Posted on 02/28/2012 7:48:25 PM PST by Red Steel
DETROIT, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Mitt Romney was a double winner Tuesday, capturing the Michigan and Arizona Republican presidential primaries, results showed.
The Detroit Free Press declared Romney the victor over his GOP rivals in Michigan.
With about 74 percent of the precincts counted, Romney had 317,258 votes (41 percent) to Rick Santorum's 286,530 (37 percent), results posted by the Free Press showed. Ron Paul was third with 88,521 votes (12 percent) and Newt Gingrich followed with 50,726 votes (7 percent). Another 2 percent voted "uncommitted" and a handful of votes went to several other Republicans who are no longer contenders.
CNN called Romney the winner in Arizona. With 71 percent of the vote counted, Romney had 191,182 votes (48 percent) to Santorum's 101,232 votes (25 percent). Gingrich was third with 65,182 votes (16 percent), with Paul bringing up the rear with 33,505 votes (8 percent).
Exit polls in the two states Tuesday had indicated electability was the top priority among Republican primary voters.
Thirty-three percent of Michigan voters said beating President Obama is the top priority when selecting a GOP nominee, while 38 percent of voters in Arizona said the same, CBS News exit polls indicated.
Romney and Santorum slashed at each other ahead of the Michigan primary, which was too close to call. The contest in his home state is seen as crucial to Romney and his claim of the front-runner's mantle.
Despite the closeness of the Michigan race, the Post said Romney was expected to win about three times as many convention delegates as Santorum Tuesday. Arizona is a winner-take-all primary. Michigan's 30 delegates are allotted proportionately to the primary winner in each of the state's 14 congressional districts. Arizona's winner picks up all of its 29 delegates.
The Washington Post said Romney was expected to garner 45 delegates from both contests, with Santorum picking up about 15.
Gingrich and Paul were not expected to win any delegates, and did not seriously campaign in the two states.
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, and Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, have been shooting fireballs at each other in recent days.
Romney blasted Santorum's use of robocalls urging Democrats, who can vote GOP in Michigan, to vote for Santorum.
"I know why [President] Obama doesn't want me to face him but I just think it's outrageous and a terrible dirty trick at the last hour, by the way, late in the afternoon on the day before the election, maybe hoping no one would notice, they start sending out calls to Democrats, union members telling them to go into the Republican primary and vote against Mitt Romney," Romney told Fox News.
"This is a new low for his campaign and that's saying something," he added.
Santorum told Fox News Monday night he's just trying to attract the Democratic voters he'll need in November.
"When he runs a robocall of my voice from four years ago saying good things about him, that's not a low moment, and when I run a call basically saying, calling Democrats that are eligible to vote here, to vote for us, that's a low?" he said.
I understand.
Your bitterness at who you are in real life is expressed here.
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You over-estimate intelligence of American voters.
47% do not pay federal income tax.
45 million are getting free food stamps.
20 million are collecting disability checks.
95% of blacks voted for 0Bama and 90%+ will do so again.
0Bama just told Hispanics, he has 5 more years to get them
everything they want..wink wink.
Oh yes, 0Bama will be tough to beat in 2012.
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Just because 47% of American voters don’t pay federal income tax, let’s not falsely assume they’re ALL going to pull the lever for Obama. Bear in mind, many of these folks not paying federal income tax are retired and living off savings and investments, while others are frustrated with the current economy and unable to find adequate work. I would also argue that many of the 45 million getting free food stamps (as pathetically sad as that statistic is) are not particularly engaged in politics and thus have no inclination to go to the polls on Election Day.
I’m not saying a victory over Obama in November is going to come easy (especially given the self-destructive abject IDIOTS currently running the Republican Party), but I just don’t see how a voting MAJORITY is simply going to overlook the TREMENDOUS assault Obama has inflicted on the economy, the private sector and our personal liberties and just give the Marxist another four years to continue doing more of the same crap.
Your "Gibberish to English" translator is not working.
Here’s a thought.
Maybe our candidates ought to talk about what we’re concerned about. You know, the economy, our exploding debt, jobs, inflation up the wazoo, and did I mention the economy and jobs?
But, instead, we got Preacher-man (more holy than thou), talking about abortion, contreception, abortion, gay marriage, abortion... and did I mention abortion?
Santorum took his 10 minutes of fame and turned it into a sermon instead of an election campaign. And that’s all on him, not on those that point it out.
Anymore than it’s the little boy’s fault for pointing out that the King has no clothes.
Biggest problem with Romney as president, even assuming the best that he’s simply a finger-in-the-wind guy and not an ideological liberal, would be how fast he’d go to the left if the Democrats take Congress. If you get an unenthusiastic Republican base in 2014, likely since Romney is likely to be disappointing, then the Democrats could win the Congress like they did in 2006. At that point Romney would do what he did in Taxachusetts, pass everything the Democrats want and claim that “his hands were tied” and he did the best he could with the cards he was dealt. Even worse, an even more depressed base causes Romney to lose the reelection in 2016, like they did in 2008, possibly even to Obama coming back to try again, and that Democrat comes into office with a ready-made far-left Congress with a huge mandate from the public, who has shown an incredible lack of enthusiasm for the Republican party thanks to Romney.
