Comments from voters on Super Tuesday, the biggest night of the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination with 419 delegates at stake.
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"I was ready for it to be over in November." — Don Ryan, 71, of Anderson Township in suburban Cincinnati. Voted for Mitt Romney.
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"He's the smartest person I've ever heard speak. He gets straight to the point and he's a straight forward guy." — Joseph Steadman, of Nashville, 25, a district executive with the Boy Scouts of America. Voted for Newt Gingrich.
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"I can't see Romney. There's just something about him, probably all that money." — Robert G. Reed, 76, of Anderson Township in suburban Cincinnati. Voted for Rick Santorum.
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"I think he's a little more practical on the economy. I think Obama's a little pie in the sky. His ideas maybe sound great, but they don't seem to work well." — John Schaefer, 67, a physician in Norfolk, Va. Voted for Romney
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"Rick Santorum is way too far right and Newt has way too much baggage." — Rendon Chambers, 26, a political science student at the University of Oklahoma. Voted for Romney at a church in Moore.
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"If it comes down to it, I'd vote for Mickey Mouse before I'd vote for Obama." — John Legg, 54, of Columbus, a supervisor at a plant that makes bakery machine parts. Legg voted for Gingrich.
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"Most of them are concerned with religious rights and putting their views on other people. And there's something about Romney that I just don't like, I don't trust." — Chuck Horning, 47, an independent from Anderson Township, Ohio, who voted on local issues and avoided choosing a GOP candidate.
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"I don't think the Republicans have that guy out there who can beat Obama." — Chuck Grant, 58, a teacher from Westerville, near Columbus, Ohio. Voted for Santorum.