Don’t miss Post #1! GO NEWT!
Newt, please shout these comments from the tallest building you can find. Newt’s a man amongst boys.
I’m afraid there’s a lot of wishful thinking here. While all of these States have quirks in their delegate allocation details - Fl and AZ were always “winner take all” States, while ID was proportional - but with a “winner take all” provision if certain percentages were reached.
Romney isn’t my first choice, but the math to get to 1144 is strikingly simple. The key is that there are only 7 remaining States that are “winner take all,” and Romney is likely to win all of them.
Given that, unless Santorum can win one of the major Winner take all States, Romney only needs to get 26.2% of the remaining proportionally distributed delegates to get to 1144 prior to Tampa. The state by state math here: http://axdwhiteman.info/index.php/quick-hits
Oh the THORN in Romneys side, just won’t go away and he can’t ignore it. Good for Newt, keep going.