The Daily Show on Mitt Romney's Underwhelming Super Tuesday Wins

One positive outcome the Republican primary race: If I'm understanding the quantum suicide thought experiment correctly, I think we're all gonna be immortal. So, we got that going for us.

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Related: Mitt Romney Wins Despite Comical Unlikability: 3 Lessons From Super Tuesday

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Our Endorsements: Political Pets

* Your pet says a lot about what kind of political animal you are, from Animal Planet.

* Were we supposed to come to any sort of conclusion about last night's results? The Onion says no.

* Funny or Die's Super Tuesday spin room is dizzyingly funny.

* A group of hilarious McSweeney's articles is called murderously funny:  here, here, and here.

* Here's a new alcoholic drink you're going to want to throw up at the end of the night.

* Mother Jones article or Walking Dead fan fiction?

* It's a Free Country does a live video broadcast of Super Tuesday featuring comedian Baratunde Thurston.

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Indecision's Mary Phillips-Sandy on ABC News

Behold the burgeoning of a new force in TV news punditry: our own Editorial Producer Mary Phillips-Sandy on ABC News' online live stream last night…

You may have also noticed Indecision bloggers Jess Dweck and Gonzalo Cordova's segment from yesterday embedded in there as well. I have to say, everybody came out looking really good in that. Well spoken, thoughtful, telegenic, effervescent even.

Now, I don't wanna brag, but I'm none too shabby myself. In fact, here's me blogging from my home office in Chicago last night. (They had better lighting.)

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The Best of #SuperTuesday on Twitter

Twitter gets a gold star for its coverage of Super Tuesday…

CNN: Mitt Romney wins primaries in Virginia, Vermont and Ballsdippedingoldsylvania.

— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) March 7, 2012

For three guys who profess to dislike the media, Romney, Santorum and Gingrich are really making all our dreams come true.

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) March 7, 2012

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Mitt Romney Wins Despite Comical Unlikability: 3 Lessons From Super Tuesday

Mitt Romney came out ahead on Super Tuesday in the same way he's won most contests this primary cycle: with a resounding "Meh." He dominated Massachusetts (72.1%), had a strong finish in Massachusetts Junior (39.8% in VT), won the Idaho and Alaska caucuses, and pulled out a 1% victory over Rick Santorum in Ohio that was just unimpressive enough to keep the political media speculating about a "brokered convention" in August.

So what did we learn?

1. Romney dominated among the key "people who want to vote for someone who appears on the ballot" demographic. Despite the close finish, Romney is expected to pick up 35 delegates from Ohio compared to Santorum's 21, in part due to Santorum's failure to qualify for the ballot in three districts. In Virginia, Romney will come away with 43 delegates to Ron Paul's 3.

2. If the convention is "brokered," Sarah Palin will be the wrong person to "fixer" it. In the Alaska caucuses, Palin cast her ballot for "the cheerful one…"

"Who can best bust through that radical left's kind of dispensation and desire to mistreat those who are defenseless, mistreat those who perhaps have some disadvantages by making them more beholden to government? Who best can contrast themselves from that?" she continued. “I thought who best could do that [and] my own personal opinion is, the cheerful one, is Newt Gingrich. I have appreciated what he has stood for, stood boldly for."

Newt Gingrich came in fourth in Alaska.

3. Indecision punditry is not to be messed with. Here's my colleague Gonzalo's prediction: "I predict Mitt Romney will be the big winner but the news coverage will still make it seem like he lost somehow." And the Atlantic this morning…

If [Romney] does manage to pull it out, it seems clear it will be not with a bang but a whimper. As in Ohio, it will be narrowly, down to the wire, and with the maximum amount of stress and suffering.

On to Guam and the Virgin Islands!

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