The night of the undead

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“I don’t think there was a single poll that had me
anywhere close to winning Mississippi,” said Rick
Santorum.

He’s right, and yet Santorum won both southern
primaries last night. Even though Mitt Romney changed his
accent and his diet.

“I like grits and strange things are happening to me,”
said Romney.

Actually, it may have been the first recorded case of
grit intoxication.

“I got started right this morning with a biscuit and
some cheesy grits,” said Romney.

In fact, both Romney and Gingrich seemed to think that
winning primaries in the South is about convincing voters
you eat like them.

“Cheese, with gravy,” Gingrich went on.

Gingrich even displayed an amazing grasp of the
toppings. But the food fight went to Rick Santorum, whose
moral message was just what evangelicals wanted to hear.
As one of my colleagues quipped, it was false grit versus
true grit.

So here we are again, the GOP primary process is still
having trouble doing what primaries are supposed to do,
get the losers to go away.

And it’s crazy because this is the first campaign since
the Supreme Court’s corporate personhood decision, the
first election process bathed in unlimited SuperPAC money,
$34 million of it going to Mitt Romney, more than all the
others, and what has it got him?

Maybe CBS political Director John Dickerson can tell
us:

“The delegate math which determines the nominee in the
end ended up going to Mitt Romney.”

Oh yeah, delegates. He’s still got a majority of the
delegates. He even got a majority Tuesday night. But
somehow, in a campaign where no one drops out, we forget
that.

So off to Illinois…and get ready. My sources say the
candidates intend to send an unmistakable message about
their love of bratwurst.

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