It's 11:16 p.m. as I write this and it looks like former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney might rally to win the Ohio Republican presidential primary after trailing for most of the night. His surge is due in large part to support from voters in the Buckeye State's larger, urban and suburban areas.
Random Thought 1: I still don't hear the fat lady warming up.
Anyway, Romney now leads former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum by about 4,000 votes with 88 percent of the state's voting precincts reporting.
But if you take a look at the county-by-county results, Santorum stands to win 66 of Ohio's 88 counties. Granted, most of the counties Santorum is winning are rural counties, while Romney is winning in the larger population centers of Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo, Dayton, Akron, and the like. That's not a surprise, since Santorum's sort of grassroots approach was likely to play much better in rural communities than Romney's more slick, big city image.
Okay, it's 11:23 p.m., fellas. Do you know where your delegates are?
By the way, Texas Gov. Rick Perry now has about 7,000 votes and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman is up to about 6,000 votes in Ohio.
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