Romney Wins 6 States, Including Ohio; Santorum takes 3; Gingrich Nabs Georgia

CNN ^ | Wed March 7, 2012 | Paul Steinhauser and Tom Cohen

[BarnacleCenturion]

Columbus, Ohio (CNN) -- Mitt Romney won six Super Tuesday states including the big prize of Ohio, while Rick Santorum took three states and Newt Gingrich grabbed a vital triumph in Georgia, CNN projected.

Romney was projected early Wednesday to win Alaska's caucuses, the last to tally votes among the 10 states with delegates up for grabs.

[Brown Deer]

How did he do in OK?

it was a three way tie, plus or minus one delegate.

How did he do in TN?

Santorum put all his efforts into Ohio and Tennessee, but won only one of them. Gingrich didn't put much effort into them, although he got several delegates from Tennessee.

Gingrich had a huge win in GA, as planned and Santorum got virtually nothing there, nor did he have any huge wins.

His candidacy is a joke...

Kind of like you?

[pgkdan]

A brokered convention would start a protest like no other, this party has ever seen. We would have a workable 3rd party take shape immediately. (The official “Tea Party”)

Yeah, right. And barak obama would have 4 more years to destroy this country.

[Brown Deer]

Poll after Poll shows Gingrich Santorum support going to Santorum Gingrich...

[Brown Deer]

and the final ended up in the high 60%

No, wrong again. I told you Ron Paul got over 40% of the votes.

[pgkdan]

ID - I find it hard to believe that Santo/Newt were this week in ID. I thought combined the could capture the delgates, but combined they were 11% of the vote? WTF? Didn’t know ID was so heavily Mormon in Boise and Pocatello.

ID's about 29% mormon and it seems they all toe the line...like 100%!

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

If Santorum wins, you can guarantee another 4 years of Obama anyway. But in all reality, Santorum failed to organize soon enough and can't possibly win enough delegates to even come close to the nomination. And you seem like a person who should know that.

[pgkdan]

Not true. Gingrich is almost no one’s second choice. Do some research.

[Brown Deer]

It must suck to be as stupid as you are.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

What is your point? Paul lost.......Is this some kind of contest?

[LUV W]

Palin needs to quit walking the fence and put her support behind a candidate. It would certainly help the one she picks....and I don’t think it would be Myth!

Coy is not cute when it’s not helpful.

[RacerX1128]

Was watching Fox last night (which I hardly do anymore). Romney and his wife were giving a big sappy victory speech in MA while to the right the graphics were indicating Santorum ahead in OK, OH, N Dak, etc. Gingrich winning Georgia.

I was thinking to myself. Now, I know why I hardly ever watch Fox.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Palin and Cain both, voted for Newt yesterday.

[LUV W]

Keep praying. Our country can’t survive 4 more years of the marxist.

Oh! Hi! :)

[napscoordinator]

Newt is looking at a BIG gain next week! So maybe little Ricky should drop out?

Not. Alabama and Mississippi will give out delegates like this in TOTAL

1st place gets 32 delegates
2nd place gets 28 delegates
3rd place gets 23 delegates

That is hardly enough for Newt to say anything. Even 3rd place gets quite a few delegates. That was all over the news yesterday showing that the next two states are not going to change anything regardless of who wins.

[Brown Deer]

What is your point?

What YOU posted was,
If what you say were true, then Ron Paul would have easily won VA, since all of the Santorum and Newt voters were free to stop Romney. But Romney won over 70% of the vote.

In fact, there are surveys out there that indicate that if either Newt or Santorum drop out, most of those votes would go to Romney.

The fact is, with help of fraud, Romney was supposed to easily win Virginia, and you tried to imply over and over again, that he did easily win Virginia. But he didn't.

The fact is, if one of those two dropped out, the majority of the votes would be going to the other, not Romney.

Ron Paul screwed up. If had been smart like Gingrich, he could have won Virginia and hurt Romney big.

[Brown Deer]

wrong.

[MachIV]

NOT a RINO, is the answer.

[LUV W]

She did, but she is going to have to rally for her candidate not just send a note that she voted!

Newt and Rick are tied at 108 delegates right now. That’s interesting!

[Brown Deer]

That was all over the news yesterday showing that the next two states are not going to change anything regardless of who wins.

don't believe everything you read in the news.

