Posted on 03/08/2012 10:28:35 PM PST by Fred
A new official delegate count being kept by the Republican National Committee reveals that Newt Gingrich has won more "bound" delegates in the presidential primary than Rick Santorum.
Gingrich has won 107 delegates compared to Santorum's 95, according to the RNC's count, which was made after Super Tuesday. That effectively puts him in second place behind front-runner Mitt Romney.
But the RNC does not count delegates from states like Iowa in its total, according to the Huffington Post, which first reported the story. The Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses did not officially allocate any of the state's 28 delegates to the national convention.
Many state caucuses are held in a similar manner.
Even though Gingrich has only won two primary contests, in South Carolina and Georgia, and former Sen. Santorum has won seven -- in Iowa, Colorado, Minnesota, Misssouri,
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THese are Primaries, not states, that are being won. They are Primaries within states. That is not the same thing as winning a state in a general election.
In these Primaries, Newt’s opponents are Romney, Santorum and Ron Paul.
Romney overwhelmed Newt with negative ad lies, then Santorum walked into the breach that Romney had created and became it’s chief beneficiary.
Newt got off message in response, but he is back on message.
Before all this happened, Newt was poised to either win or do well in a number of states that are the type you keep harping on.
You take a small snippet of a fair point, but you forget everything else when you post your questions and worries.
And nobody dares to question or speak concerns about Santorum to you, or you scratch their eyes out.
Newt Gingrich, one on one, against Obama.
That is exactly what is needed.
Like Ronald Reagan against Jimmy Carter, when they said early on that Reagan could not beat Jimmy Carter.
In the end, it wasn’t even close.
Because the RNC is pimping for Mitt to win and by propping up Newt(who came in third or 4th in 9 out of 10 super Tuesday states and has only one his home state and the neighboring one) they hope to divide the conservative vote.
Not happy with Santorum or Newt as the only alternatives to Mitt but...someone has to stop mittens and Rick has won a number of states all over the country. Newt has quit on Kansas and is putting all his marbles in Alabama and Mississippi. If he fails to win there I think its time to give it up.
I just looked up the 1980 primary and Ronald Reagan won 44 states in the Republican PRIMARY. That is incredible. I would not be worried a second if Newt was at the end going to win 44 states. George HW Bush won 6. During the general is when people stupidly said that Reagan would not beat Carter.
Over the next few days and weeks, many of the unbound delegates Santorum has won will become bound. These are places where Santorum has already won once. Do you see Newt gaining more than Santorum in these places?
.... Soft Delegate are nothing more than their ticket has been punched to the State Convention.
Newt has already said he will be going after these “Soft Delegates”
Tsk tsk.....Go Newt Go!!!!! Go!!!! Go!!!!!
Good...I wish it were Newt....
Yes! Excellent tagline...i need to steal that.
You're not alone....I'm hearing this on the street when conversation moves toward the Primary.
Go Newt Go!!!!!
It would appear that the RNC is finally stating what you have been saying all along.
Yes! Yes!
Gingrich Santorum Romney Paul Uncommitted Pl Unpl Pl Unpl Pl Unpl Pl Unpl Pl Unpl 115 13 118 46 366 37 35 38 4 0
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Not by this conservative.
Correct. Newt was supposed to come here to Kansas this week, but pulled out after mentioning that he was “going to win the state” on Tuesday night. SO since that happened all the momemtum is in Rick’s corner for a ne asy because the state has turned veen more conservative than usual and Myth also pulled out of coming here. Paul has no chance. But of course, up here in Johnson county, Paul has to unfortunatley appear at every caucus site, all high schools to speak. Nothing one can do about it.
Correct. Newt was supposed to come here to Kansas this week, but pulled out after mentioning that he was “going to win the state” on Tuesday night. So since that happened all the momemtum is in Rick’s corner since the state has turned more conservative than usual and he has abig bas of support and Myth also pulled out of coming here. Paul has no chance. But of course, up here in Johnson county, Paul has to unfortunatley appear at every caucus site, all high schools, to speak. Nothing one can do about it.
Some folks inside the Super PAC have thought this all along too. Perhaps they have counted too much on this, because public perception is a powerful force that they might have ignored somewhat. But it IS encouraging to see the RNC say this.
Only Gingrich has the intellect and oratorical skill to beat Obama.
Newt should remain in to shake the gop establishment up and obtain some negotiating power at the convention. He has a more conservative plan than any other candidate running and a much more conservative record.
The points you make are great points, but I do not expect the RS fan base to either understand it, or admit that they do - if they do. There are two ‘voodoo votanomics’ tactics RS and his folks use.
First: The whole Santorum campaign has been on the vaporous impact of an 8 vote “win” in Iowa or calling a caucus with a teeny tiny voter base a “STATE” that has been won. They call an 8 vote win in a tiny Obama loving state the equivalent of losing by many hundreds of thousands in a swing state like Florida. And yes, the dupes in the nation and the dupes on Fox News play right along with this.
Second: they equate the ability to win a GOP primary in a swing state as the equivalent of winning the General Election in that state. It has NOTHING to do with it. Frankly, winning a swing state in a primary and in a general quite often are totally the opposite type campaign.
As part of that nonsense, they try to minimize the impact of Newt winning RED states in primaries. Actually, primaries should ONLY be in red states because that shows who will gin up turn out and enthusiasm in the general potentially. And huge conservative turn out is our ONLY chance of success in the coming election for President and every other office.
And this is a fact: there is only 1 state with a good turn out this year versus 2008: SC. Who won that one?
But again, I’ve seen no evidence of the ability nor the desire on the part of some to understand this. The notion that 30 thousand folks in Minnesota is a “win” just like 625 thousand in SC is a “win” is just below the level of comprehension that I care to force my self to access. Lots of folks LIVE there.
don’t forget FL where Newt should get half of those votes, won more counties, i remember one person never winning a county in FL, very important state I might add, who was that now?
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Seems FOX, the establishment really thought they had done enough of their attacks to put Newt down and yet he’s still there, so sorry FOX, GOP and the RINO’s, Newt still has support from us down here
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