Romney Cruises In Illinois

LA Times:

Mitt Romney scored a decisive victory over Rick Santorum in the Illinois primary on Tuesday, tightening his grip on the Republican front-runner’s slot and improving his chances of locking up the nomination by the end of the presidential primary season in June.

Santorum, meantime, suffered a serious setback in his effort to send the GOP battle spilling onto the floor of the nominating convention in late August.

Turnout in the Chicago metro area, where most of the state’s voters live, was said to be light, despite clear skies and record-high temperatures in the mid-80s. But Romney carried the largely suburban collar counties around Chicago by 20 percentage points, according to exit poll data, building a lead that Santorum was unable to overcome in other parts of the state.

What this shows is that Rick Santorum would be a dead man walking in a general election.  I'm somewhat disappointed that we might not have a national referendum on taking away citizens' birth control and porn.  That would have been a very entertaining campaign, and it would have allowed Republicans to embarrass themselves.  I could just hear them, "we're the party of less government involvement in everything but in your sex life."  That would have been good times.