Tuesday 13 March 2012: 47 of 50 of Alabama's delegates to the Republican National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders in today's Alabama Presidential Primary.

• 21 district delegates are allocated to presidential contenders, "winner-take-most", based on the results of the primary in each congressional district. Each of the 7 congressional districts is assigned 3 National Convention delegates.
  • If a candidate receives a majority of the vote (more than 50%) or if only one candidate receives 20% or more of the vote, that candidate is allocated all 3 of the district's delegates.
  • If no candidate receives a majority of the vote and more than 1 candidate receives 20% or more of the vote, the candidate with the most votes is allocated 2 delegates and the candidate with the next highest number of votes is allocated 1 delegate.
  • If no candidate receives 20% of the vote, the 3 district delegates are proportionally allocated to the presidential contenders. See the rounding rules below.
• 26 at-large delegates are allocated to presidential contenders, "winner-take-most", based on the statewide results of the primary.
  • If a candidate receives a majority of the vote (more than 50%) or if only one candidate receives 20% or more of the vote, that candidate is allocated all of the 26 at-large delegates.
  • If no candidate receives a majority of the vote and more than 1 candidate receives 20% or more of the vote, the 26 at-large delegates are to be proportionally allocated to the presidential contenders to those candidates receiving 20% or more the vote. See the rounding rules below.
  • If no candidate receives 20% of the vote, the 26 at-large delegates are proportionally allocated to the presidential contenders. See the rounding rules below.
• Proportional allocation rounding: Round the delegate allocations to the nearest whole number. If the rounding allocates too few delegates, the candidate with the most votes receives the remaining delegate(s). If the rounding allocates too many delegates, the candidate receiving the fewest votes looses as many delegates as necessary.

In addition, 3 party leaders, the National Committeeman, the National Committeewoman, and the chairman of the Alabama's Republican Party, will attend the convention as unpledged delegates by virtue of their position.

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Tuesday 13 March 2012: 37 of 40 of Mississippi's delegates to the Republican National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders in today's Mississippi Presidential Primary.

• 12 district delegates are bound to presidential contenders based on the primary results in each of the 4 congressional districts: each congressional district is assigned 3 National Convention delegates. [Rule 3]
  • If one candidate receives a majority (more than 50%) of the vote in a Congressional District, that candidate is allocated all 3 delegates.
  • Otherwise, each presidential candidate receiving 15% or more of the vote in that District is proportionally allocated delegates based on their percentage of the vote total of all candidates who met the 15% threshold.
• 25 at-large delegates (10 base at-large delegates plus 15 bonus delegates) are bound to presidential contenders based on the statewide primary vote. [Rule 4]
  • If one candidate receives a majority (more than 50%) of the statewide vote, that candidate is allocated all 25 at-large delegates.
  • Otherwise, each presidential candidate receiving 15% or more of the statewide vote is proportionally allocated delegates based on their percentage of the vote total of all candidates who met the 15% threshold.

Proportional allocation and rounding details: Round fractional proportions of a delegate to the nearest whole number. If rounding results in too few delegates being allocated, the candidate recieving the greatest number of votes receives an additional delegate. If rounding results in too many delegates being allocated, the candidate recieving the least number of votes looses a delegate.

National Convention delegates are bound until released by their candidate. [Rules 8 and 9]

In addition, 3 party leaders, the National Committeeman, the National Committeewoman, and the chairman of the Mississippi's Republican Party, will attend the convention as unpledged delegates by virtue of their position. [Rule 5]

Reference: Resolution Of The State Executive Committee Of The Mississippi Republican Party (June 21, 2007)

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In addition to these two primaries next week, are another five Caucuses.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Stop splitting hairs, and get on with the real task at hand.

[Brown Deer]

splitting hairs? LMAO!
not even close - OVER 70% and under 60% is a huge difference!
my point was that your point was BS.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Sorry, but that is not correct. Newt did well with Georgia. But the delegate count is 404 Romney, 161 Santorum, 105 Newt, 61 Paul.

We will see if Newt gained any traction in the coming states. But it is not looking very good at the moment.

Romney is steadily pulling away from the both of them and has more delegates than the two combined. Organization is proving to be everything, again.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Go bite somebody else’s ankles little dog!

[pgkdan]

Gee...that certainly put me in my place! LOL@U!

