Rick Santorum Picks Up Delegates With Victory In 2012 Kansas Caucus

WASHINGTON — Rick Santorum won 33 of the 40 delegates at stake in the Kansas Republican presidential caucuses Saturday, but Mitt Romney countered by winning delegates in Wyoming and three U.S territories.

Delegates won by each candidate in Saturday's contests:

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Kansas

Mitt Romney: 7

Rick Santorum: 33

Newt Gingrich : 0

Ron Paul: 0

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Virgin Islands

Romney: 4 (Romney already had endorsements from the three Republican National Committee members, who are automatic delegates).

Santorum: 0

Gingrich: 0

Paul: 1

Uncommitted: 1

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Guam

Romney: 9, including the 3 RNC delegates

Santorum: 0

Gingrich: 0

Paul: 0

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Northern Mariana Islands

Romney: 9, including the 3 RNC delegates

Santorum: 0

Gingrich: 0

Paul: 0

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Wyoming(asterisk)

Romney: 7

Santorum: 3

Gingrich: 0

Paul: 1

Uncommitted: 1

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Overall totals to date

Romney: 454

Santorum: 217

Gingrich: 107

Paul: 47

Needed to win the GOP nomination: 1,144

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Note: Wyoming concluded a series of county conventions that started Tuesday, awarding a total of 12 delegates throughout the week.

Comments

[dallasnew]

02:42 AM on 03/12/2012

Winning Kansas is irrelevant at best and a Badge of shame at worst! Even the Kansas newspapers recognized that the state is so out-of-whack that it holds no relevance for a general election. But, delegates are delegates, so Santorum won in a state that he had in the bag, thanks to the state governor and ultra-right wing stance. I wonder why Romney won 20% of the vote? Could there be a pocket of rationality in Kansas? Apparently so because Santorum did win unanimously w/in every state county.

[PTAOfficerforObama]

08:34 PM on 03/10/2012

Seems like they came out even for the day...

[Thinkingclearly]

06:23 PM on 03/10/2012

I'm betting that Romney read Jason Plouffe's book cover to cover three times -- and required it of his campaign manager too. I remember seeing an Excel spreadsheet where the Obama campaign had projected the delegate count in all 50 states and the territories - and it was pretty close. Look at it here - Kansas has a caucus and Santorum gets 53 delegates. Romney has a few people over in the VI and Guam - and picks up some "cheap" votes too - and picks up 23!! How is it that they have that many?

Also, he's been shopping for the past few years with his SuperPac and so he's getting the endorsements of about 80% of the elected Congressmen and Republican governors - and so those votes are relatively easy - plus they have some impact with the leadership in each of the states. He seems to have the state GOP leadership in his pocket too - see Iowa, Maine, Nevada and other states where funny things happened when it came to counting (or not counting votes) or delegate selection.

The man may come across as awkward on stage but he's got a very methodical approach to all of this -- and it worked for a couple decades at Bain. I think we'll see an election where Barack Obama wins the popular vote and Romney wins the electoral college - especially because Pennsylvania's no longer a winner-take-all for the electoral college, I'm afraid we'll lose.

See www.kingofbain.com for

[john rajah]

06:02 AM on 03/11/2012

Scary

[jc52e52]

04:59 PM on 03/10/2012

By perfecting his pick up line, Santorum picks up 32 delegates.