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.