[LUV W]

Thank you for the correction. I must have picked up some older numbers.

I sure don’t want Myth to win, but it’s getting a bit depressing right now for me.

[pgkdan]

But in all reality, Santorum failed to organize soon enough and can't possibly win enough delegates to even come close to the nomination

I'll agree that Santorum got off to a slow start. He had next to no money and friends and family as staff. His staff was really that bad. But that was then. He's running much stronger now and while I'll agree that the delegate math going forward is tough...it's not insurmountable.

Newt and Rick need to reach an accomodation. I don't think a brokered convention will help anyone but the Rovians and the rest of the gop establishment. We need to stop Romney and then obama.

[Brown Deer]

We will see if Newt gained any traction in the coming states. But it is not looking very good at the moment.

Actually he had the biggest percentage gain in delegates of all four candidates yesterday.

• Gingrich +218%
• Romney +102%
• Santorum +91%
• Paul +84%

[napscoordinator]

Thanks. That is interesting. One problem is that very few states have given a candidate 50 percent of the vote which could be why the delegates will be split a bit closer for the 3 placed candidates. I guess we will find out next Tuesday. Thank you for the information. I read it and hope they change the way they allocate delegates next round. I would like it to be win the state, win all the delegates. This reminds me of how “dumbed down” children’s sports have gotten where they have to give every competitor a prize instead of how it used to be where only the winner gets a prize. I believe that if you win the state, you get all the delegates. That is the way conservatives should feel.

[manc]

same here, I hardly ever watch FOX , the air head Megyn Kelly had her pal Sally Kohn or Khon on who is a Soros media matters homosexual cross dressing activist who has denounced America and Capitalism.
She was then hired by FOX, what on earth were FOX thinking just like that awful show called the five.
I tried to watch that show when it first came on but after a couple of weeks I couldn’t take it anymore.

All the other shows have gone to crap as well and Hannity has to be the biggest fraud on that network.

Infact I just flick through the news channels now.

I’ve noticed many on here have given up on FOX and I wonder if their ratings have gone down in the last year.

[riverdawg]

pgkdan is correct. Gingrich finished 3rd or 4th everywhere outside of Georgia on Super Tuesday.

[Brown Deer]

Certain states are also getting many more delegates than you would think. If they were more valuable to the Republican candidate in the last election, then they get additional delegates.

There was a big mistake made in Virginia. Both Gingrich and Santorum should have spent money to help get votes to Ron Paul. In the last primary, there were 489,000 votes, but only 265,000 votes yesterday - a difference of 224,000. If Ron Paul could of gotten only 1/4 of those non-votes, he would have carried Virginia and Romney would have 10% fewer delegates.

[Brown Deer]

that's not what he said. Where someone finished in total votes, does not relate to who someone would vote for if another candidate drops out. But in any case, as of now Gingrich has the momentum...

Super Tuesday gains in delegates:

• Gingrich +218%
• Romney +102%
• Santorum +91%
• Paul +84%

[EGPWS]

We'll survive however the cleanup will be quite intense.

It's sad that with the opportunities that we have the republican elitists are able to push a socialist rino on us.

Hi : )

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Note the Hard totals:

Not sure how this running total will line up (formatting) but it can be found here:

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/R

GOP PRIMARY: Popular Vote - — Soft Pledged –- - Soft Unpledged – — Soft Total –- - Hard Total

Mitt Romney: ….3,242,740, 39.20% …(314)17.36% …(72)15.09% …(386)16.89% ….(302)13.21%

Rick Santorum: 2,087,454, 25.23% ….(92) 5.09% ….(67)14.05% ….(159) 6.96% ….(79)3.46%

Newt Gingrich: 1,818,548, 21.98% .....(107)5.91% .…...(13) 2.73%...(120)5.25% ….(96)4.20%

Ron Paul: ……….,927,348, 11.21% ...…(35)1.93%.......(38)7.97%......(73)3.19% …..(16)0.70%

[Brown Deer]

Candidate	Popular Vote	Delegate Votes
		Soft Pledged	Soft Unpledged	Soft Total	Hard Total
Romney, Mitt	3,242,740  39.20%	314  17.36%	72  15.09%	386  16.89%	302  13.21%
Santorum, Rick	2,087,454  25.23%	92   5.09%	67  14.05%	159   6.96%	79   3.46%
Gingrich, Newt	1,818,548  21.98%	107   5.91%	13   2.73%	120   5.25%	96   4.20%
Paul, Ron	927,348  11.21%	35   1.93%	38   7.97%	73   3.19%	16   0.70%

[Cincinatus' Wife]

WOW!

