Posted on 03/24/2012 6:40:55 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA
Rick Santorum will win the Louisiana primary Saturday, CBS News projects. The victory is fresh evidence of the weakness of front-runner Mitt Romney, who is nonetheless increasingly likely to be the Republican who takes on President Obama in November.
According to exit polls, Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator and social conservative, did well among evangelicals, Catholics and those who identify themselves as "very conservative."
With 16 of 4,267 precincts reporting, Santorum had about 40 percent of the vote, while second place Romney had 31 percent. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was a distant third with 21 percent and Texas Rep. Ron Paul had just 5 percent of the counted vote.
Santorum also did well among those who consider the economy the most important issue of the election. Among those voters, Santorum had 44 percent support, compared to 33 percent support for Romney, according to CBS News exit polls. The economy was considered the top factor among Republican voters in Louisiana Saturday.
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Well there’s nothing left for me to say here.
Carry on.
LOL
Yet no R has won without SC.
Yes! On to Wisconsin! He’s going to have a toughter road up there because Romney is currently in the lead.
Gingrich is there for his ego. If he withdraws they’d stop talking about him like they don’t talk anymore about Bachman, Cain, and Perry.
He siphoned off enough votes that stopped Santorum from derailing Romney’s candidacy in MI (where Romney won by 3% of the vote and Gingrich got 7%) and again in OH where Romney won by less than 1% of the vote and Gingrich siphoned off nearly 14% of the vote. His “southern strategy” has been reduced to dust and he now still continues to be in the race. On Super Tuesday night Carl Cameron of FoxNews reported that Team Romney was simply “happy” to see Gingrich continue in the race. Now we all know why.
Go Santorum Go! He’s been outspent 20 to 1 in some cases, and conservative voters are flocking to him in droves and most important Gallup shows him beating Obama. (Psst. Don’t tell that to the Newties!)
I'd call that VICTORY!!
Is it an own primary then the dem wins
unfortunately, Gingrich did so badly he didn’t keep ROmney below 25%, so Romney will get delegates.
This was one of the states where it was actually HELPFUL to ahve two conservatives, except Gingrich just isn’t getting enough support anymore.
Open primary where Dems can support their loser ?
I thought if the winner got more than 50%, the candidate got all the delegates. If so, this is situation where Newt helped Romney gain delegates.
The margin of Santorum’s win is certainly not going to sit well with some of the faux Gingrich, closet Romney supporters here!
I think it is time for Rick to offer the bottom of the ticket to Newt and I think Newt should be big enough man to accept.
I also think it is time for Fox News, Drudge Report and the Party Establishment to start telling Romney to step aside for the good of the party.
I think it is time for Rick to offer the bottom of the ticket to Newt and I think Newt should be big enough man to accept.
I also think it is time for Fox News, Drudge Report and the Party Establishment to start telling Romney to step aside for the good of the party.
I think it is time for Rick to offer the bottom of the ticket to Newt and I think Newt should be big enough man to accept.
I also think it is time for Fox News, Drudge Report and the Party Establishment to start telling Romney to step aside for the good of the party.
LOL. I sure am surprised at the number of people here soft selling Milt these days.
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