From a Bill Bennett listener:

Just finished listening to you on “MIA” and a little while later a caller said what I have been hearing a lot lately: “Mitt is my second choice”. Many people supporting McCain, Fred, Rudy always say that and so coming in second continuously might not provide immediate satisfaction but it is a pathway to becoming a consensus candidate, since none of the three mentioned will be winning anything outright. Needless to say I am Mitt supporter and would like to use a sports analogy from the sport I am familiar with: figure skating. Skaters have to do two programs as part of the competition and there has been plenty of national and international competitions at all levels where the skater that finished second or worse in each program ends up winning gold overall. There will be at least a little while until we know if this analogy holds. That’s good for the pundit class so enjoy it!