Thank YOU very MUCH!

Looks like Newt is on par or ahead of Rick.

[LUV W]

We’re gonna have to push back...and HARD! :)

[cdchik123]

not true. polls don’t necessarily show all of santoru’s supporters going to newt...

[Red Steel]

like Newt is on par or ahead of Rick.

Yup, because Newt did succeed on Super Tuesday in getting more delegates [total] than Mittens and Santorum where he campaigned the most, which was Georgia, Tennessee, and Oklahoma.

Right now, Newt's message is not resonating outside the states where he has not put much of a campaign effort like Santo and Myth, but hopefully that will change.

[Brown Deer]

you’re correct. But I never said anything like what you have tried to imply. Did I?

[butterdezillion]

I think it was in “The Hobbit” where Bilbo got the trolls to turn into stone by egging them on to argue about how to cook him once he was dead. Because they were arguing amongst each other they didn’t notice that the sun was coming up.

The sun is coming up, and unless both Newt and Rick really comprehend what that means, we will lose our only chance at being able to vote for somebody who DOESN’T believe the government can force churches to violate their own beliefs. And we may well end up with another 4 years of the Muslim-ururper-in-chief who is diligently working with communists and Islamists the world over to destroy this nation from within.

We can’t afford to let pride and politics distract us from the real battle for this nation’s survival.

[Kazan]

Buddy Roemer has as good a chance as Newt of being President.

It's Santorum or Romney. A vote for Newt is a vote for Romney at this point.

[trappedincanuckistan]

True conservatives that realize the biggest threat to freedom is the big government Rick Santorum helped build.

[Kazan]

If Newt gets out and ALL of Romney’s guns are turned on Rick

Who else other than Santorum do you think Romney's sleaze machine targeted in Michigan and Ohio? And, Santorum still nearly won both states. Santorum only lost Ohio because of votes going to Gingrich.

When the Romney sleaze machine was turned loose on Newt in Florida, he got buried.

[trappedincanuckistan]

161 Santorum.

Wrong. Santorum has 161 - any unbound delegates the establishment deems necessary to put Romney over the top

[Brown Deer]

Super Tuesday gains in delegates:

• Gingrich +218%
• Romney +102%
• Santorum +91%
• Paul +84%

After next week, Santorum is done.

[Jeff Head]

Here's my analysis from my latest update to my GOP Primary Tracker Site:

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Super Tuesday is now over. 10 States held primaries or caucuses. Mitt Romney won 6 of the 10. Rick Santorum won 3 of the 10, and Newt Gingrich one 1 of 10, his home state of Georgia.. A majority was won by a single candidate in only tree of the states. All by Mitt Romney with Mass at 72%, Idaho at 62% and Virginia at 60%. Of the total of 23 contests held to date, Romney has won an absolute majority 4 times, adding Nevada to the above at just over 50%. The only other majority win was Santorum in Missouri with 57%. To date, Romney has won 14 contests, Santorum has won 7 contests, and Newt Gingrich has won 2 contests. Ron Paul has not won any.

In the popular vote, to date Romney leads with over 3.2 million votes which is right at 40%. Santorum is second with 2 million votes or 26% , Gingrich is third with 1.8 million votes or 22% and Ron Paul is fourth with 900 thousand votes or 11%.

The effectiveness of Romney's campaign however, can be measured in his delegate count. Although he has only one 40% of the popular vote, this has translated to date into 431 delgates or 54% of the total delegates awarded to date. Santorum follows with 176 delegates or 21%, Gingrich with 126 or 15% and Paul with 79 delegates or 10%. At this rate, Romney has a good chance of winning the delegates needed to clinch the nomination before the convention, but it will go on until late in the season.

So, after Santorum's three win in February, Romney bounced back with five straight wins. On March 6th, Super Tuesday, Romney added six more wins, Santorum three more, and Gingrich one more. Romney is estatic about coming from behind and winning Ohio, though it was a near thing. Because of the closeness of the Ohio votes, and his other three wins, Santorum vows to stay in. Gingrich because of his strong win in his home state of Georgia also vows to stay in, and there was never any question, even with no wins, that Ron Paul will stay in on principle.

