- Romney coasts in Illinois.
- The coalescing continues: Tea Party behemoth FreedomWorks drops its opposition to Romney.
- Erick Erickson dubs him the nominee.
- Bill Kristol is still in the throes of despair though.
- Mitt Romney is Google Plus.
- As GOP presidential campaign accounts dwindle, super PACs pick up the slack.
- Many voters are stupid and that’s OK.
- No one, not even Paul Ryan, is filling in the blanks on tax reform and budget balancing.
- Ron Paul isn’t jealous that all the other candidates have Secret Service protection because it’s “welfare” and he wouldn’t want a cool codename like “Bullion” or “Eldorado” anyway.
- And TIME listicles the 140 best Twitterers of 2012.