A couple of things strike me as we have just gotten past the South Carolina primary and are heading toward Florida and Super Tuesday:

• All of the Republican candidates have hardline antis. That is, there are folks who say, "I'll never vote for . . ." And these are Republicans, not Democrats. Mitt Romney, for instance, will never the get votes of some evangelicals; John McCain will never get the votes of some "social conservatives"; and Rudy and the Huck will never get the votes of some who want non-weird candidates. Democrats, on the other hand, don't seem to be in that mode. Despite their current fussing, each candidate seems to be acceptable to most Democrats.
• Every time Republicans get into a rhythm about targeting Hillary, guess who pops up: Obama. That must be very frustrating. Why can't the Democrats pick a front-runner and stick with him/her? That would make things so much nicer for the Republicans.
• Republicans, we are told, are "salivating" at the prospect of having Hillary as the nominee. Maybe, but just why is unclear to me. When is the last time the Republicans have beaten a Clinton -- Bill or Hillary?
• In South Carolina yesterday, more than 500,000 people voted in the Democratic primary. Last Saturday, the number of votes in the Republican primary was about 325,000. In New Hampshire, there were about 290,000 voters in the in the Democratic primary and a little more than 230,000 in the Republican primary. In the Iowa caucuses, reports were that there were far more people attending Democratic caucuses than Republican caucuses. There are many reasons for these differences, and they don't correlate directly to what will happen in November, but they have to be worrying to Republicans.

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