In my opinion, the tough primary season, despite pundents prognostications, continues to strengthen the candidates, keeping the GOP message at the top of the news cycle, and preparing the nominee to fight Obama. Any of the four would be orders of magnitude better than Barack Obama and his dismal failures. Here's the GOPTracking results now after Super Tuesday.

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2012 GOP Presidential Primary Season Tracker (including caucuses) - LAST UPDATE: March 7, 2012

2012 GOP Primaries	Date	Mitt Romney				Newt Gingrich				Rick Santorum				Ron Paul				Ron Huntsman			Rick Perry			Michele Bachman			Herman Cain			Totals
		Votes	%	Del's	Win	Votes	%	Del's	Win	Votes	%	Del's	Win	Votes	%	Del's	Win	Votes	%	Del's	Votes	%	Del's	Votes	%	Del's	Votes	%	Del's	Votes	Del's
Iowa	1/3/2012	29,805	24.58%	7	-	16,163	13.33%	2	-	29,839	24.61%	7	1	26,036	21.47%	7	-	739	0.61%	0	12,557	10.36%	0	6,046	4.99%	0	58	0.05%	0	121,243	23
New Hamp	1/10/2012	97,601	39.81%	7	1	23,291	9.50%	0	-	23,362	9.53%	0	-	56,872	23.20%	3	-	41,783	17.04%	2	1,764	0.72%	0	350	0.14%	0	160	0.07%	0	245,183	12
South Caro	1/21/2012	168,152	27.86%	2	-	244,133	40.44%	23	1	102,492	16.98%	0	-	78,362	12.98%	0	-	1,173	0.19%	0	2,534	0.42%	0	491	0.08%	0	6,326	1.05%	0	603,663	25
Florida	1/31/2012	776,059	46.44%	50	2	534,040	31.96%	0	-	223,208	13.36%	0	-	117,410	7.03%	0	-	6,199	0.37%	0	6,773	0.41%	0	3,967	0.24%	0	3,492	0.21%	0	1,671,148	50
Nevada	2/4/2012	16,486	50.12%	14	3	6,956	21.15%	6	-	3,277	9.96%	3	-	6,175	18.77%	5	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	32,894	28
Main		2,190	39.65%	9	4	349	6.32%	0	-	989	17.90%	3	-	1,996	36.13%	7	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	5,524	19
Colorado	2/7/2012	22,875	35.00%	13	-	8,394	12.84%	1	-	26,372	40.35%	17	2	7,713	11.80%	1	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	65,354	32
Minnesota		8,096	16.97%	2	-	5,134	10.76%	1	-	21,436	44.94%	25	3	13,030	27.32%	9	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	47,696	14
Missouri		63,826	26.24%	0	-	9,859	4.05%	0	-	138,957	57.12%	0	4	30,641	12.59%	0	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	243,283	0
Arizona	2/28/2012	216,805	47.99%	29	5	74,110	16.40%	0	-	122,088	27.03%	0	-	38,753	8.58%	0	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	451,756	29
Michigan		409,899	42.34%	16	6	65,016	6.72%	0	-	377,521	38.99%	14	-	115,712	11.95%	0	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	968,148	30
Washington	3/3/2012	19,111	37.65%	30	7	5,221	10.28%	0	-	12,089	23.81%	5	-	12,594	24.81%	5	-	924	1.82%	0	437	0.86%	0	198	0.39%	0	190	0.37%	0	50,764	40
Wyoming		822	38.99%	10	8	165	7.83%	1	-	673	31.93%	9	-	439	20.83%	6	-	3	0.14%	0	2	0.09%	0	2	0.09%	0	2	0.09%	0	2,108	26
Alaska	3/6/2012	4,285	32.52%	8	9	1,856	14.09%	3	-	3,860	29.30%	7	-	3,175	24.10%	6	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	13,176	24
Georgia	S	225,926	25.18%	15	-	417,364	47.81%	47	2	172,473	19.76%	10	-	57,125	6.54%	4	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	872,888	76
Idaho	u	27,514	61.61%	32	10	940	2.11%	0	-	8,115	18.17%	0	-	8,086	18.11%	0	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	44,655	32
Massachusetts	p	260,509	73.29%	41	11	16,756	4.71%	0	-	43,6114	12.27%	0	-	34,575	9.735	0	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	355,455	41
N. Dakota	e	2,691	23.71%	7	-	961	8.48%	2	-	4,510	39.74%	11	5	3,186	28.07%	8	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	11,349	28
Ohio	r	453,927	38.93%	32	12	174,606	14.78%	10	-	441,908	37.42%	20	-	110,633	9.37%	4	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	1,181,074	66
Oklahoma		80,291	28.34%	13	-	78,686	27.77%	13	-	96,759	34.15%	14	6	27,572	9.73%	13	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	283,208	43
Tennessee	T	153,889	28.46%	18	-	132,142	24.43%	12	-	204,978	37.90%	26	7	49,782	9.21%	2	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	540,791	58
Vermont	u	22,533	41.01%	9	13	4,606	8.39%	0	-	13,401	24.39%	4	-	14,407	26.22%	4	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	54,949	17
Virginia	e	158,050	59.52%	44	14	0	0.00%	0	-	0	0.00%	0	-	107,470	40.48%	5	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	265,520	49
Kansas	3/10/2012																														40
Guam																															9
Virgin Islands																															9
Alabama	3/13/2012																														50
Am Somoa																															9
Hawaii																															20
Mississippi																															40
Missouri	3/17/2012																														52
Puerto Rico	3/18/2024																														23
Illinois	3/20/2012																														69
Louisiana	3/24/2012																														46
DC	4/3/2012																														19
Maryland																															37
Wisconsin																															42
Texas																															155
At large Del's				23				4				1				0				0			0			0					28
TOTALS		3,221,342	39.61%	431	14	1,820,751	22.39%	124	2	2,071,921	25.48%	183	7	921,744	11.33%	78	0	50,821	1.13%	2	24,067	0.53%	0	11,054	0.25%	0	10,228	0.23%	0	8,131,928	814
To Date % of	Delegates		Romney	53%			Gingrich	15%			Santorum	21%			Paul	10%			Huntsman	<1%		Perry	0%		Bachman	0%		Cain	0%

