I was in stats class when Twitter and Facebook exploded with rumors that Rick Santorum was bowing out of the presidential race. So of course I stopped paying attention to standard deviations and confidence intervals.
Indeed, despite mass confusion when Washington Post denied rumors that they reported Santorum’s forfeit, other media outlets, including CBS, FOX and later independently confirmed that the former Pennsylvania Senator had stepped out the race.
(Turns out, Washington Post already had a story on the wires but hadn’t confirmed the rumors when Bloomberg News broke the Post’s own story.)
Santorum/his staff sent an email to his supporters, citing his daughter’s hospitalization for his sudden departure from the field. Bella has since left the hospital.
“She has pneumonia,” Santorum told supporters in an email, “but like her Dad, she’s a fighter. It’s in the blood.”
The mainstream media/common sense now dictates that Romney is now the eventual Rominee (I wish I could say I made that up. Thanks, Twitter).
So now that it’s basically inevitable that Romney will face Obama in the general election (even Newt Gingrich admitted it), it looks like this political junkie is going to be bored rather than getting a brokered convention. Oh well.
But then it got interesting: turns out Romney and Bibi Netanyahu have known each other for more than 30 years. And they were very close confidants who went to school in Boston and shared similar political challenges. Kudos to the New York Times for this awesome work of journalism.
