Posted by noprisoners49 (Diary)
Friday, April 13th at 5:30PM EDT
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Mitt Romney must win over 60% of all remaining hard delegates to secure the GOP nomination. Surprised?
19 states still need to be heard from, and of those states 869 hard delegates are available at the state and district level (discounting the 37 total delegates available between Indiana and Arkansas, which have proportionality rules only a democrat could love). State and committee GOP delegates number about 69, which I’m throwing into my calculations as a given for Romney.
Nevertheless, Romney still needs 663 delegates to reach that magic 1144 number.
Can he do it?
Of the 11,280,792 votes cast so far, Romney has accumulated 4,595,908 or only about 41%. Typically, Romney does not garner more than an average of 44% of the vote. Santorum averaged about 25% of the vote. Even if half of Santorum’s supporters vote for Mitt, this still does not give him the necessary 60+ % to secure the GOP nomination.
[All data from http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/republican_vote_count.html].
Thank you for the information.
It also looks like the base didn’t get the message that we have our nominee.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2872338/posts
Hmm, I don’t know about that math. While it’s true, Romney needs about 60% of the remaining delegates to win- actually its 57.6%, we Gingirch folks follow the number religiously- total votes cast so far is a moot point. He needs 493 more delegates. With Santorum out, you cant assume Gingrich is going to get them all...I think we all hope so- I know I do- but it’s not a correct assumption.