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In my estimation, Super Tuesday though certainly not a "knock out" by any means, represented a moderatley strong showing and victory for Romney. He took six states and the lion's share of delegates and is on a path to outright win the nomination. Santorum had a decent night, but it had to be disappointing. If he had won Ohio and his margins had been better in Okalahoma and Tennessee, he would have had an outstanding night. Newt Gingrich has to be strongly disappointed. He won his home state by 20 ponits (but to be fair, Romney won his true home state by 60 points), but then Newt finished 3rd or fourth in all other contests and had a much smaller delegate count to show for it. For Paul, it has to be a huge disappointment. Though finishing second in a couple of races, his overall delegate count, even in the caucus states was meager at best. He was hoping to win North Dakota and gain more delegates overall, but none of that happened.

Romney will most probably at this point begin to pivot and focus more and more on going head to head with Obama and concentrating on finding a VP pick that will solidify as much of the party and base as he can for the general election.

Only by uniting, can Santorum and Gingrich now prevent Romney from having a real strong chance of winning the nomination outright. At this point I think the best they can hope for is a brokered convention...otherwise, mathematically, I believe Romney will ultimately eak out a win...probably at the 50-55% range of delegates needed. It seems at this point, for whatever reason, that Gingrich and Santorum are unwilling to unite, so they will continue to split the more conservative vote and allow Romney to win more contests and win a larger proportion of delegates in so doing. In the end, I will support any of the GOP candidates, whichever wins the nomination against the abject marxist ideolog, Obama, as any one of them will be far better than Barack Obama. Four more years of his horrific leadership and fundamental change could easily put this nation in a economic, debt, foreign policy, and energy hole we will have a very difficult and very painful time of digging our way out of...and at the cost of decades of heavy burden placed on our children and grandchildren.

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America is at the crossroads of history and we must choose aright
(http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm)

Jeff Head
March 7, 2012

[Kazan]

Randall Terry on the Democratic side and infinite percentage gain in delegates!

[georgiagirl_pam]

Since you don’t live in GA you can’t possibly know that the TV airwaves have been CLOGGED for two months with anti-Newt ads from Mitt’s superpac

[GracieOMalley]

Don’t you ever get dizzy from all that spinning?