Nate Silver breaks down Super Tuesday:

If you were expecting the kind of dominant candidate who could win North Dakota and Tennessee despite once having governed as a moderate in Massachusetts, you will have been disappointed in Mr. Romney. You would also have been paying very little attention to national politics for the past year. Dominant candidates do not trail people like Herman Cain and Donald Trump in the polls...

If instead you were expecting the kind of candidate who is very likely to win the Republican nomination despite losing North Dakota and Tennessee, you would have found your man.

North Carolina is not Tennessee, but if we'd voted yesterday I'd guess Santorum would have done better here than he did in Massachusetts or Idaho, and also assume a lot of his potential supporters will turn out to vote for the awful Amendment 1 even if he washes out by early May, so the campaign against the amendment had better stay sharp.

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I propose that we start a fund to send Guarino, bubba, and poli to Oklahoma. Last night's victory for Rick Santorum, combined with the "Reddest of Red States" drubbing of Obama in 2008 leads me to believe that Oklahoma is a Conservative's Shangri-La. I just think they'd be happy out there, and I go out of my way to make people happy, especially those who are mad. While liberals, and perhaps even Moderates, will always have Boulder, Burlington, Chapel Hill, Telluride, Berkeley, Eugene, Santa Fe, Austin, etc. etc. etc., conservatives will always have Tulsa, Edmond, Muskogee, Jenks, Sulphur, and Wilburton - all in Oklahoma. Granted, the Ozarks aren't nearly as impressive or as nice as North Carolina's High Country, but hey, you're close enough to the Rockies and places like Boone and Asheville are dens of sin. As for the absence of beaches, meh, all you're missing is a bunch of women walking around and tanning in bathing suits, and that's bad and wrong.