Posted on 01/19/2012 1:44:33 PM PST by TBBT
(CNN) - Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have flipped spots again in the tally of New Hampshire ballots.
The New Hampshire Secretary of State's office released updated vote totals Thursday showing Gingrich jumping back into fourth and Santorum dropping to fifth. Numbers announced Wednesday had Santorum in fourth and Gingrich in fifth.
Gingrich had 23,421 votes in the latest count, and Santorum had 23,405. Both stood at 9.4% of the vote total, meaning neither qualifies for any delegates from the Granite State.
New Hampshire held its primary January 10. Mitt Romney won the primary with 39.3% of the vote, followed by Ron Paul at 22.9% and Jon Huntsman at 16.9%.
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I’ve ponder elsewhere... Wonder if Drudge is getting paid by the hour for keeping the Ex-Wife story the main headline?
I wonder if Drudge intends to keep it the main headline until Saturday night and the polls close...
On this subject, if South Carolina picks somebody different than both Iowa and New Hampshire (i.e. Gingrich), it may diminish the influence of at least NH pushing it’s preferred moderate nominees. Conservatives will have captured the nomination back from the moderate establishment types and their plans will be in tatters.
Drudge is such a hack. He puts up one Fast and Furious story in the last year and that stays up about 15 minutes before it disappears from his page entirely.
Is New Hampshire a winner take all primary? How do the votes play out?
Drudge has been on the Romney bandwagon for quite some time now. I got so sick of it yesterday that I decided to stop visiting his site.
There was a landslide of bad news for Mittens yesterday. Not ONE of them received adequate promotion. If I ran a news site, I’d plaster that 200-page research compendium on the front page and keep it up there until he was no longer running.
PinG!
“Drudge has been on the Romney bandwagon for quite some time now. I got so sick of it yesterday that I decided to stop visiting his site.”
I have also. No more Drudge for me until after the primaries are over. I can’t stand his obvious bias.
Gingrich is probably going to be the only candidate acceptable to enough Republicans to get the nomination. Romney never broke 50%.
I want to ask Drudge if Mitt is paying him for keeping it up there, and how much.
getting less than 10% is a defeat for conservatives. Both newt and santorum failed. At 10.1% both of them would have received 1 delegate (12 x 10% = 1)
10% is the minimum viability threshold in NH. So their votes go to the winner.
23% x 12 = 3 delegates for ronpaul
17% x 12 = 2 delegates for huntsman
Romney the winner gets the balance of 7 delegates.
Winner take all is not allowed until April 1st. I believe.
Wow, amazingly fast to report this.
How about the IOWA news? ;)
What, you know THAT DOESN”T MATTER -
Iowa is a tiny, tiny state.
It’s totally BLUE. Nobody who’s ANYBODY wins a hick state like IOWA.
Too bad. Oh well I think all the candidates are great (except Romney) for even trying to run for President. It is not easy which is why we have only had 44 out of a trillion Americans over the years. He is only 53. Bachmann is only 56. Perry is only 60. I think all three are patriots for even trying to run. I refuse to bash Santorum. He has some great qualities and we all would be better off with Santorum over Romney and Obama.
Stop making this State 1st!
More good news for Newt Gingrich..and slightly bad news for Santorum, with an small bump for Newt..?
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