Now, you see, if you get that candidate... *I* won’t vote for him. So it’s a wash.
You ought to be looking for a candidate that is religious and fiscally sound.
For anything else will lose one side of the party (or the other).
WHATEVER Romney may say in the way of 2012 campaign lies, he is a gun grabber, a baby killer, an enemy of marriage, a spoiled trust fund baby, as much of a draft dodger as Slick Willy and Obozo, a job killer, an upper class money grubber and an elitist. He DOES NOT GET MY VOTE or the vote of anyone I can influence. I don't care WHO he chooses for VP except insofar as any conservative accepting the nomination under the Mittwit ceases immediately and permanently to be credibly conservative.
Romney should go for ideological consistency and name Olympia Snowe or Susan Collins.
No matter WHOM he chooses, keep the yard signs, the bumper stickers and the Hope and Change. Rule or ruin until we get our way.
Santorum hasn’t “begun” to slip, he has slipped, and he has no chance to recover. If people stick with Santorum hoping he can recover on his own intrinsic merits, he won’t. He hasn’t won any of these states on his own intrinsic merits, only by fortuitous external factors (except for Iowa which he won by personally knocking on every door in Iowa). Santorum only won states because the other candidates didn’t compete, because they killed each other’s reputations with negative ads, or because contraception briefly became the #1 national issue, something Santorum had uniquely spent his career carving out territory on. Santorum’s moment in the sun is gone, dead, done and over.
His supporters have two choices...let his decline go very slowly, splitting the vote between Newt and Rick and giving Mitt wins in states he might not have a ghost of a chance in in a 2-man race, or very quickly drop Rick like a hot potato and jump to Newt. When voters build up Newt like they did in SC, he can soar like no other candidate (raising turnout 35% when all these other states were flat or dropped in turnout), because Newt is INTRINSICALLY the best candidate because of what’s inside his head and his heart. Newt can be hurt by external factors like anyone, but he never needs external factors in order to boost him up the way Santorum did, because Newt has the Right Stuff. You back Newt, and you back a winner. You back Rick, and you back a loser. You back Mitt, and you back a RINO.
Despite Rick’s best efforts for almost an entire month while Newt took time off to raise money, Rick still hasn’t accumulated as many popular votes as Newt has.
bttt
Romney's choices for SCOTUS would be every bit as bad as Obozo's. Therefore, this IS NOT about SCOTUS, at least not as you imagine. If Romney is nominated, then babies will continue to be enthusiastically slaughtered and our tax money will be used to pay for it, marriage will cease to be a meaningful institution or a coherent concept in our society as either candidate will gleefully recognize rump-ranging as "marriage" complete with tax-payer funded perks, either candidate will grab guns as soon as one more nominee of EITHER of them goes to SCOTUS to replace Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito or even Sandra Day O'Kennedy.
I joined FR a LOT LONGER AGO than a few days ago and DNA.2012 is absolutely right and on this issue quite wise as you are not. This has been a recurring issue for most of 44 years and my head does not hurt except over quislings posing as conservatives and willing to sell out the movement for the false promise of a mess of pottage.
You would think 0Bama will be so much easier to defeat in 2012 compared to 2008. Anybody with any sense of intelligence can see his record so far. But I still expect a hard fought and very close election in November. You and me both will be shocked to see how many people will vote for this egotistic know nothing elitist who has never run anything before being anointed to the highest office.
Excellent points.
“You ought to be looking for a candidate that is religious and fiscally sound.”
That would be Newt by far! Santorum’s spending record in congress fails to reassure me.
Question -
how do you see Newt earning 50+ percent of the overall delegates.
I want you to explain this to me. What is his road to the nomination - since Santorum has won in the midwest and Mitt has won in the mountain states and in the north east.
Are you telling me that Newt is going to win GA, TN, AL, LA, OK, etc - and that is going to win him enough to get the nomination?
What’s the path?
Thank you.
You could’nt be more right about Eastern block countries. Also look at modern day Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain. All are drowning in debt and low productivity. My daughter is studying as foreign exchange student in Spain for a semester and she just had a 10 day break after 3 weeks of school!
Yep.
But, as you see, many here give only lip-service to sound fiscal principles and to small-government ideals.
All that matters is their interpretation of what they want the Lord’s word to be. And to foist it onto everyone.
Exactly like Obama, who also believes he’s doing the right and moral things to do. (Of course, his right and moral thing to do... is to destroy this great nation of ours.)
Emperor Obama Thanks you for your support. All he needs is one more SCOTUS pick!
He'll probably get at least TWO more SCOTUS picks, plus ObamaCare will go into full effect in 2014. God help us.
No way in hell will I be sitting home pouting this November.
Send his skinny butt and his freakin' czars back to Chicago!
Popular vote counts:
Gingrich - 977,272
Santorum - 929,807
However - there’s still 5 percent outstanding in Michigan and 20 percent outstanding in Arizona.
Taking those into account, that is 25k more Santorum votes in Arizona and 15k more Santorum votes in Michigan. Gingrich gets another 12k in Arizona and 3K in Michigan
So that brings us to:
Gingrich 992,272
Santorum 969,807.
So Gingrich has a 20k lead on Santorum in the popular vote heading into Washington.
Will you switch your support to Santorum when Santorum passes Newt in Washington?
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