HoodaThunk?

…are located here. Along the left side of the page are links to the various parts of results pages. Take note of the Reporting Status, Voter Turnout, and Republican Primary/U.S. President links particularly. As of this moment, the last update showing on that page was at 9:11 pm. The standings are: McCain 33.9%, Romney 33.2%, Giuliani 14.0%, Huckabee 13.9%, Paul 3.2%.

Fred Thompson’s got 1.3% and he’s not even running.

I know the networks are doing this off the exit polls but let’s not forget something. All those early voters aren’t at the polling places to walk out of the exits, so they’re not in the network’s sample at all. We’ve got a long way to go, folks.

Update: After writing this post last night, I got involved in other things around the house and only when I was shutting off the lights to go to bed did I realize I’d not even looked to see how things were going. Checking the same site as I listed above I see the standings this morning are: McCain 36%, Romney 31%, Giuliani 14.6%, Huckabee 13.5%, and Paul 3.2%. There are still some counties not showing as completed and there are more of them reporting not yet complete with provisionals than are but I highly doubt anythings going to change in the standings here.

Anyone who has read my stuff knows where my problems with McCain lie. The speech limitations in McCain-Feingold, the Gang of 14, the attempted shove-down of the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill, his comments and attitude toward anyone (but especially Republicans) who think border security should come before handing away the store to illegals, and many more smaller issues combine to add up to someone who’s right on 1 thing – the war – and so very wrong on everything else. I cannot believe that he’ll honestly change any of those things once in the Oval Office. But it appears to be what more of my fellow Republicans want than not. I guess we’ll see where this leads.

Romney’s not dead, either, not by a longshot. Florida’s rules on how the delegates get awarded appear to be, literally, a winner-takes-all approach and that has shot McCain into first place according to CNN’s Delegate Scorecard. Romney’s not so far behind, not this early in things.

Giuliani, however, is very much that far behind. Even coming in 3rd, here, he’s done for and the rumors are that he’ll bow out today. What disappoints me is who he’s bowing out to endorse – McCain. Given his stances on things I suppose he couldn’t endorse Romney. And Huckabee came in behind Giuliani. He’s also got no chance at all and I hope to see him drop out today, too, even if that’ll bring this race down to 2. (What’s that? There’s a 3rd guy still in the race? Ron Paul? Please. Ron Paul was never in this race, at least not outside of the fantasies of his fanatic supporters. He should do the rest of the party a favor and bow out, resign from the GOP, and seek the Libertarian nomination.)

Super Tuesday’s up next and then, on the 12th, we Virginians get a shot at it. Stay tuned, sports fans…