RSSRick Santorum Did it Again … Wins in Alabama & Mississippi Primaries and Mitt Romney in Hawaii Caucuses
Deep South Tuesday primaries and Hawaii Caucuses …
It was close; however, in the end Rick Santorum wins in the Deep South Alabama and Mississippi primaries.In Alabama it was a virtual tie among Santorum, Gingrich and Romney with the GOP Presidential hopefuls gaining 32.9%, 31.3% and 30.3% respectively. Santorum won in Mississippi with 34.5%, Gingrich 29.3% and Romney with 29.0% .
The triumphs by Mr. Santorum elevated and strengthened his candidacy as the Republican campaign rolls ahead into a state-by-state battle for delegates. An aggressive push by Mr. Romney to try and capitalize on the divided conservative electorate failed to take hold, and he finished third in both states.
“We did it again,” Mr. Santorum said, addressing jubilant supporters in Louisiana, which holds its Republican primary next week. “The time is now for conservatives to pull together.”
In Hawaii, Romney won easily with 45.4% of the vote, Santorum a distant second with 25.3%, Paul with 18.3% and Gingrich last with 11%. At the evenings end, Romny will most likely wind up winning the most delegates when they are proportionally distributed in Alabama, Mississippi and Hawaii.
With Gingrich losing Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi to Santorum, one does have to question whether Newt really is the ‘Southern” candidate. Although, I do not believe in candidates telling others to get out of the race to make it easier for themselves, at some point Newt Gingrich is going to have to read the tea leaves and admit that the voters believe that Santorun is the stronger Conservative GOP candidate.It probably is time for Gingrich to be a statesman and gracefully bow out of the race.
“We did it again,” Mr. Santorum told supporters in Louisiana on Tuesday night. He added: “Ordinary folks can defy the odds, day in, day out.”
The results cast a shadow on the candidacy of Newt Gingrich, who was banking on a sweep of the Deep South to carry him to the nomination. He squeaked into a second-place finish in both states, ahead of Mr. Romney—and vowing to stay in the race.
“Newt has given it a great run, but Santorum has earned a mano-a-mano shot at Romney,” said Keith Appell, a Republican strategist who has worked for a long list of conservative candidates.
Posted March 14, 2012 by Scared Monkeys 2012 Elections, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Presidential Contenders, Primaries, Rick Santorum, You Tube - VIDEO | 7 comments |
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Santorum is an idiot and certainly not a match for Obama…Obama would make him look like a fool…why are people so stupid to vote for him….he is a religious nut…we desperately need to win the election….and the same fools are not helping…
What the GOP establishment wanted last week for “Super Tuesday” was for their guy, Mitt Romney, to put this thing to bed. To do what John McCain and George W. Bush had done by Super Tuesday and lock up the nomination in the minds of GOP voters.
Instead, Mitt Romney spent a ton of dough, campaigned all over Ohio, carpet-bombed Santorum on TV…and ends up (as of this writing) in almost dead heat.
The mess we are now left with is the result: A lousy front-runner top weak to seize the nomination mantle, running against challengers too weak to beat him with their delegate tallies.
Mitt supporters say the only thing that matters is the delegate count. And they’re right—until Mitt’s the nominee. But what happens when November comes around and he needs actual VOTERS?
If there were a GOP back room, if there were a GOP national organization, they would look at these numbers and see that the very winnable race against Barack Obama is being squandered by crummy candidates. They’d get together and get a new one.
But those days are over. We’re stuck with the Incredible Shrinking Front-Runner, Mitt Romney.
Santorum and Gingrich only hurt him by further pledging to stay in this until the end. Again, moderate to right Independents are going to be left with that “Meh” feeling come November. Barbra Bush was right with her recent comments about how poorly this is being run.
Frankly, I am blaming Santorum and Gingrich. If they want the party to succeed, they need to bow out of the race.
yeah those GOP candidates are ehhh….funny
What happened to Ron Paul, he seemed 1 of the better candidates.
Gingrich: cheater, liar.
Santorum: Liar, religous nut
Romney: of these 3 the best 1, if only he would be himself and not try to be appease crowds by faking.
I’m so ashamed of my state for voting for Santorum…
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Ok, another thing that America should pay attention to is that, how much is TOO MUCH for a Religious nut in Rick Santorum???
The issue of Contraception is one thing—but now he wants to make Pornography illegal?
Hey, American Men—-HOW do you feel about that???
Give me a break! What’s next? I would never ever vote for this guy. He is tooooo extreme and that is what is going to knock him out in the end.