mitt romney won the illinois primary in convincing fashion last night with 47% of the vote. that put him 12 points ahead of rick santorum. romney showing was a vast improvement over his performance in illinois four years ago. if you want to sound smart today, tell your friends romney won more than 171,000 more votes on tuesday, than he did in the 2008 illinois primary. romney placed second to john mccain in 2008, taking just over 28% of the vote and winning three delegates. again last night he won 47% of the vote. enough of the real news, let s huddle up around the water cooler to talk about mitt romney s stop at google s chicago offerses yesterday. romney has been accused of being a bit awkward personally. and this human interaction is not going to help that impression much. romney came up to a guy named nathan and congratulated him, brick tamlynn style on the size of his desk lava lamp. hey, how you doing. nathan, pleasure to meet you. that s a big lava lamp,
romney s economic plan, timid. parts of it virtually identical to obama s failed policy. timid won t create jobs and timid certainly won t defeat barack obama. but the ad is just that, a contrast, not a bash ad, and when should have been a big endorsement from new hampshire s favorite son, john mccain, fell a little bit flat yesterday. the two were jocular about iowa s romney showing. we forgot to congratulate him on his landslide victory last night. you would think we could get more than an eight-vote here in margin. landslide romney who comes to you tonight within an hour and a half sleep. fresh that have huge landslide victory in iowa, talk about a squeaker. talk about a squeaker. well, the martin and lewis routine was interesting, but they got surprisingly tempered applause in the first ral we mccain came out suggesting the campaign hadn t really managed to bring in the right group of
the first time this campaign season. in fact, this morning the ad gingrich promised arrived. romney s economic plan, timid. parts of it virtually identical to obama s failed policy. timid won t create jobs and timid certainly won t defeat barack obama. but the ad is just that, a contrast, not a bash ad, and when should have been a big endorsement from new hampshire s favorite son, john mccain, fell a little bit flat yesterday. the two were jocular about iowa s romney showing. we forgot to congratulate him on his landslide victory last night. you would think we could get more than an eight-vote here in margin. landslide romney who comes to you tonight within an hour and a half sleep. fresh that have huge landslide victory in iowa, talk about a squeaker. talk about a squeaker. well, the martin and lewis routine was interesting, but they got surprisingly tempered applause in the first ral we mccain came out suggesting the