Primary Housekeeping

Yesterday, Ron Paul announced that he would no longer be actively seeking the Republican nomination. This just means that he won't be spending any money, rather than actually suspending his campaign. Not that either of these designations have stopped his followers. They have vowed to continue to vote and push for Uncle Ron until the convention. This really isn't any different from those folks still pushing Mr. Santorum or Newt, but the Ronulans feel the need to make a show of it.

Anyway, there are two primaries today, but only one will have delegates assigned as a result. Nebraska has a non-binding Presidential preference poll while Oregon ends it's primary-by-mail. Oregon actually does all it's national elections by mail and it designates a "primary day" by which all ballots must be recieved by the ballot station. If the post office lost yours in the mail and it is delivered the next day, too bad. The primary is proportional as long as the candidate gets at least 3.5% of the vote so I would expect to see some sort of four-way split of it's 25 available delegates. Oregon won't announce anything until 8 PM PDT (11 PM EDT) by which point I will be in bed.

Not that any of this really matters. Mr. Romney is the only man left standing and he should win the lion's share. This is just another pit stop on the road to official nominee, which he should hit with the Texas primary on May 29. If some glitch occurs and he doesn't hit 1144 by that point, the June 5th primaries of California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota would most certainly put him over the top.