Posted on 03/07/2012 1:46:06 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
Columbus, Ohio (CNN) -- Mitt Romney won six Super Tuesday states including the big prize of Ohio, while Rick Santorum took three states and Newt Gingrich grabbed a vital triumph in Georgia, CNN projected.
Romney was projected early Wednesday to win Alaska's caucuses, the last to tally votes among the 10 states with delegates up for grabs.
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Certain states are also getting many more delegates than you would think. If they were more valuable to the Republican candidate in the last election, then they get additional delegates.
There was a big mistake made in Virginia. Both Gingrich and Santorum should have spent money to help get votes to Ron Paul. In the last primary, there were 489,000 votes, but only 265,000 votes yesterday - a difference of 224,000. If Ron Paul could of gotten only 1/4 of those non-votes, he would have carried Virginia and Romney would have 10% fewer delegates.
It's sad that with the opportunities that we have the republican elitists are able to push a socialist rino on us.
Hi : )
Note the Hard totals:
Not sure how this running total will line up (formatting) but it can be found here:
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/R
GOP PRIMARY: Popular Vote - — Soft Pledged - - Soft Unpledged — Soft Total - - Hard Total
Mitt Romney: .3,242,740, 39.20% (314)17.36% (72)15.09% (386)16.89% .(302)13.21%
Rick Santorum: 2,087,454, 25.23% .(92) 5.09% .(67)14.05% .(159) 6.96% .(79)3.46%
Newt Gingrich: 1,818,548, 21.98% .....(107)5.91% . ...(13) 2.73%...(120)5.25% .(96)4.20%
Ron Paul: .,927,348, 11.21% ... (35)1.93%.......(38)7.97%......(73)3.19% ..(16)0.70%
Candidate | Popular Vote |
Delegate Votes | |||
Soft Pledged |
Soft Unpledged |
Soft Total |
Hard Total | ||
Romney, Mitt | 3,242,740 39.20% | 314 17.36% | 72 15.09% | 386 16.89% | 302 13.21% |
Santorum, Rick | 2,087,454 25.23% | 92 5.09% | 67 14.05% | 159 6.96% | 79 3.46% |
Gingrich, Newt | 1,818,548 21.98% | 107 5.91% | 13 2.73% | 120 5.25% | 96 4.20% |
Paul, Ron | 927,348 11.21% | 35 1.93% | 38 7.97% | 73 3.19% | 16 0.70% |
WOW!
Thank YOU very MUCH!
Looks like Newt is on par or ahead of Rick.
We’re gonna have to push back...and HARD! :)
not true. polls don’t necessarily show all of santoru’s supporters going to newt...
Yup, because Newt did succeed on Super Tuesday in getting more delegates [total] than Mittens and Santorum where he campaigned the most, which was Georgia, Tennessee, and Oklahoma.
Right now, Newt's message is not resonating outside the states where he has not put much of a campaign effort like Santo and Myth, but hopefully that will change.
you’re correct. But I never said anything like what you have tried to imply. Did I?
I think it was in “The Hobbit” where Bilbo got the trolls to turn into stone by egging them on to argue about how to cook him once he was dead. Because they were arguing amongst each other they didn’t notice that the sun was coming up.
The sun is coming up, and unless both Newt and Rick really comprehend what that means, we will lose our only chance at being able to vote for somebody who DOESN’T believe the government can force churches to violate their own beliefs. And we may well end up with another 4 years of the Muslim-ururper-in-chief who is diligently working with communists and Islamists the world over to destroy this nation from within.
We can’t afford to let pride and politics distract us from the real battle for this nation’s survival.
It's Santorum or Romney. A vote for Newt is a vote for Romney at this point.
True conservatives that realize the biggest threat to freedom is the big government Rick Santorum helped build.
Who else other than Santorum do you think Romney's sleaze machine targeted in Michigan and Ohio? And, Santorum still nearly won both states. Santorum only lost Ohio because of votes going to Gingrich.
When the Romney sleaze machine was turned loose on Newt in Florida, he got buried.
161 Santorum.
Wrong. Santorum has 161 - any unbound delegates the establishment deems necessary to put Romney over the top
In the popular vote, to date Romney leads with over 3.2 million votes which is right at 40%. Santorum is second with 2 million votes or 26% , Gingrich is third with 1.8 million votes or 22% and Ron Paul is fourth with 900 thousand votes or 11%.
The effectiveness of Romney's campaign however, can be measured in his delegate count. Although he has only one 40% of the popular vote, this has translated to date into 431 delgates or 54% of the total delegates awarded to date. Santorum follows with 176 delegates or 21%, Gingrich with 126 or 15% and Paul with 79 delegates or 10%. At this rate, Romney has a good chance of winning the delegates needed to clinch the nomination before the convention, but it will go on until late in the season.
