Mitt Romeny won the Michigan Republican primary despite a desperate last minute bid by Rick Santorum who urged Democrats to turn out and vote against Romney. I'm not sure that was such a smart move.
Elisabeth Steegman, 44, of Sterling Heights also voted for Santorum to help Obama.
“My father is probably rolling over in his grave,” Steegman said. Her father, she said, was a union steward at the General Motors Tech Center who made sure his children voted Democratic.
“It’s one way to get a vote for the person you want to win. It’s a little stinky,” she admitted, but worth it.
Several solidly Democratic cities, which gave President Barack Obama big margins of victory in 2008, such as Ferndale, Melvindale and Belleville, gave Santorum noticeable margins of victory over Romney.
If Rick Santorum can win the Republican presidential nomination he will give Democrats their best shot at getting Barack Obama re-elected. Michigan Democrats voting in the Republican primary said so yesterday with their votes. I tend to agree.
Pundits have been billing the Michigan primary as the make or break race for Mitt Romney, it being one of his home states and all. In reality it just broke Rick Santorum. As Republicans ponder their choices in the upcoming primary battles it will be difficult to overlook Santorum's last minute Democrat strategy. It depended so heavily on a perception that Santorum is the weaker candidate. Why else would a Democrat vote for him?
There is now a second-place aura about Santorum that will badly hurt his chances in the upcoming Republican primaries, and it might even have been much worse had Michigan Democrats given him the victory. The number one goal for so many Republican voters is defeating Barack Obama in November. Michigan Democrats have just told us who they think is best equipped to do it, and it's not Santorum.
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