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LOL! Dream on. The delegate count is as follows, and remains the official, hard count.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/republican_delegate_count.html

After Wisconsin and all the other NE states in April, it will be pretty much over. Except of course, your fantasy candidate scoring guild. In addition to that, if what you claim were actually true, we would be seeing this in every headline and News Report in the nation.

Now, back to the real cruel world......

Incorrect. The delegate counts on that and other pages are estimates. Much of the actual selection process has not yet happened. The Newt followers were harping on this for a good while, until they saw it gained no traction for their man. Florida and Arizona are likely to end up having to go proportional; thank you Newt.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2865717/posts .--------- Santorum details new delegate math .------------------------ The Examiner ^ | 28 Mar 12 | Byron York Posted on Thursday, March 29, 2012 9:03:37 PM by xzins ------------------- As he struggles to keep up with frontrunner Mitt Romney and parries calls for him to drop out of the Republican presidential race, Rick Santorum has said in recent weeks that he has actually won more delegates than some media counts show. Those counts, Santorum says, are not taking into account Republican party rules, as well as the state-level meetings that actually determine how many delegates go to each candidate. ."Here's one of the things that I can tell you I didn't know," Santorum told a small group of reporters at a breakfast in Washington Monday. "Every single state is different. Every state. Every single state is different. It's different on how you get on the ballot. It's different on their structure, how they allocate delegates, whether they are bound, whether they are unbound, when they're committed, how long they committed, how they're selected. Our math is actually based on the reality of what's going on in the states." Now, the Santorum campaign is providing some numbers to flesh out the candidate's claims. In a long conversation Wednesday evening, John Yob, the campaign's national and state convention director, pointed out that many high-profile primaries have been little more than beauty contests, What accounts for the differences? First, the Santorum campaign believes that delegates from Florida and Arizona will ultimately be awarded proportionately, and not as winner-take-all contests. The AP account currently gives Romney all 50 Florida delegates and all 29 Arizona delegates. Santorum and Yob point to a recent article by Morton Blackwell, the longtime conservative activist and member of the Republican National Committee rules committee, suggesting that if the race is close, it is likely the party convention in Tampa this summer will award Florida and Arizona delegates proportionately. The second reason the Santorum campaign cites for its more favorable delegate total is party conventions now taking place in Washington State, Missouri, Iowa, and other states. etc. __________________________________ (((((((sorry - I beginner, promise wont do it again)