If Mr. Santorum loses the Pennsylvania primary badly — or if he should drop out before the primary takes place — the Republican National Committee could decide to ignore the delegate math and simply treat Mr. Romney as the nominee.
The primary takes place on March 19th; most expect Mr Sanford to get the most votes, though if he fails to take a majority he will find himself in a run-off.
Serious people are discussing how much the Super Bowl will affect the turnout in this year's mayoral election, as the primary takes place on Saturday, Feb. 6, the day before the game.
And Mr. de Blasio, who condemned the stop-and-frisk policing tactic during the primary, took pains on Wednesday to emphasize that as mayor he would focus on safety "morning, noon and night".
Google's Research Actualization Engineer Bob Vawter said that the primary take-away from this project is to say " The Google Web Toolkit can be used to create applications that, in the same code base, work well on an iPhone and a traditional desktop browser".
They pooh-pooh Clinton's victory, citing Obama who is ahead in the Texas caucus, where about one third of those who voted in the primary took part.
No matter what direction the primary takes, by some stroke of luck or divine intervention, it will be essential for Santorum to win his home state of Pennsylvania.
One of Clinton's most valuable campaign assets with voters in New Hampshire — her husband — is thousands of miles away in Nevada instead of working the coffee shops and union halls where the primary takes place Tuesday.
The pedestrian reason is that most of the primaries take place in the winter on a Tuesday, with breakfast and dinner needing to be prepared, children taken to school and music lessons, and the workday extending into the evening.
But as recently as 2004, overseas voting in the primaries took place in caucuses, where Democrats had to show up in person — difficult for such a far-flung group.
