Letter: Times coverup of Romney juggernaut!

Why is the St. Pete Times showing such bias in reporting the news? Gov. Mitt Romney was hardly reported to have won Nevada. It was a small paragraph if you happened to look at the fine print at the bottom on one of the pages! Why is it that St. Pete Times has not reported the delegate count so far?
Seventy-two is the number of delegates that Romney has quietly assembled in finishing consistently high in all five primaries to date. Seventy-six is the number that all other GOP candidates have COMBINED. -- Gerri Wilmer

Dear Ms. Wilmer: I suspect it's one of two things. Either we are slanting the news to try to cover up the existence of a Romney juggernaut, OR, it's the fact that the early delegate count is pretty much irrelevant and always has been. The point of Iowa, New Hampshire, S.C. Nevada and so forth is not as much the actual delegate count at stake, which is a minuscule percentage of what's needed to win, but to try to gauge the relative strengths of the campaigns.

Since the pack is being roughly handicapped at the moment as Romney, McCain, Huckabee, Giuliani and Paul in that order, I don't think there's any denying or any downplaying of the fact that Romney is at the front of the pack. It'll be interesting to see whether McCain gets past him in Florida and by how narrow a margin.

Comments

[telem]

It was interesting to get an automated phone call claiming to be from McCain's campaign asking me for my 1st & 2nd choices.

[Larry]

Governor Coppertone has done it again. Spit in the face of all Floridians by endorsing the only presidential candidate who is opn record against a national catastrophe fund to provide some relief for Florida homeowner's property insurance. Howard, this man, who has never in his life even owned any property, is an incredible piece of work. Unless he's going after the VEEP spot on the McCain ticket, he sure ain't looking out for the folks in Florida.