Michigan's Last Call

As day dawns on the peninsular state, the final polling composite projects this result for the Michigan Primary:

Romney 28.9%, McCain 27.9%, Huckabee 18.3%, Giuliani 6.4%, Thompson 5.7%

Are Michiganders "coming home" to Mitt?  Is the message of the McCain Menace reaching GOP ears there and motivating an alarmed turnout swell to counter the expected horde of Donk mischief-makers with nothing to vote for on their side of the contest since only Hillary's name is on its ballot?  Is Kos' ill-considered advice being followed?

Or will these polls whiff as badly as the ones in New Hampshire?

It's up to you, Plasticman.  The fate of the party as a viable political (to say nothing of philosophically conservative) entity may well rest on your Sam Malonesque countenance.

No pressure.  Just keep repeating, "There is no strawberry, there is no strawberry..."  If that doesn't keep Darth Queeg distracted, nothing will.

UPDATE: Wanna know why the stakes are that high?  Take a look ahead (current polling composites):

Nevada - McCain 22%, Giuliani 18%, Huckles 16%, Romney 15%, Thompson 11%

South Carolina - Huckles 27%, McCain 23%, Romney 17%, Thompson 11%, Giuliani 7%

Florida - McCain 21%, Giuliani 21%, Huckles 18%, Romney 17%, Thompson 9%

California - McCain 27%, Giuliani 16%, Romney 15%, Huckles 14%, Thompson 8%

New Jersey - Giuliani 30%, McCain 24%, Romney 10%, Huckles 10%, Thompson 4%

Gentlebeings, if Darth Queeg is up double-digits in California and within six points of Rudy in his own backyard, the GOP as we have known it for a generation (i.e. the party of Ronald Reagan) is in serious, grievous, calamitous trouble.  There can only be one reason for such polling numbers: the perception of John McCain as the Republican frontrunner - or, in other words, the very reason why Mitt Romney focused like a laser beam on winning Iowa and New Hampshire in the first place.  And the only way to disturb that disturbing miasma of political calculus is for Romney to knock off McCain in Michigan today and at the very least restore the muddle in order to open the door for himself, Rudy, or Fred to score big in Florida and the Super Tuesday states.

I can only go by the numbers.  And as they currently stand (and could, of course, still change in any which direction), if "Sailor" takes Michigan, with the momentum he's already got from New Hampshire....

Let's just say that Nelson Rockefeller is smiling from hell right about now.