Here are the latest results from the Wisconsin primary:
Mitt Romney 281,929 42.5% 27
Rick Santorum 249,877 37.7% 6
Ron Paul 77,597 11.7%
Newt Gingrich 40,264 6.1%
Others 13,533 2.0%
He didn’t get 50%... that is good news.
43.8% tea party vote voted AGAINST Romney.
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Once again, the straight vote (Santorum + Gingrich) beats the Slick Willard vote. Outrageous.
Thanks for the results.
Bet Romney wishes he did as well as Santorum did in Louisianna, when Santorum won by 25 points, I believe.
I wouldn’t call the results ‘narrowly’....especially in an ‘open primary’
From Michael Barone:
Santorum WI vote boosted by Democratic crossovers
Excerpt:
Wisconsin, like my home state of Michigan, doesn’t have party registration. Any registered voter can walk into the polls and vote in either the Republican or Democratic primary. In 2008 there were serious contests in both parties in Wisconsin. In 2012 there’s a serious contest only in the Republican primary. According to the exit poll, 30% of Republican primary voters identified themselves as Independents and 11% as Democrats. Among self-identified Democrats, Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney 37%-19%. That amounted to a Santorum popular vote majority of 2% of the total vote. You might want to keep that in mind in interpreting the statewide percentage. Among self-identifed Republicans, Romney won 51%-37%. That’s pretty conclusive about what Republicans want.