So, after Santorum's three win in February, Romney bounced back with five straight wins. On March 6th, Super Tuesday, Romney added six more wins, Santorum three more, and Gingrich one more. Romney is estatic about coming from behind and winning Ohio, though it was a near thing. Because of the closeness of the Ohio votes, and his other three wins, Santorum vows to stay in. Gingrich because of his strong win in his home state of Georgia also vows to stay in, and there was never any question, even with no wins, that Ron Paul will stay in on principle.
In my opinion, the tough primary season, despite pundents prognostications, continues to strengthen the candidates, keeping the GOP message at the top of the news cycle, and preparing the nominee to fight Obama. Any of the four would be orders of magnitude better than Barack Obama and his dismal failures. Here's the GOPTracking results now after Super Tuesday.
2012 GOP Primaries | Date | Mitt Romney | Newt Gingrich | Rick Santorum | Ron Paul | Ron Huntsman | Rick Perry | Michele Bachman | Herman Cain | Totals | |||||||||||||||||||||
Votes | % | Del's | Win | Votes | % | Del's | Win | Votes | % | Del's | Win | Votes | % | Del's | Win | Votes | % | Del's | Votes | % | Del's | Votes | % | Del's | Votes | % | Del's | Votes | Del's | ||
Iowa | 1/3/2012 | 29,805 | 24.58% | 7 | - | 16,163 | 13.33% | 2 | - | 29,839 | 24.61% | 7 | 1 | 26,036 | 21.47% | 7 | - | 739 | 0.61% | 0 | 12,557 | 10.36% | 0 | 6,046 | 4.99% | 0 | 58 | 0.05% | 0 | 121,243 | 23 |
New Hamp | 1/10/2012 | 97,601 | 39.81% | 7 | 1 | 23,291 | 9.50% | 0 | - | 23,362 | 9.53% | 0 | - | 56,872 | 23.20% | 3 | - | 41,783 | 17.04% | 2 | 1,764 | 0.72% | 0 | 350 | 0.14% | 0 | 160 | 0.07% | 0 | 245,183 | 12 |
South Caro | 1/21/2012 | 168,152 | 27.86% | 2 | - | 244,133 | 40.44% | 23 | 1 | 102,492 | 16.98% | 0 | - | 78,362 | 12.98% | 0 | - | 1,173 | 0.19% | 0 | 2,534 | 0.42% | 0 | 491 | 0.08% | 0 | 6,326 | 1.05% | 0 | 603,663 | 25 |
Florida | 1/31/2012 | 776,059 | 46.44% | 50 | 2 | 534,040 | 31.96% | 0 | - | 223,208 | 13.36% | 0 | - | 117,410 | 7.03% | 0 | - | 6,199 | 0.37% | 0 | 6,773 | 0.41% | 0 | 3,967 | 0.24% | 0 | 3,492 | 0.21% | 0 | 1,671,148 | 50 |
Nevada | 2/4/2012 | 16,486 | 50.12% | 14 | 3 | 6,956 | 21.15% | 6 | - | 3,277 | 9.96% | 3 | - | 6,175 | 18.77% | 5 | - | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 32,894 | 28 |
Main | 2,190 | 39.65% | 9 | 4 | 349 | 6.32% | 0 | - | 989 | 17.90% | 3 | - | 1,996 | 36.13% | 7 | - | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 5,524 | 19 | |
Colorado | 2/7/2012 | 22,875 | 35.00% | 13 | - | 8,394 | 12.84% | 1 | - | 26,372 | 40.35% | 17 | 2 | 7,713 | 11.80% | 1 | - | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 65,354 | 32 |
Minnesota | 8,096 | 16.97% | 2 | - | 5,134 | 10.76% | 1 | - | 21,436 | 44.94% | 25 | 3 | 13,030 | 27.32% | 9 | - | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 47,696 | 14 | |
Missouri | 63,826 | 26.24% | 0 | - | 9,859 | 4.05% | 0 | - | 138,957 | 57.12% | 0 | 4 | 30,641 | 12.59% | 0 | - | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 243,283 | 0 | |
Arizona | 2/28/2012 | 216,805 | 47.99% | 29 | 5 | 74,110 | 16.40% | 0 | - | 122,088 | 27.03% | 0 | - | 38,753 | 8.58% | 0 | - | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 451,756 | 29 |
Michigan | 409,899 | 42.34% | 16 | 6 | 65,016 | 6.72% | 0 | - | 377,521 | 38.99% | 14 | - | 115,712 | 11.95% | 0 | - | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 968,148 | 30 | |
Washington | 3/3/2012 | 19,111 | 37.65% | 30 | 7 | 5,221 | 10.28% | 0 | - | 12,089 | 23.81% | 5 | - | 12,594 | 24.81% | 5 | - | 924 | 1.82% | 0 | 437 | 0.86% | 0 | 198 | 0.39% | 0 | 190 | 0.37% | 0 | 50,764 | 40 |
Wyoming | 822 | 38.99% | 10 | 8 | 165 | 7.83% | 1 | - | 673 | 31.93% | 9 | - | 439 | 20.83% | 6 | - | 3 | 0.14% | 0 | 2 | 0.09% | 0 | 2 | 0.09% | 0 | 2 | 0.09% | 0 | 2,108 | 26 | |
Alaska | 3/6/2012 | 4,285 | 32.52% | 8 | 9 | 1,856 | 14.09% | 3 | - | 3,860 | 29.30% | 7 | - | 3,175 | 24.10% | 6 | - | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 13,176 | 24 |
Georgia | S | 225,926 | 25.18% | 15 | - | 417,364 | 47.81% | 47 | 2 | 172,473 | 19.76% | 10 | - | 57,125 | 6.54% | 4 | - | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 872,888 | 76 |
Idaho | u | 27,514 | 61.61% | 32 | 10 | 940 | 2.11% | 0 | - | 8,115 | 18.17% | 0 | - | 8,086 | 18.11% | 0 | - | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 44,655 | 32 |
Massachusetts | p | 260,509 | 73.29% | 41 | 11 | 16,756 | 4.71% | 0 | - | 43,6114 | 12.27% | 0 | - | 34,575 | 9.735 | 0 | - | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 355,455 | 41 |
