PRIMARY DAY

Primary Day is here in New Hampshire, at last. Starting tomorrow we here in the Granite State can get back to our normal lives, which means no more annoying phone calls from pollsters and campaign workers (robo-calls or live) and an end to the political advertisements on television. For those folks in places where the candidates and the press cause havoc, while they will miss the money rolling in, they won't miss the crowds and the aggravation.

A few thoughts on the election itself (if you want to hear more, you can tune-in tonight to Bloomberg Radio on your satellite service, online, or over the air on WBBR-New York, from 7 PM to 11 PM as I join Tom Maroney to cover the results).

This Gallup poll tells you everything you need to know about why Mitt Romney seems to have a clear path to the nomination. Of the candidates in the race, he is the only one who is "acceptable" to a broad swath of the Republican electorate. Everyone else in the field carries too much baggage for one part of the GOP coalition or another. Paul is too outside the mainstream on foreign policy, or too libertarian, or too old. Santorum is too much the social conservative, Gingrich has too much personal and political baggage, Huntsman is too liberal and Perry would be eaten alive by Obama on the debate stage. So that leaves Mitt.

You may not like it. I may not like it. But it is what it is.