Chicago Republicans

This was a very interesting Republican Primary. Mitt Romney was the early frontrunner, but there were some interesting challenges from several different flavor-of-the-month competitors. I believe the Republican Primary is now over and Romney will be the nominee.

The online trading market, Intrade, which has proven to be more accurate than polls now has Romney with a 75% chance of being the GOP nominee.

Intrade has Ron Paul at 7%, Newt Gingrich at 5.8% Santorum at 3.8%, and the rest at less than 1%. It also gives a 15% chance Hermain Cain will endorse Newt Gingrich.

I still think Ron Paul might win Iowa, but Romney immediate takes all the momentum by taking a 2-1 vote advantage over his next competitor in the Granite State.

Conservatives have had a tough time trusting Romney because of his "apparent" liberal compromises. Some of the better analysts have astutely pointed out Romney was a Republican governor in once of the most liberal east coast states in the nation. Romney was widely criticized for nominating more Democrats for Judges than Republicans. This sounds like a good political hammer to pound Romney and all his opponents tried. But, when Romney explained every person on his states judicial nominating committee were Democrats, it is easy to see why he did it.
Many loudmouth conservatives protest because Romney fails their rigid litmus test, but he passes my good compromise test. I still might vote for Newt in the primary, but will eagerly support Romney in the general.