{"id":7463,"date":"2012-03-25T13:49:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T20:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7463"},"modified":"2012-03-25T13:49:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T20:49:47","slug":"romney-still-zero-in-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/25\/romney-still-zero-in-the-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Still Zero in the South"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an outcome that surprised nobody, Rick Santorum frothed the state of Louisiana in his widest victory to date. Romney was a distant second, Gingrich a pathetic third, and Paul the total loser.  Nevertheless, it is unlikely that this win will help Santorum significantly, because the primaries from now on favor Romney\u2019s ability to buy over Santorum\u2019s ability to BS.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"25LA\"The Louisiana primary was a boost for Rick Santorum\u2019s presidential hopes. But while Santorum led front-runner Mitt Romney by a wide margin in Louisiana\u2019s popular vote Saturday (49-27 percent), the results did little to close the delegate gap between the two.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, between now and early May the GOP primary schedule \u2013 northern states with large urban populations \u2013 favors Romney, who already has major advantages in campaign funds and organization.<\/p>\n

"I think the primary’s over," Senator Lindsey Graham (R) of South Carolina said on CNN’s "State of the Union" Sunday. "Romney will be the nominee."<\/p>\n

Santorum notched a mere five-delegate advantage over Romney in Louisiana. But the former Massachusetts governor has accumulated twice as many delegates as Santorum \u2013 568 to 273.<\/p>\n

Romney still needs to get to 1,144 to win the nomination. But as the two leading candidates fight their way through the election calendar, it becomes tougher and tougher for Santorum to catch up\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Christian Science Monitor<\/a>><\/p>\n

Here are the results:<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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91,305<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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49%<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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

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

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49,749<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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28%<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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

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

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29,655<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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16%<\/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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11,460<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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6%<\/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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182,169<\/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 latest delegate estimate:<\/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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568<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

I doubt that Gingrich will be gone soon, or be almost completely inactive, because I doubt that he can cut into Romney sufficiently to justify continued billionaire bankrolling.  Paul will probably stay in the race, because the vast gulf between the acolytes of his cult and reality asymptotically approaches infinity.<\/font><\/p>\n

Romney\u2019s unpopularity in the south will play a greater role in the general election.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an outcome that surprised nobody, Rick Santorum frothed the state of Louisiana in his widest victory to date. Romney was a distant second, Gingrich a pathetic third, and Paul the total loser.  Nevertheless, it is unlikely that this win will help Santorum significantly, because the primaries from now on favor Romney\u2019s ability to buy […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","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\/7463","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=7463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}