For those of you wandering the streets of London looking for a restaurant offering you more than dry crackers (for £26) and want to know what's going on in America, here's what happened to the Republicans since Super Tuesday.
Mitt Romney suspended his campaign, and both he and President Bush tacitly acknowledged John McCain is the inevitable Republican nominee and that Mike Huckabee should drop out and get behind him. Governor Romney came dangerously close to announcing that anyone who didn't get behind the Republican front-runner was in league with the forces of terror, but then he didn't release his delegates. After this, Ron Paul announced that since there was no real possibility of a brokered convention with Romney out, he was scaling back his campaign and focusing more energy on his Texas congressional race, so the whole race is down to McCain with a giant lead over Huckabee.
After this, Mike Huckabee won in Louisiana and Kansas, and then the Washington State Republican Party announced McCain won their caucus and we should all take their word for it even if they didn't count like, every single ballot from like every single precinct, because that would take all night or something (and then Huckabee took them to court). He was still way behind, and this Tuesday was the so-called Potomac Primary with winner take all contests in Virginia, DC, and Maryland, and Huckabee got killed. Hopefully he can build some momentum in this weekend's primary in White Trash Hawaii before next Tuesday's primaries in Wisconsin and Washington... that's right, Washington has a primary like a week after their caucus, talk to them about it. (I only know like two people in Washington who could maybe explain to me why they do this, and I don't have contact info for either one.)
McCain is actually quite close to reaching a point where Romney or Huckabee's delegates would be enough to secure the nomination and end the nomination process, which creates interesting possibilities for the smoke-filled room.
A brief update on the Democrats: Barack Obama won in Virginia, DC, and Maryland and by a significant margin, which means for the first time he has the overall lead (not counting superdelegates he's been in the lead since the Iowa caucus). It's still extremely close and supposedly upcoming states are packed with the poorer, less well educated people who have thus far turned out for Hillary Clinton so things might swing back her way with Ohio and Texas voting in the beginning of March. The last Democratic events until then are a primary in Wisconsin and a caucus in Hawaii, both next Tuesday.
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