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’s ability to buy over Santorum’s ability to BS.
The Louisiana primary was a boost for Rick Santorum’s presidential hopes. But while Santorum led front-runner Mitt Romney by a wide margin in Louisiana’s popular vote Saturday (49-27 percent), the results did little to close the delegate gap between the two.
Meanwhile, between now and early May the GOP primary schedule – northern states with large urban populations – favors Romney, who already has major advantages in campaign funds and organization.
"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."
Santorum notched a mere five-delegate advantage over Romney in Louisiana. But the former Massachusetts governor has accumulated twice as many delegates as Santorum – 568 to 273.
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…
Inserted from <Christian Science Monitor>
Here are the results:
Louisiana
Goose Stepper
Votes
Percent
Delegates
Santorum
91,305
49%
10
Romney
49,749
28%
5
Gingrich
29,655
16%
0
Paul
11,460
6%
0
Total
182,169
And here is the latest delegate estimate:
Delegates
Romney
568
Santorum
273
Gingrich
137
Paul
71
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.
Romney’s unpopularity in the south will play a greater role in the general election.
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Rick Santorum, Louisiana, and “somehow hopeful” Mitt Romney –
The part that could be scary is that 91,305 in Louisiana went to poles and voted for Rick Santorum, or it might be “somehow hopeful” that they came by the thousands to vote not for Rick but more against Mitt Romney.
If 27% is the best money can buy in Louisiana their might be light at the end of the election tunnel. Somehow I think is a little more complex than the number implied. A religious conservative plays better than rich “Magic Etch A Sketch” in the bubble that contains the mind of 91,305 in Louisiana. What are the pieces missing in the puzzle of their education that would rally support of unsupportable delusions? To visit the alien planted that is an ignorant mind is a longer trip that I will indulge currently….I need to pick-up something for the wife…out…till then… “We can do better”…
Welcome DB. 🙂
I think it’s a meeting of apathy, ignorance, and hatred.
Wonder which one of them will run as VP? or should I say which one of them will be the bottom?
How about Cain with a sex change screaming “Nueve, Nueve, Nueve!”?
McDonald has been mentioned a few times.
“Romney still needs to get to 1,144 to win the nomination. ”
Reminds me of the segment on Jay Leno where two white boxers (Romney &Santorum) knocked each other out at the same time with the Black Referee still standing… President Obama re-elected…. Wink 😉
May Jay’s Joke become real!
From the article — “This is clearly still an open race,” Gingrich said in a statement Saturday night – obviously an assertion based more on campaign bravado than on fact. Under Louisiana’s delegate distribution rules, he failed to win a single one.
With Gingrich sinking lower and lower in the Republican/Teabagger sky, I wonder when he will bow out, despite his commitment to stay in until the end. If he were to drop out now and throw all his delegates to Santorum, the latter would have 410 delegates, still short of Rmoney’s 568, based on above numbers. Lessen the gap, yes, close the gap, no. And now they are headed into the northern states, states more likely to favour Rmoney. Despite what Gingrich said, I don’t think this is as open a race as claimed. And Gingrich, I don’t think he can bow out because his immense ego won’t allow him, not to mention his wife!
As long as he can live off his billionaire, he will.
Romney’s unpopularity in the south will play a greater role in the general election.
What role do you think it will play? Do you think it will depress Republican voter turn-out enough that he might actually fail to carry states like Alabama or Louisiana?
I doubt it, but it could make a difference in Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri, and Florida.
Did Louisianna really need the froth on top of the oil spill?
No. 😉
Only in the South? As far as I’m concerned, Romney gets a big fat zero no matter where he is! 🙂
True, but the biggest zero of all is Ron Paul.