Once again the media is desparate to have Romney drop out of the race.  While Romney did not do quite as well as expected.  As of the writing of this Romney picked up six states.  McCain picked up nine and Huckabee has five.  (Interestingly Huckabee claims that it is a two man race - and he is in it).  Someone needs to tell him that Romney has won more states and has more delegates.   In fact, but for some quick thinking by McCain's people in West Virginia, Romney would have won nearly twice as many states on Super Tuesday than Huckabee.  Interestingly, only one of the media suggested that Huckabee ought to drop out.  In fact, a look as the numbers suggests that Huckabee would have a hard time winning anywhere outside the bible belt.

All night long I heard reports talk about what a disappointment the night was for Romney, even as the partial results from most of the Western states showed Romney with good leads.  When Romney did win a couple, the media would talk about how they were only small states.  (For some reason New Hampshire was not small when McCain won it). 

One bizarre thing was how differently the different states tabulate their delegates.  Guliani apparently convinced most of the Northeastern states to have winner take all primaries.  This helped McCain get a large number of delegates in a few states where McCain won by a small margin, while McCain was able to pick up delegates in numerous other states even where Romney or Huckabee won by substantial margins.  I do not really care if it is a winner take all or a proportional system.  However, I think everyone ought to play by the same rules.  


Finally, the message from Utah appears to be that we want change.  Both Romney and Obama - the two who apparently have a real desire to change the way things are done in Washington - came out big winners.