Yesterday Mitt Romney won the Republican party primary in Michigan proving two things: 1- It’s easy to win in a state where your daddy was once governor and 2 - the Republicans across the country aren’t all behind the same person. Senator John McCain won in New Hampshire and Mike Huckabee won Iowa.

With 97 percent of the electoral precincts reporting, Mr. Romney had 39 percent of the vote, compared with 30 percent for Mr. McCain and 16 percent for Mr. Huckabee. Ron Paul, the antiwar congressman from Texas, came in fourth with 6 percent of the vote.

The Democratic story is a little more complicated. Officially, Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary but her main rivals weren’t on the ballot, not Barack Obama nor John Edwards.

Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina withdrew their names at the request of the national Democratic Party, which penalized Michigan with the loss of its convention delegates because the early date of its primary violated party rules.
But state party leaders said they believed the Michigan delegates would be seated.

Get rid of the electoral college anyone?

4% of the vote went to Dennis Kucinich. 40% of registered Dems who voted yesterday were undecided and part of that %40 was 70% of African American voters who said they were uncommitted but really likely would have voted for Barack Obama.

Via / NYT