"Obviously Wisconsin is going to be a close race, we're not sure about Maryland or Washington, D.C.," Gidley (Santorum spokesman) said Tuesday on MSNBC. "We expect Mitt Romney to do well in the D.C., area, no shock there, in fact it might even be unanimous — I don't know that we'll pick up a single vote in D.C. because of the vitriol D.C. has for a someone like Rick Santorum who wants to shake things up here in Washington."

Barry Jive wrote:you sure?

jeff2sf wrote:
Now, the reason I'm not going to search for it is because what we know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, is the way the unions want things done now has resulted in disaster and the ruination of the American teaching system. .

jeff2sf wrote:I'd be, somewhat, ok with settling for being able to blowing up tenure and removing poorly performing teachers. A natural sideline to that is to pay the teachers who aren't terrible more. If you're saying we can't figure that out, then fine, we'll just fire all the bad teachers, keep the good teachers at the same rate and move on. Is that a good solution? .

jeff2sf wrote:The point is, we're going to keep trying to get the merit thing right, and we've got years or even decades to go before it mirrors the terrible status quo of unions and tenure.

jeff2sf wrote:And give me a break with this idea that principals are going to suddenly just play favorites/nepotism if they're given some control over the merit process. Like the whole system will just fall apart. Principals are going to generally favor people who are good at their jobs and don't cause problems for them. If you throw in an element of merit pay for the principals, as someone upthread suggested, you increase the odds even more that the principals are going to play fair. .

jeff2sf wrote: I mean it's like you think there are right now, a cadre of principals just rubbing their hands in glee about the chance to finally be allowed to be the evil people you know them to be.

jerseyhoya wrote:Romney wins Maryland, possibly by a whole lot.

If Romney can win MD-06, which is mostly rural, western MD, that would be a pretty good sign leading into the PA primary. Maybe Santorum will just go away.

jerseyhoya wrote:I mean, there's nothing in yet from the Milwaukee suburbs and he's still winning. He probably will end up winning by a lot. I just don't get why you don't call right at 9 PM if you're gonna call after so little comes in.

jerseyhoya wrote:Romney wins Maryland, possibly by a whole lot.

If Romney can win MD-06, which is mostly rural, western MD, that would be a pretty good sign leading into the PA primary. Maybe Santorum will just go away.