Romney wins Maryland, DC and Wisconsin

Politico:

The long, draining Republican primary season may finally have reached a turning point Tuesday, with Mitt Romney on his way to sweeping three contests in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia, and potentially dealing a decisive blow to his most dogged foe, Rick Santorum. 

Romney is projected to win both Maryland and the nation’s capital; he had 50 percent of the Maryland vote with 12 percent of precincts reporting and 68 percent of the D.C. vote with 14 percent of precincts in. There was little mystery surrounding the outcome in either contest as Santorum wasn’t on the ballot in D.C. and Romney led by huge margins in Maryland polling.

The Wisconsin contest is likely to be the marquee result: both Romney and Santorum have campaigned heavily there and the super PACs supporting them have spent substantial sums on the air. 

There, too, Romney is the favorite, maintaining a 7-point edge in polling conducted by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, and NBC News and Marist College. Network exit polling showed 83 percent of Wisconsin primary voters now believe Romney will ultimately be the GOP nominee, according to CBS News.

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Wisconsin maybe tighter than the earlier polling indicated, but Romney will still win.  While the story suggest a sweep will put more pressure on Santorum and others to quite, the probably will not.  Santorum is currently leading in Texas polls so he sees its big block of delegates as important.  But the pattern of late has been that his leads shrink or disappear as the elections draw closer.  We are already seeing that in his home state of Pennsylvania where is lead has been cut to single digits.

Many are growing weary of the campaign which is why turnout is running a little behind where it should be.  I think the enthusiasm will pick up when voters get a chance to vote against Obama.  Make no mistake about it, that is what this election will be about.