On Sunday’s show, Melissa previewed today’s bucketful of Republican presidential primaries using jelly beans as stand-ins for the delegates Mitt Romney and his fellow hopefuls hope to collect tonight. (And yes, she was counting the beans herself prior to the show.)
That day, the New York Times also detailed not only the delegate math that Romney hopes wins him the Republican nomination for President; it also described how he’s following the Obama model. Just now in his White House press conference, the President was asked to weigh in on tonight’s Super Tuesday’s contests and respond to Romney’s rhetoric about him (including this morning at AIPAC). President Obama offered no projections or retorts, only this to Romney:
“Good luck tonight.”
Asked jokingly by a press corps member what he really felt, he said simply, “Really.”
Expecting the President offer a prognostication is a little silly, so it is best to check in with Nate Silver.
He added that even though tonight may add up to a success for Romney and help to re-establish him as the front-runner along the path towards the nomination, there are implications for the general election:









