul voters stopped while Romney voters were allowed to enter?




4) Turnout is disastrously lower than in 2008 for the GOP across the board. In some places, the discrepancy is so large (and strange) that if it were a Democratic primary, this message board would be on fire with foul play accusations.





5) Does anyone find it strange that in Florida, in every county Romney won, turnout was down? And in ever county Gingrich won, turnout was up? I wish we had the statistical odds on that happening?

As anyone ever heard of that occurring in any other primary? Especially given, that Romney won in a blowout.

When was the last time a major primary was won where one candidate carried every county were voter turnout was down. And the second place finisher won every county where turnout was up?




6) Every state Romney has won has a seen a dramatic decline in voter turnout. In the only states to produce an increase in voter turnout, the winners were Santorum (Iowa, declared about a week later) and Gingrich (South Carolina). Yet Romney is the dominate front runner?


I'm just sayin'