Even if Rick Santorum wins the popular vote, he can’t win the separate vote for convention delegeates.
54 slots in 18 congressional districts are up (2 in some, 3 in most, 4 in some)
Santorum is only running one delegate candidate at most in each district.
Romney will win I would guess 40 of the 54 delegate slots anyway by default regardless of how well Santorum does in the popular vote.
Rick is off his meds.
Saint Rick just lost all delegates in Puerto Rico, and as I understand it, Romney will win the majority of delegates in IL no matter what the “beauty contest” shows. So where does Rick rebound? LA — last time Huckabee won the primary there and got no delegates at all; a rigged state. The opportunities are indeed few for him and even fewer for Two-State Newt.
An Obama-Sanctimonious runoff would be the worst disaster for the GOP (and the nation as a whole) since 1964. Given all the whining Ricky has done over the Romney Super-Pac, he ain’t seen NOTHING until he sees what the Chicago Thuggery machine would do to him.
What really worries me, though, about such a November match-up is how this would affect the DOWN TICKET voting. If you thought 2009-2010 Congress was bad, imagine what it would be like with a pResident who doesn’t have to face the electorate again!
Can he really do it?...
Saint Rick should have borrowed and adjusted Reagan’s old line from the 1976 IL primary: “We are fighting hard, but it would be a miracle to win 35 percent in a state so liberal as Illinois.”