Romney in New Hampshire

Romney wins in New Hampshire and unsurprisingly a third of those asked said that electability was their main consideration in deciding which way they voted. His win is a little surprising as my father always told me you cannot trust a man who doesn't drink. A lot of others say you cannot trust a politician. Yet despite these two reasons supposedly for not voting for him Romney he has won the Primary. Perhaps the bit about not trusting a man who doesn't drink doesn't apply to Romney because he's a Mormon and Mormon's are not allowed to drink. By contrast they were allowed to have four wives but this rule was changed when it became apparent that they couldn't handle having four mothers-in-law. A Mormon told me that. He had some really good jokes too but that's the only one I remember as I found myself drinking for the two of us. It seems Mormons have no problem with other people drinking, they just don't partake themselves. If Romney makes it to the White House I wonder what the parties will be like there and what will happen when it comes to proposing a toast. I guess they will just toast in coca cola or water or something similarly tame. From all accounts it seems as if PMQs today was tame as well with Cameron being kind to Miliband. This did not stop Miliband making a bit of a fool of himself over the cap on rail fare increases as Guido Fawkes makes clear here. He did well on Scotland though.