President ’12
It looks like Mitt Romney is on his way to a victory in tonight’s Illinois primary, with something close to 50% of the vote (CNN results available here). All 4 remaining GOP contenders were on the ballot, and Ron Paul is hovering around 9%, so even if 100% of Rick Santorum’s plus Newt Gingrich’s votes…
Mitt Romney won Republican caucuses by large margins in Hawaii and in American Samoa last night. According to CNN, his victory in American Samoa by itself was enough to close Santorum’s delegate advantage from earlier in the evening, 9 delegates from American Samoa erasing a 9 delegate advantage Santorum had won in Alabama. (CNN is…
According to CNN, it looks like we’re headed for Santorum-Gingrich-Romney finishing 1-2-3 in both Alabama and Misssissippi, where a total of 90 delegates are at stake. (American Samoa and Hawaii also have caucuses that close later tonight, where 29 more delegates will be awarded). Because of the proportional (Misssissippi) and almost-proportional (Alabama) delegate allocation rules…
Supporters of the “National Popular Vote” interstate compact for Presidential elections frequently explain that one of their goals is to have to have Presidential candidates pay attention to more than just a handful of “swing states” during their general election campaigns. But Rhode Island has the ability to increase its share of Presidential campaign attention…
Here is the delegate total, according to CNN (including North Dakota, whose delegates according to the RNC are unbound), from last night’s Super-Tuesday primaries:Mitt Romney 200 Rick Santorum 73 Newt Gingrich 67 Ron Paul 24Also, according to the RNC website, there were no winner-take-all races last night. A majority of states allocated A) a portion…
Here is the schedule of poll closing times for tonight’s Super-Tuesday primaries. 7:00 pmGeorgia (Primary) Vermont (Primary) Virginia (Primary)7:30 pmOhio (Primary)8:00 pmMassachusetts (Primary) Oklahoma (Primary) Tennessee (Primary)9:00 pmNorth Dakota (Caucuses)About 10:00 pmIdaho (Caucuses)12:00 amAlaska (Caucuses) The Republican National Committee has the delegate allocation rules available here.
Multiple media sources are now reporting that Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have evenly split the delegates awarded in yesterday’s Michigan primary. CNN reports…Of the 30 delegates at stake, Romney took 15 and Santorum took 15, with zero unallocated as of late Wednesday afternoon. The numbers will not be final until the state certifies its…
CBS News is projecting Mitt Romney as the winner of the Michigan primary. He has a 41% to 38% lead over Rick Santorum, with about 80% of precincts reporting. Ron Paul is 3rd at 12%, Newt Gingrich is 4th with 7%. And with a little over 50% of precints reporting in Arizona, Romney leads with…
According to the RI Secretary of State‘s office, Buddy Roemer has qualified for the April 24 Rhode Island Presidential primary. This should complete the primary field (unless signatures are being counted strictly in the order they came in, and all of the signatures for Mark Callahan were submitted after the other candidates’ were, which is…
Rick Santorum has become the 4th GOP contender qualified by the RI Secretary of State for placement on Rhode Island’s April 24 Presidential primary ballot, joining Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul.
