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I just updated and added the following to my GOP Primary Tracker Site:

2012 GOP PRIMARY CAMPAIGN TRACKER
JLHNews, March 1, 2012

I have been keeping my own record of the 2012 GOP Primary results, adding each primary as it occurs and I have created an html/internet version which I have posted here for others to see and track.

After the Feb 7, 2012 primaries which saw Rick Santorum sweep all three and establish himself as the top tier candidate de jour to challenge Mitt Romney, all eyes were on the February 28 primaries in Michigan (Romney's native state), and in Arizona. Arizona was winner take all, and Michigan was proportional. Earlier Romney was expected to easily win Michigan, but after Santorum's February 7th wins, he surged to a double digit lead in Michigan, trailing badly in Arizona. Many analysts felt that a loss in Michigan would strongly weaken Romney and establish Santorum for a big Super Tuesday. Romney won the caucus in Maine before Feb 28th.

Romney fought back and coupled with a poor debate showing and gaffes by Santorum, his lead in Michigan dwindled. Romney ended up winning both. In Michigan he won by about 3 1/2% and in Arizona he won by over 20%. All of Arisona's 29 delegates went to Romney. He had Santorum split 30 delegates in Michigan. Newt Gingrich did not really contest either Arizona or Michigan. He's campaigning in Georgia, a must win for him, and conducting a comeback strategy for super Tuesday involving Georgia, Tennessee and Oklahoma. By the way, Romney also won Wyoming, meaning he has won the last four contests.

In Michigan we saw again that Santorum's and Gingrich's votes combined defeat Romney. While in Arizona, Florida and Nevada Romney's lead was too great to allow it, still, in other contests, a united strong conservative candidate would have beat him casuing the delegate count to be much closer. As it is, Romney has won 7 of the 12 races with 181 delegates. Rick Santorum has won four contests for 61 delegates. Newt Gingrich has won one for 39 delegates. Ron Paul has not one any but has 33 delegates.

Super Tuesday, March 6th will see ten states vote. Romeny is expected to win Mass (his home state), Vermont, Virginia (Gingrich and Santorum are not on that ballot), and Idaho. He wants to win Ohio, a critical swing state in November. Santorum is challenging him there and the race is close. Santorum is also battling Newt for Tennessee and Oklahoma, and Newt is expected to win Georgia (his home state) and battle for Tennessee and Oklahoma based on his southern strategy. Alaska is up for grabs. The proportionality of these races means that each candidate will win some delegates.

Nonetheless, if Romney wins Mass, Vermont, Virginia, Idaho, and Ohio (fully half of the states on Super Tuesday) and Gingrich and Santorum split the rest, Romney will clearly be in the driver's seat and be positioned for a chance to win the nomination outright. On the other hand, if a united Santorum and Gingrich vote would beat Romney in some states, then a clear strategy for either Gingrich or Santorum to throw in with the other will be the only path to stop Romney and have a stronger conservative potentially win the nomination.

In my opinion, the tough primary is strengthening the candidates, keeping the GOP message in the news (despite attacks on each other), and preparing the nominee to fight Obama. Any of the four would be orders of magnitude better than Barack Obama and his dimsal failures. So, here's the table as of March 1st, 2012. I have it going out through the Primary in Texas, but will extend it if necessary.

2012 GOP Presidential Primary Season Tracker (including caucuses) - LAST UPDATE: March 1, 2012

2012 GOP Primaries	Date	Mitt Romney				Newt Gingrich				Rick Santorum				Ron Paul				Ron Huntsman			Rick Perry			Michele Bachman			Herman Cain			Totals
2012 GOP Primaries	Date	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%		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	0.00%	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	0.00%	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	0.00%	0	65,354	32
Minnesota		8,096	16.97%	2		5,134	10.76%	2		21,436	44.94%	6	3	13,030	27.32%	4		0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%		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	0.00%	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		0.00%	0		0.00%		0	0.00%		451,756	29
Michigan		409,899	42.34%	15	6	65,016	6.72%	0		377,521	38.99%	15		115,712	11.95%	0		0	0.00%	0		0.00%	0		0.00%		0	0.00%		968,148	30
Washington	3/3/2012																														0
Wyoming		822	38.99%	10	7	165	7.83%	1		673	31.93%	9		439	20.83%	6		3	0.14%		2	0.09%		2	0.09%		2	0.09%		2,108	26
Alaska	3/6/2012																														27
Georgia	S																														76
Idaho	u																														32
Massachusetts	p																														41
North Dakota	e																														28
Ohio	r																														66
Oklahoma																															43
Tennessee	T																														58
Vermont	u																														17
Virginia	e																														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					22
TOTALS		1,812,616	40.66%	181	7	987,610	22.15%	39	1	1,070,214	24.01%	61	4	493,139	11.06%	33	0	49,897	1.12%	2	23,630	0.53%	0	10,856	0.24%	0	10,038	0.23%	0	4,458,000	1450

Right now, Santorum has my vote here in Idaho. Though all of them have their problems, Santorum reflects my own positons and values more closely, though I will support any of these GOP candidates, whichever wins the nomination against the abject marxist ideolog, Obama.

Newt has a lot of great idaes and excites people. Romney will probably draw more independents and moderates and knows economic issues from the private sector standpoint better than any other. Paul is very constitutional in his approach to money and economics and foreign policy, but his achillies heel for me is his stance on Iran where he would in essence ignore their nuclear efforts and allow them to proceed unhindered. Santorum has waged a campaign of hard work and faith. He's not "stellar" and does not project a lot of glitter...but he's very steady.

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 1, 2012