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.