Posted on 02/07/2012 8:12:03 PM PST by SeekAndFind
DENVER — Rick Santorum had a breakthrough night on Tuesday by winning the Missouri primary and the Minnesota caucuses, breathing life into his struggling campaign and slowing Mitt Romney’s march to the Republican presidential nomination.
Early returns had Santorum running two-to-one over Romney in Missouri, and the Associated Press projected he would win the state’s “beauty contest” primary, which awards no delegates but provides fresh momentum to the former Pennsylvania senator’s campaign.
Romney was hoping to extend his winning streak as he tried to strengthen his claim to the mantle of the presumptive nominee, but he was bracing for a loss in one or more states as Santorum made an aggressive run in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri.
Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.), who has yet to secure a win in the 2012 sweepstakes, mobilized his loyal support networks in the three states, banking on low turnout in the non-binding contests to give him a win.
Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich did not compete in Missouri, which was holding a “beauty contest” primary that awarded no delegates. The former House speaker looked past Tuesday’s contests and instead campaigned in Ohio, one of several delegate-rich states voting March 6 on “Super Tuesday,” when he hopes to jump-start his struggling candidacy.
The Colorado and Minnesota caucuses are not binding and would not award convention delegates, but at stake Tuesday night was the prestige of winning.
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BAD NEWS IN COLORADO, It looks like Denver is being counted and Romney has turned the tables around...
Colorado: Romney 37, Santorum 35, Gingrich 14, Paul 13 (51% counted)
what’s the delegate math looking like after tonight? same as last night.
Santorum is too big government and he’d not do well in debates. There’s just not enough ‘there’ there.
Plenty appears to be out from other areas still, though...if Santorum is only down by 2% with Denver in he should be able to overtake him again with nearly half the vote still out from the rest of the state.
Congrats, nnd thanks to all who helped in any way. Keep praying!
Yeah, try actually answering what I freakin said about him then. You’re projecting.
You haven’t been watching the same campaign as the rest of us, apparently.
Heard on local news 2 minute ago that it’s Santorum 37% Ferengi-Rom 36% with 47% of the CO vote tallied.
should have known this was going to happen.
probably huge fraud going on right now
“If Roman Catholics can’t get behind this guy and still vote for Obama, I would be uncertain how many voters who call themselves Catholic really are...”
My husband and I are Roman Catholics who always vote for pro-life, conservative candidates, and so do our brothers and sisters.
Who has that county map for CO?
I Found it...
http://graphics.latimes.com/2012-election-gop-results-map-colorado/
It’s bad news for the ROMbots.
Parts of the Denver area and counties and Boulder County has already been counted. The biggest county in the state has not come in - El Paso county (most conservative) containing the city of Colorado Springs.
Baloney. He creamed Newt and Mittens in the FL debate. His stump speech focuses on personal freedoms and the overbearing size of Govt'. Your Big Govt' spin is just that. His message and history is striking a chord with the electorate. That is why people are voluntarily voting for him in large numbers in places it is hard to get people involved. He got 55% of the vote in MN, the highest ceiling of any GOP candidate this election cycle. He can win and he is.
Now RoMBot 38% Santo 36% @55%
That is what I was wondering...if Denver & C. Springs has reported. From the CNN map, lots of western rural counties have not reported and should favor Rick.
Sorry, don’t agree. He was wishy washy on SOPA and that was very suspicious.
Even when he testified against the particular democrat proposal, in that very testimony he said he would support cap and trade if it was limited to more polluted areas and combined with green coal and nuclear support.
Gingrich has said so many things that in most cases, you can find a quote where he supports the conservative position; so long as people don’t pretend that finding one conservative quote negates every non-conservative thing he said about the same subject.
Santorum retakes the lead with 59% in. I’m a bit leary of those counties immediately surrounding Denver, however, still being out.
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