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Our Endorsements: Republican Women Prefer a Big Government
* Funny or Die confirms that size does matter when you want the government in your privates.
* Justice Breyer can't turn off his superhero power of gauging constitutionality, from The Onion.
* These skillets are made in the U.S.A. Most Americans will only be able to afford Rhode Island.
* John Boehner's war on women speech comes to life via drawing.
* Saturday Night Live has some fun with "Fox and Friends."
* Mitt Romney put a damper on Obama's big day.
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Ron Paul Scares GOP With Novel Strategy of Knowing Election Rules
Mitt Romney swept the East Coast primaries last night, leaving us with the crushing realization that we're going to be stuck with seven months worth of retreaded jokes about Romney's lack of human touch, like dogs stuck a top Mitt's car. At this point, the last interesting subplot in the Republican primary involves the potential influence America's most intelligent and ideologically consistent lawn gnome, Ron Paul, may exert on the convention in Tampa.Judging by his performance in Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, where he finished ahead of Newt Gingrich and is likely to garner several delegates, it will be some time before Paul is forced to return to his former profession of yelling at squirrels while handing out poorly mimeographed newsletters at the local park. Paul's relative success — he's generally improved on his 2008 performance — is a result of a novel strategy known as "study the fucking delegates selection rules and follow through after each caucus."
Not everyone in the GOP is happy with the Paul campaign's organizational strength. At a county caucus in Washington State, a Republican official tried to shut down a meeting after a Paul supporter had been elected to chair the gathering.
It's such nefarious rule-learning and organization that will allow Paul to control the Minnesota delegation to the Republican National Convention…
Paul took home 20 of the 24 possible delegates and nearly all the alternative delegates Saturday during the Minnesota congressional district conventions….
Thirteen more at-large delegates will be chosen at the Minnesota state convention, but the delegation demographics there will be very similar to those in the congressional districts, and Paul appears poised to come away with even more delegates after the May 4 convention.
Similarly, Paul is on track to win a majority of Iowa's delegates, despite coming in third place in the unofficial statewide tally. This means the Iowa Caucuses have now had three winners over the past few months, which begs the question — who do these indecisive Iowa voters think they are, Mitt Romney?
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BuzzFeed & Indecision: UnSuper Tuesday LIVE, 4/24 7:30pm ET
Comedy Central's Indecision is teaming up with BuzzFeed for live streaming coverage of tonight's East Coast GOP primary returns, starting at 7:30/6:30c. Catch the livestream right here at indecision.cc.com, at ustream.tv/unsupertuesday or at buzzfeed.com/unsupertuesday.
Our own editorial producer Mary Phillips-Sandy is hosting alongside BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith, with BuzzFeed politics reporter Zeke Miller providing real-time updates from campaign sources and social media.
Join us tonight at 7:30pm, and tweet us your questions and comments with the #UnSuperTuesday hashtag.
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GOP Primary Continues to Inspire Record Levels of Apathy
Since Rick Santorum dropped out of the GOP primary two weeks ago, it's been kind of a one-man race. Sure, Newt Gingrich keeps chugging along, huffing and puffing and sweating like he's just eaten a spicy meatball sub. But, as even he has begun to acknowledge, the race is over, and Mitt Romney has won.Voters in the Northeast aren't embracing to the better-than-expected weather Tuesday, with election officials across the region reporting exceedingly light turnout in primary contests across five states…
[T]urnout remains light in the Keystone State — and across the Northeast — lending a high volatility in some of the day's most interesting races…
According to Delaware Election Commissioner Elaine Manlove, fewer than 1,000 absentee ballots had been submitted before Tuesday, and reports there said turnout "is very light." "I think people probably think it's a done deal"…
If Gingrich is unable to prevail in Delaware, Tuesday night could also signal the beginning of the end for his struggling campaign.
Yes, tonight is the beginning of the end. As opposed to the last four months, when Newt lost one primary after another, with the exception of his home state of Georgia. If you think about it, tonight is really more the end of the end for Newt. And now that his campaign is officially on its deathbed, he's ready to abandon it.
You can't really blame voters for not being more psyched about Mitt Romney. He has all the personality of an electronic voting booth and all the excitement of a freshly starched suit.
Romney 2012: Yeah, sure, I guess?
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BuzzFeed & Indecision: UnSuper Tuesday LIVE, 4/24 7:30pm ET

Comedy Central's Indecision is teaming up with BuzzFeed for live streaming coverage of tomorrow night's East Coast GOP primary returns, starting at 7:30/6:30c. Catch the livestream right here at indecision.cc.com, at ustream.tv/unsupertuesday or at buzzfeed.com/unsupertuesday.
Our own editorial producer Mary Phillips-Sandy is hosting alongside BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith, with BuzzFeed politics reporter Zeke Miller providing real-time updates from campaign sources and social media.
Join us tomorrow, Tues. April 24 at 7:30, and tweet us your questions and comments with the #UnSuperTuesday hashtag.
Tags: Ben Smith, BuzzFeed, Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, Primaries, Rhode Island, UnSuperTuesday