N. Dakota | e | 2,691 | 23.71% | 7 | - | 961 | 8.48% | 2 | - | 4,510 | 39.74% | 11 | 5 | 3,186 | 28.07% | 8 | - | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 11,349 | 28 |
Ohio | r | 453,927 | 38.93% | 32 | 12 | 174,606 | 14.78% | 10 | - | 441,908 | 37.42% | 20 | - | 110,633 | 9.37% | 4 | - | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 1,181,074 | 66 |
Oklahoma | 80,291 | 28.34% | 13 | - | 78,686 | 27.77% | 13 | - | 96,759 | 34.15% | 14 | 6 | 27,572 | 9.73% | 13 | - | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 283,208 | 43 | |
Tennessee | T | 153,889 | 28.46% | 18 | - | 132,142 | 24.43% | 12 | - | 204,978 | 37.90% | 26 | 7 | 49,782 | 9.21% | 2 | - | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 540,791 | 58 |
Vermont | u | 22,533 | 41.01% | 9 | 13 | 4,606 | 8.39% | 0 | - | 13,401 | 24.39% | 4 | - | 14,407 | 26.22% | 4 | - | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 54,949 | 17 |
Virginia | e | 158,050 | 59.52% | 44 | 14 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | - | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | - | 107,470 | 40.48% | 5 | - | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 265,520 | 49 |
Kansas | 3/10/2012 | 40 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Guam | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Virgin Islands | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alabama | 3/13/2012 | 50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Am Somoa | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hawaii | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mississippi | 40 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Missouri | 3/17/2012 | 52 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Puerto Rico | 3/18/2024 | 23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Illinois | 3/20/2012 | 69 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Louisiana | 3/24/2012 | 46 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DC | 4/3/2012 | 19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maryland | 37 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wisconsin | 42 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas | 155 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
At large Del's | 23 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
TOTALS | 3,221,342 | 39.61% | 431 | 14 | 1,820,751 | 22.39% | 124 | 2 | 2,071,921 | 25.48% | 183 | 7 | 921,744 | 11.33% | 78 | 0 | 50,821 | 1.13% | 2 | 24,067 | 0.53% | 0 | 11,054 | 0.25% | 0 | 10,228 | 0.23% | 0 | 8,131,928 | 814 | |
To Date % of | Delegates | Romney | 53% | Gingrich | 15% | Santorum | 21% | Paul | 10% | Huntsman | <1% | Perry | 0% | Bachman | 0% | Cain | 0% |
Romney will most probably at this point begin to pivot and focus more and more on going head to head with Obama and concentrating on finding a VP pick that will solidify as much of the party and base as he can for the general election.
Only by uniting, can Santorum and Gingrich now prevent Romney from having a real strong chance of winning the nomination outright. At this point I think the best they can hope for is a brokered convention...otherwise, mathematically, I believe Romney will ultimately eak out a win...probably at the 50-55% range of delegates needed. It seems at this point, for whatever reason, that Gingrich and Santorum are unwilling to unite, so they will continue to split the more conservative vote and allow Romney to win more contests and win a larger proportion of delegates in so doing. In the end, I will support any of the GOP candidates, whichever wins the nomination against the abject marxist ideolog, Obama, as any one of them will be far better than Barack Obama. Four more years of his horrific leadership and fundamental change could easily put this nation in a economic, debt, foreign policy, and energy hole we will have a very difficult and very painful time of digging our way out of...and at the cost of decades of heavy burden placed on our children and grandchildren.
If you have a mind, please ping others to this GOP Primary Tracker page.
America is at the crossroads of history and we must choose aright
(http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm)
Jeff Head
March 7, 2012
Randall Terry on the Democratic side and infinite percentage gain in delegates!
Since you don’t live in GA you can’t possibly know that the TV airwaves have been CLOGGED for two months with anti-Newt ads from Mitt’s superpac
Don’t you ever get dizzy from all that spinning?
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