{"id":6958,"date":"2012-02-01T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T08:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6958"},"modified":"2012-02-01T00:01:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T08:01:44","slug":"florida-and-the-important-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/01\/florida-and-the-important-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida and the Important Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOPBull\"In the Florida Primary, there were no surprises. Romney beat Gingrich by a 14% margin, largely because he spent almost ten times what Gingrich spent on advertising.  Santorum was a distant third and Ron Paul mattered so little that he could not even pull 10%.  Gingrich was such a bad loser that he did not even give Romney the customary phone call congratulating him.  Romney won 50 delegates, but that\u2019s more complicated than meets the eye.  We\u2019ll go into that.  Also, we\u2019ll cover the Important Election.<\/font><\/p>\n

Here are the  election results for Florida.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Florida<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Goose Stepper<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Votes<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Percent<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Delegates<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Romney<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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771,842<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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46%<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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50<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Gingrich<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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531,294<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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32%<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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0<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Santorum<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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222,248<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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13%<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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0<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Paul<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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116,776<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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7%<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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0<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Total<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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1,642,160<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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And here is the latest delegate count.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Delegates<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Romney<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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84<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Gingrich<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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27<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Paul<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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10<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Santorum<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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8<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Florida gets only 50 delegates, instead if their normal 99, because The Republican controlled state government moved up the primary earlier that RNC rules would permit.  The RNC penalized Florida by taking half their delegates.  The RNC also has a new rule forbidding winner take all primaries.  But the government of Florida broke that rule too, figuring that they have already received the RNC\u2019s maximum punishment.  However, at the convention, any Gingrich supporter can challenge the distribution of delegates to the credentials committee.  They may well override Florida and redistribute the delegates proportionally.<\/font><\/p>\n

The most important thing to know is that if any of these candidates becomes President, YOU lose!<\/font><\/p>\n

In the important election, I\u2019m pleased to announce that Suzanne Bonamici is Oregon\u2019s new representative in the First Congressional District, and congratulate her on a well deserved win.<\/font><\/p>\n

\"1Bonamici\"<\/font><\/p>\n

Currently, Bonamici leads 54% to 39% with 68% of precincts in.<\/font><\/p>\n

After running a very dirty campaign, Rob Cornilles has once again been rejected by Oregon voters, who were too well informed to believe his lies.  Cornilles ignored the Eleventh Commandment: <\/font>Thou shalt not commit Teabuggery!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Florida Primary, there were no surprises. Romney beat Gingrich by a 14% margin, largely because he spent almost ten times what Gingrich spent on advertising.  Santorum was a distant third and Ron Paul mattered so little that he could not even pull 10%.  Gingrich was such a bad loser that he did not […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-politics","category-19-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}