The Occasional Observer

As we all know, our winner-take-all delegate and electoral process can greatly skew results of the popular vote, but I found these statistics from Mitt in his CPAC concession speech interesting:

As of today, more than 4 million people have given me their vote for president, less than Senator McCain’s 4.7 million, but quite a statement nonetheless. 11 states have given me their nod, compared to his 13.

Shows you that at the popular level, the race was exceptionally tight. Importantly, it shows the dissatisfaction with McCain as a candidate, which he will have to work hard to change by November. Hopefully, suitable selection of VP candidate will be a good step in that direction.

On the other hand, it may all be a moot point as the number of Dem primary voters continues to flat out bury Repubs. We may be looking at a Dem prez + Dem congress = sky's the limit for taxes. In which case, hunker down and pray that 2012 gets here as fast as possible.