Super Tuesday Overview and More

Since I haven’t blogged for a while, I will let all of you know how the March 6^th Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses went, if you didn’t know already. I will also be giving all of the information about the Alabama and Mississippi primaries and all of the other states that have voted since my previous post. I’ll start with the biggest primary voting day of the season for the Republicans, which is Super Tuesday. Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia all voted for the Republican Party. Out of those, Mitt Romney won six, Rick Santorom won three, and Newt Gingrich took home just one lone state. Mitt’s victories included Alaska, where he edged out Santorom, and won eight delegates, one better than Santorom. He also won Idaho, winning all thirty-two delegates and getting sixty-two percent of the vote. He also won Massachusetts, the state he used to govern, winning all thirty-eight delegates and seventy-two percent of the vote. Ohio went to Mitt, edging out Santorom once again, as he only beat him by one percent (thirty-eight to thirty-seven), but won sixteen more delegates than Rick, thirty-five to nineteen. Santorom finished third in the Vermont primary, with Ron Paul finishing in second and of course Romney winning with forty percent of the vote, and getting nine delegates. Paul and Santorom each received four delegates. In Virginia, Mitt and Paul were the only ones on the ballot, as Santorom and Gingrich didn’t receive enough signatures to get on. Romney won big, getting sixty percent of the vote, and Paul with the other forty. Mitt won forty-three of the forty-six delegates, with Ron getting the other three. Rick Santorom’s wins included Tennessee where he won twelve more delegates than Romney (27-15), and getting thirty-seven percent of the vote, compared to Mitt’s twenty-eight. Newt Gingrich won the other eight delegates. The Senator also won Oklahoma by six percent over Mitt, and receiving one more delegate (14) than both Romney and Gingrich (13). Rick also won North Dakota, racking up forty percent of the vote, over runner-up Ron Paul’s twenty-eight, and getting eleven delegates, which was three better than Paul’s eight, four better than Romney’s seven, and nine more than Gingrich’s two to round out his wins for the evening. Newt Gingrich’s win was a big one that barely kept him in contention after all of the dust settled. He won a big Southern swing state, Georgia, by twenty-one percent over Romney, with forty-seven, and also won fifty-two delegates. Mitt won twenty-one, and Santorom won the remaining three, as he came in third. Overall, it was a big night for Romney and also a good night for Santorom, but not good enough. At the end of the night, Rick was still down by over a hundred delegates to Romney (He is currently ahead by 313 delegates over second-place Rick). Next was Kansas, which took place on March 10^th. Rick won big with fifty-one percent of the vote, and thirty-three pledged delegates. Romney finished in second with twenty-one percent of the vote, and also won the remaining seven delegates. Rick took that confidence into the March 13^th primaries that included two more Southern states, Alabama and Mississippi, and also Hawaii. Rick took two out of the three, as he got thirty-five percent of the vote, and eighteen delegates in Alabama, which edged out Romney and Gingrich, who each had twenty-nine percent of the vote and nine delegates won. In Mississippi, Rick had thirty-three percent of the vote, and got thirteen delegates, which was one more than both Romney and Gingrich had. Romney and Gingrich both finished with thirty-one percent of the vote. Mitt did, however, win Hawaii with forty-four percent of the vote, and also won nine delegates. Santorom came in second with twenty-five percent of the vote, and won five delegates. Ron Paul finished third, winning three delegates after getting nineteen percent of the vote. Next week I will be recapping the Puerto Rico and Illinois primaries, and tell how the Louisiana primary went. Here are again the two websites where I get all of my information came from: cnn.com/election/2012 and usatoday.com/news/politics.              

Michigan, Arizona, and Wyoming All Go to Romney

Instead of giving a preview of the Arizona and Michigan primaries on Tuesday and the Wyoming caucus on Wednesday, I will now give a complete summary on how each candidate did, and what it will mean for them moving forward. First off, the Michigan primary. Hopeful Rick Santorom had been campaigning in the state for the last two weeks, trying to win over the leader, Mitt Romney, in Romney’s own home state. Polls kept rolling in, and a good portion of them showed that Santorom was favored. However, Romney came in with a late surge, and on Tuesday night, won the primary by a very small margin. Mitt finished with 409,899 votes, giving him forty-one percent, and won sixteen of the thirty delegates. Senator Santorom finished right behind him, giving the former Massachusetts governor a good race. Rick got a respectful thirty-eight percent of the vote, for 377,521, and fourteen delegates. Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich trailed behind, with 115,712 and 65,016 respectively, and twelve and seven percent, also respectively. There were no delegates won for either of the two. Ninety-five percent of the state’s votes are estimated in. Then there was the Arizona primary, which is a winner-take-all type of primary, and in which Santorom did not campaign for at all. Romney exploded, getting a mind-boggling forty-seven percent of the vote, and 216,805 tallies, and winning all of the twenty-nine delegates the state had to offer. Santorom barely left a shadow, let alone Paul and Gingrich. Rick finished with 122,088 votes, and got twenty-seven percent of the vote. Newt finished in third, with sixteen percent of the vote, and 74,110 votes. Paul finished last, with just seven percent, and 38,753 votes. Eighty-two percent of the vote is reportedly in. Tuesday was an excellent day for Romney, proving that he could be attacked, but also could fight back. Santorom still had that cheery, enthusiastic smile on his face after he saw what the final results were at the end of the night. Moving into the extra day of February, Leap Day, all eyes moved to the small state of Wyoming, and its caucus. All of the state’s votes were in by seven P.M. that evening, and it showed yet another win for Romney. Mitt finished with a very small 822 votes, but that got him thirty-nine percent of the vote, and ten of the twenty-nine delegates. Santorom, yet again, was right behind him, getting 673 votes, thirty-two percent, and nine delegates. Ron Paul actually finished quite well, getting twenty-one percent, and 439 votes. He won six delegates. And then there was former Speaker Gingrich, who had 165 votes, eight percent, and one lone delegate. All around, I think it was a spectacular, up-lifting three-wins-in-two-days for Mitt Romney. Michigan was a small, but also big win. Arizona was a landslide victory, where he collected all of the delegates, and another slim, but good win in the small state of Wyoming. Rick Santorom has almost gotten the “shadow” character of Romney in this race, being behind him in every race this week. Santorom is now down big in the delegate race, being down one hundred three delegates to Romney. However, Super Tuesday is right around the corner, and even though it isn’t as super as some of the previous election years, it could be a big uprising for the likes of Santorom, or a big increase of likability for Mitt Romney. Whatever the case, it seems like thois has turned into a two-man race, and I will be covering it next week in my post. Here are again the links for all of my information: usatoday.com and www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2012.