I’m looking at the county by county breakdown of the Missouri numbers here. And there are no results in from either Kansas City or St. Louis. I’d figure those have to be better for Mitt than most of the rest of the state. But but at the moment, with 23% of precincts reporting, Santorum is up over Romney by over 27%. So they’re going to have to be radically different or Mitt’s toast.
The word coming from the Mitt campaign is that Missouri doesn’t really matter because there are no delegates there and they didn’t commit time or money. The problem, though, is that Santorum doesn’t really have any time or money to commit there either. And if you’re the frontrunner, the presumed nominee, you get clobbered in a swing state just because you didn’t aggressively campaign there? That’s a very, very low standard. Santorum is clearly leaning hard on evangelicals. And really this isn’t about Santorum. It’s about Romney. Absent crushing spending and a week or so to focus on a single state, Romney seems to have a really rough time. That’s bad, especially in the Midwest where a Republican candidate has to run strong. And especially when he’s faltering in national polls versus President Obama.
Make that 2 out of 2 so far for Rick Santorum. Missouri and Minnesota, with Colorado still to be decided.
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Santorum takes all three of Tuesday night’s contests.
The coup de grace to Mitt Romney’s very bad night: He finished third in Minnesota.
Picking through the shards from last night’s Mitt crash, another data point leaps out: He didn’t win a single county in Minnesota.
As I mentioned last night, Mitt didn’t win any counties in Missouri either.
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