Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Mitt Romney Wins Big In Wisconsin, Maryland & Washington D.C. Primary!!

Tonight was a big night for Mitt Romney. in which he won Maryland, Washington D.C. and Wisconsin. A combined total of 98 delegates were at stake in these states and a substantial majority of the delegates in each state. Each of these primary elections were winner take all states in which all the delegates were up for grabs. By winning tonight, Mitt Romney increased his massive lead over his Republican competitor.
In Maryland, Romney won 53% of the vote which allowed him to win all the 37 delegates available tonight. An interesting fact came from the Maryland exit polls in which Romney TIED Santorum in Maryland among the very conservative voters. Also, 41% of Maryland voters said that the most important quality that they wanted in a candidate was someone who can beat Obama. Mitt Romney's victory in Maryland pushes him past the half way point of getting the 1,114 delegates needed to become the GOP nominee: 
Maryland was expected to go to Mr. Romney, but the delegates he secured there pushed him past an important milestone on his quest to be the Republican presidential nominee: Mr. Romney is now more than halfway towards the 1,144 delegates he needs to mathematically win the nomination.
Maryland brings Mr. Romney's delegate total to 600 according to an ongoing count by The Associated Press. Rick Santorum, with 272 delegates, has less than half that amount.
Romney also won all of the 19 delegates in Washington D.C with 72 % of the vote  Rick Santorum was not able to get on the ballot in Washington D.C. and as a result, Romney got those delegates pretty much for free.
Finally, in Wisconsin, Mitt Romney won  21 delegates with 43% of the vote. Clearly, this was a good night for Mitt Romney. Rick Santorum wanted to take Mitt Romney out by any means possible tonight but  admitted that he doubted he could win Wisconsin after it became clear that Romney had erased his lead in that state in the weeks prior to the election.
Prior to this election night, the current delegate count stood as the following: Romney (568), Santorum (273), Gingrich (135) and Paul (50). Now the delegate count stands as pictured below:
Rick Santorum suffered an embarrassing loss tonight which demonstrates his declining influence in this primary race. He's stated that he would be open to becoming Mitt Romney's VP but Team Romney shot that down by stating he's not on their list.  Part of the reason why the Romney campaign doesn't want Santorum as their VP is that he doesn't really have much influence or clout inside or outside the Republican party. 
Despite losing badly to Romney, Rick Santorum remains undaunted and vows to fight on despite the fact that it is virtually impossible for him to win the Republican nomination because Mitt Romney Romney has collected 70% of delegates thus far (646), more than all the other other candidates combined (458). Given the impossibility of getting the Republican nomination, some people are questioning Santorum's sanity in pressing forward despite getting swept out by Mitt Romney.  However, Rick Santorum has indicated that he will stay in the race until the Pennsylvania primary.
Tonight's victory demonstrated the 2012 Republican primaries are over. Rick Santorum is in denial about this fact. However, it has been announced that Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Romney campaign will now be raising campaign funds together. That's an obvious sign that the Republican party already knows who the Republican nominee will be.
Another sign is that for the first time in the Romney's campaign, supporters who came to see Mitt's victory speech tonight had to walk through metal detectors and saw an increase in the number of Secret Service agents at campaign event.
The best thing about Mitt Romney's win tonight is that it marks the beginning of the general election against President Obama. Romney is already beginning to shift to the general election by spending more of his time attacking President Obama than focusing on contrasting himself with the other 2012 candidates.  Mitt gave an great speech tonight distinguishing himself from Obama and setting out his vision for America.
The battle between Obama and Mitt Romney is now on. Go Mitt Romney!

3 comments:

  1. HERE IS TRUTH BELOW:
    For the previous elections, the Media’s Delegate Math is Wrong. I heard/saw the Republican Party of Texas Chairman Steve Munisteri and read these items from Rick Santorum’s website.
    From RickSantorum.com (April 8, 2012):
    “The REAL Count – The Media’s Delegate Math is Wrong!
    Our current internal count that takes into account ongoing county, district, and state conventions is as follows:
    Romney – 571; Santorum – 342; Newt – 158; Paul – 91″
    The state of Texas is in the process of announcing that they are going to go Winner Take All rather than proportional, and Romney has proven to them he doesn’t care about Texas, just like Obama.
    WFAA news video posted on WFAA’s website (also April 8, 2012) with Republican Party of Texas Chairman Steve Munisteri saying Romney only has about 550 votes, and that the RNC changed the rules and there are 155 votes. Texas is frustrated and Romney has been like ignoring Texas. Another lesson in the DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS rule book. I can conclude that it is likely to put a count closer to 500 for Santorum if you count all 155 from Texas. There are a lot of states with back room deals being made according to many reports I’ve seen, and we will not tolerate it any longer. We demand our voice be heard, and our vote to count.
    Romney uses words out of context and twists the statements of other people’s meanings proves he cannot be trusted) & he cannot buy my vote, and I hope the AP, GOP, & other media dispensaries would stop allowing false reports and bullying tactics in the process. America, Rick Santorum has been fighting for America, please stop believing the lies about him. He should and he will beat Obama and Romney, if this election is fair, and we support him.
    Texas, you are significant. Stand strong. TELL GOP, MEDIA, ROMNEY, OBAMA THAT YOU ARE NOT FOR SALE…
    LET THE WORLD HEAR FROM YOU TEXAS…
    SEND THE MESSAGE WE KNOW YOU TO STAND UPON…
    DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS… Give Rick Santorum all 155 votes…
    Bottom line: The truth (if the media could report it) will set you free.
    God cannot and will not be mocked by America—-
    MORE GOP, DEMOCRAT, WHITE HOUSE, MEDIA APPROVED PROPAGANDA FOLLOWS BELOW… WAKE UP WORLD, THIS IS HISTORY… AMERICAN GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION NEEDS TO BE STOPPED NOW… AMERICANS ARE BEING DECEIVED… ANDREW BREITBART TOLD THE TRUTH AND NOW HE IS DEAD… NOW THERE ARE TREACHEROUS AND TREASONOUS TIMES UPON US…
    False count:
    elections.nytimes. 2012/primaries/delegates
    Here below Jake Tapper is spreading false claims, almost certainly is false report:
    TAPPER: “Mitt Romney will almost certainly be the Republican nominee,”
    abcnews.go/blogs/politics/2012/04/rick-warren-fundamental-differences-between-mormons-and-christians/#comment-22758802
    Zechariah 8:16 says “These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates” and this is our mandate, as well as any other God speaks to each of us as they are convicted.
    PLEASE PRAY FOR AMERICA RIGHT NOW. IT IS PERHAPS THE 3RD MOST IMPORTANT MOMENT IN ITS HISTORY AND THERE IS A LOT OF DIVISION.

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    1. You are citing facts from a memo that the Santorum campaign released to the media. However, his calculation of what the delegate count actually is is based on a very flawed assumption:

      "The campaign reached its rosier version of the delegate count making some assumptions that many experts don't believe will happen, including that Florida and Arizona will change positions and decide to award their delegates proportionally instead of winner take all. Santorum officials said the states broke Republican National Committee rules by not making their contests proportional and therefore conclude the RNC will take away some of Romney's delegates there."

      Source: http://conservativesamizdat.blogspot.com/2012/04/is-rick-santorum-in-or-out-of-2012-race.html

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  2. I wonder if any of my suspects for a running mate, Paul Ryan, Bobby Jindal, or Allen West get the pick, I guess only time will tell.

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