{"id":7004,"date":"2012-02-05T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T08:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7004"},"modified":"2012-02-05T00:24:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T08:24:37","slug":"romney-buys-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/05\/romney-buys-nevada\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Buys Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"

The best thing I can say about the Nevada Caucuses is that I slept through them.  Romney outspent his opponents, as always, and sailed to an easy victory.  Gingrich was a distant second.  Santorum was fourth, but it appears that he is now trying to froth his way into a VP spot.  No other Republican candidate is worthy of mention.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"5Nevada\"Mitt Romney handily won the Nevada caucuses on Saturday, solidifying his status as the front-runner and increasing his momentum as he seeks to use the month of February to ease doubts within the Republican Party about his candidacy and begin confronting President Obama.<\/p>\n

Mr. Romney ran well ahead of his three opponents on a night that delivered his second decisive first-place finish in four days, following his victory in the Florida primary on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Mr. Romney appeared elated as he took the stage at his election headquarters at the Red Rock casino hotel here, kissing his wife, Ann, who reminded the crowd that Nevada would be important in a general election, and hugging his sons before delivering a speech geared toward the fall\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <NY Times<\/a>><\/p>\n

Here are the latest stats with 43% reporting.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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 <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\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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7,884<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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43%<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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

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

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4,623<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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25%<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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

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

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3,460<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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19%<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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

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

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2,246<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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12%<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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

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

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18,213<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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 <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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

And here is the current 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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95<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

On Tuesday, Missouri has a primary.  Colorado and Minnesota have caucuses.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The best thing I can say about the Nevada Caucuses is that I slept through them.  Romney outspent his opponents, as always, and sailed to an easy victory.  Gingrich was a distant second.  Santorum was fourth, but it appears that he is now trying to froth his way into a VP spot.  No other Republican […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized","category-5-id","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004","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=7004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}