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.