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Romney just beat McCain by one point in the CPAC straw poll, 35 percent to 34 percent. The crowd went wild, for what reason, I don't know. It isn't as if Romney suddenly appeared out of the wings to declare he was back in the race at the behest of the people.

Huckabee and Ron Paul tied with 12 percent each. There's a Ying and Yang for you.

There was more of a breakdown, but I was asked to leave because I wouldn't sit between a couple yahoos when a CPAC volunteer asked me to. After approximately one million solemn invocations of the words "liberty" and "freedom" I supposed I might have some freedom to move at my liberty. Alas, definitional purity is as sorely lacking here as one might suspect.