Ohio Primary

And Also: Other than correcting two typos in opinions (one involving the word "edit"),
 we have details on the upcoming telephonic arguments, including questioning by seniority.

When NY is getting some criticism, we will not likely to be too impressed by any Republican governor's response to the Big V, but a few cases at least probably can be found. Gov. DeWine (remember him from the Gang of 14?) is getting some kudos. When Mike Pence, the head of the task force after all (remember?), cannot wear a damn mask when he visits the Mayo Clinic, the governor wearing one in a picture found in the NYT itself is notable.  And, his move somewhat aggressively (including in the face of a judicial order, if not the state supreme court like Wisconsin), to delay the primary election on March 17th is part of that.

Finding sane Republicans in Congress might be a tad harder and we have months to see what Mitt "2012 Republican POTUS Nominee / sole impeachment conviction vote" Romney does regarding endorsing Trump and/or Biden.  Rep. Justin Amash is no longer a Republican and has decided to seek out the Libertarian Party nomination, LARP-ing about being "president" and bringing decency back or something.  One hopes this won't really matter and there was going to be a LP nominee for people to vote for regardless.  Unclear this guy adds many votes there in any real degree, but it still is egotistic assholery.  The link suggests any value will be anti-Trump, but the guy is implying that neither nominee is the decent choice.  Both sides do it!  Enough with that shit NOW.

Anyway, there was a primary, mostly by mail.  Talk about "beauty contests," there actually by this count more Republicans voting for Trump than Democrats for Biden and company.  The website has Ohio as a swing state, okay, though it has been comfortably Republican for a time.  There are more mail-in votes to count (as long as they are postmarked in time) but that count has Biden about 72% and Sanders at 16.6% (there is a 15% floor and with 2/3 votes in, he had something like 15.2%, so obtained a bit of a safety margin there). A late "surge" also helped Warren overtake Bloomberg, both with a little over 3%.   Bronze is bronze.

Originally, Booker had a few votes and Yang none -- he couldn't get on the ballot and was fighting for a write-in campaign -- but as of this writing it is the other way around.  I think this is an error -- the NYT results has Booker with votes.  Anyway, since 11% are split around for also rans, which does amount to more than that in delegates, instant run-off voting has value here too.  Plus, yes, there are some other races though most of them were not competitive either.  Still, at least one of the house races were competitive. And, even then, you have effects when you have multiple candidates.

It is appreciated that we can have elections in these times though this is not actually you know WWII or something. Or, the Civil War, where we even had elections in places in the South in the middle of things. Let's have one of those presidential primary things in New York, huh? Think we can handle it.