Ma's Observations and Prognostications

The polls have not yet closed in South Carolina, so I'm going to make some predictions.

I think Newt will win by a very solid margin. Santorum will come in fourth. He will bow out either enough ahead of the Florida primary to help Newt or right after a poor showing in Florida. Absentee ballots will be a factor in the outcome in Florida - many have already been cast, and many of those were cast before Gingrich's surge this week. That probably helps Romney.

Gingrich will make some mistakes going forward but Romney will make more. Those who endorsed Romney early-on bought into the "inevitability" narrative. Some of them are going to have a sad case of buyer's remorse.

Megyn Kelly will become any even bigger star at Fox than she already is. (Stop drooling, Terry.)

Newt does need to go on a diet and Callista needs a new hairdo.

In my lifetime, you would have thought the world had turned on it's head when we elected a Roman Catholic as president. Now evangelicals are voting in droves for two Roman Catholics and a Mormon.

Campaign Carl Cameron is a hoot.

Isn't interesting that hardly a commentator has posited the theory that Marianne Gingrich could be lying.

I can't wait until the next debate!