Nobody does proportional by county. Proportional usually has a state component, and a congressional district component.
Gingrich clearly lost the statewide delegate count, by 14%.
Romney won 7 congressional districts with over 50%, and won 17 more by plurality. GIngrich won 3, and came in 2nd in the other 24.
It's hard to apply the proportional rules because they lost half their delegates; if you gave them back their other half, and did 3 delegates per district, and 20 statewide, and 3 superdelegates adding to 98, you'd get the following:
Total Newt Mitt Statewide: 20 8 12 50% Dist: 21 21 Plural Dist: 54 18 36 Superdelega: 3 Totals: 95 26 72If you then cut this in half for their penalty, you have Gingrich with 13, Romney with 36.
Clearly better than the 49-0 split, but hardly anywhere CLOSE to being able to say Gingrich "won Florida".
Gingrich lost Florida badly enough that if you added EVERY Santorum vote to Gingrich, he would still lose statewide, and in 16 of the 25 districts. The combined Newt/Rick delegate count? Romney 57, Newt/Rick 41.
I bow to your superior knowledge of the delegates structure.
As much as I would like to have my facts straight and accurate, it is clear that I can be very wrong at times! LOL
Thanks for pointing this out!
Sen Jack