Actually, Jedi, Romney has won over 50% in the following races, where he won the indicated number of delegates:
Nevada 50.12% - 14 delegates
Idaho 61.61% - 32 delegates
Mass 73.36% - 41 delegates
Virginia 59.52% - 43 delegates
Guam 100% - 9 delegates
N. Mariana Is. 83.03% - 9 delegates
Amer. Somia 81.43% - 9 delegates
Puerto Rico 88.01% - 12 delegates
Wa. DC 70.22% - 18 delegates
In addition, in the following states he won with a margin larger than Rick and Newt combined, with the delegates shown:
New Hamp 39.08% - 8 delegates
Florida 46.45% - 50 delegates
Main 38.45% - 11 delegates
Arizona 47.99% - 29 delegates
Washington 38.65% - 30 delegates
Vermont 40.84% - 9 delegates
Hawaii 45.38% - 15 delegates
Illinois 46.87 - 44 delegates
Maryland 49.43% - 37 delegates
Wisconsin 44.40% - 33 delegates
That’s 410 of his total delegates from 19 of his 24 wins.
Five wins and proportionality have given him the other 200+ delegates.
So we really cannot say Romney has hardly one a majority ever, or even that in most cases when he didn’t win by a majority that Rick and Newt combined would have beat him. Those are just the facts and the way folks in those states voted.
Newt still has a very outside chance and I will support him in it now that Rick dropped out...but if Romney wins, I will support him over Obama.
I notice you din’t include Michigan, in which Newt almost certainly handed the victory to Romney. If Romney had lost in his home state, and in a very blue state, it would have changed the Dynamic. Ohio was also a crucial state that Newt probably handed to Romney that could have significantly altered momentum.
Good luck with that Romney thing. It will be a cold day in Meca before I vote for that self-described “progressive”.
Jeff Head, I think I was accurate. I said Romney barely ever won over 50% in any states. You listed 4 states out of about 30 where he did. When I wrote that I was actually kind of assuming it was a couple more than that. So that’s a poor showing. I don’t care about Guam and those goofy islands, which certainly provide very little basis for predicting what happens in the next 20 states. The ones you list where he won under 50% simply show that if the non-Romneys decide to consolidate, he could do very badly in the next 20 states.
Oh, and one of those 4 states where he got over 50% was Virginia. We all know why that was able to happen there.