Romney Sweeps Five

           Mitt Romney went in to the night of April 24^th knowing that he was going to win every primary that was going to be held that evening. With Rick Santorom dropping out, who was always the runner-up to Romney, or in some cases the winner of primaries, all of the power has shifted to Mitt’s campaign.

            Tuesday night held five GOP primaries, this just being the second night in April that there have been Republican primaries held. In the Connecticut primary, with twenty-five delegates at stake, Mitt won all of them and had sixty-seven percent of the vote. Seventeen delegates were up for grabs in Delaware, with Romney taking all of them, and getting fifty-six percent of the vote. He racked up all ninety-two delegates in New York while receiving sixty-three percent of the vote. No delegates were handed out in Pennsylvania, as Mitt was accounted for fifty-eight percent of the time there. Finally, in Rhode Island, Mitt won twelve of the sixteen delegates, with Ron Paul winning the other four. These were the only delegates won by a candidate besides Romney.

            So, after the dust settled on Tuesday night, Mitt had been awarded one hundred and forty-seven delegates bringing his total to eight hundred and forty-one delegates. This means that he is only three hundred and three delegates away from that magical number, 1,144, that is needed to officially win the nomination. If you want more information, here are a few websites including Romney’s campaign webpage: cnn.com, usatoday.com, and mittromney.com.      

Santorom Drops Out

This week I will be finally discussing the Wisconsin, Maryland, and the Washington D.C. primaries that took place at the beginning of the month, and then of course the decision by Rick Santorom to turn down from the GOP race.

First, to the only states that has voted in the month of April so far. On April 3^rd, Mitt Romney sweeped all three of those states, winning by seven percent over Santorom and picking up thirty-three delegates of the forty-two that were up for grabs in Wisconsin, beating Santorom by twenty percent and receiving all thirty-seven delegates available in Maryland, and getting seventy percent of the vote and winning all sixteen delegates in Washington D.C. over runner-up Ron Paul who finished with twelve percent. Rick Santorom was not on that D.C. ballot. This brought Mitt Romney to six hundred and fifty-nine total delegates by the end of the night, well over halfway to the Republican nomination.

After Easter weekend, Rick Santorom announced on April 10^th that he was stepping down from the GOP race. He left after winning eleven states and racking up two hundred and seventy-five delegates. There have been many different conclusions on why Santorom has dropped out so soon. Some analysts think it is because he wanted to avoid losing to Romney in his own home state, Pennsylvania, on April 24^th. There have been other reports that it’s because of his daughter Bella’s most recent scare with health issues, as she suffers from a rare genetic condition called Trisomy 18. Whatever the case, Rick has “suspended” his campaign after a “long weekend of prayer”. This obviously gives a wide open door to the Republican nomination for Mitt Romney who is already talking about facing President Obama in October and November. Santorom has said nothing yet about endorsing any candidate, and in fact hasn’t even talked to Romney.

The Republican nomination is everything but done, as Romney holds a five hundred and nineteen delegate lead over Newt Gingrich, and a five hundred and eighty-seven delegate lead on Ron Paul. Next week, I will be running down how the Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island primaries all went, although I think you all probably know how they will go. Once again, here are the two websites that I use for quotes among other things: cnn.com and usatoday.com. I also used newser.com this week for more information about Bella Santorom.   

More Wins For Mitt

In this week’s post, I will be giving how all of the candidates did in the Puerto Rico, Illinois, and Louisiana primaries. I will also be giving insight on how the race has been going, and who has the momentum going into the upcoming primaries in April. First, the Puerto Rico primary, which was held on March 18^th.  Mitt Romney won yet again, with maybe the biggest margin of victory of this primary season. He took a whopping eighty-three percent of the vote, and won all twenty delegates that were at stake. Rick Santorom finished in a not-very-close second, with only eight percent of the vote. Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul trailed behind with two percent and one percent of the vote respectively.

 Then there was the Illinois primary on March 20^th, which had fifty-four delegates up for grabs. Mitt won again, with nearly half the votes (47%), and well over half of the delegates won (42). Santorom finished runner-up once again, with thirty-five percent of the vote and the remaining twelve delegates won. Ron Paul finished third with nine percent and Gingrich with eight. There were no delegates won by those latter two candidates.

 Finally, there was the Louisiana primary that was held last Saturday, the 24^th. With a pre-race lead in many different polls, Rick Santorom did indeed win the Bayou. Although he didn’t win many delegates, he topped Mitt by twenty-two percent by getting forty-nine percent of the vote compared to Romney’s twenty-seven. He also doubled up Romney in won delegates as he won ten, and Romney had five. So after all of the races so far, twenty-nine states have voted, and Mitt still has a big edge in the total delegates won. He has five hundred and seventy-one delegates, and Santorom has two hundred sixty-four. Those two candidates have seemed to pull away from the other two, Paul and Gingrich.

 Here are as usual, the two websites that I used for information: usatoday.com and cnn.com. Next week I will be running down the results of the Wisconsin, District of Columbia, and Maryland primaries.