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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Romney Edges Out Santorum in Ohio, Takes Six States to Santorum's Three
CNSNews.com) – Mitt Romney squeezed a narrow victory in Ohio’s Republican
presidential primary overnight and won five other Super Tuesday states, but
Rick Santorum’s strong showing in the Buckeye state and three victories
elsewhere deprived the former Massachusetts governor of the type of decisive
sweep his campaign may have been hoping for.
A nail-biting count in the important battleground state ended with Romney
edging out Santorum by one percentage point, 38-37 percent, a margin
amounting to some 12,000 votes. Newt Gingrich came a distant third, with 14.
6 percent, and Ron Paul took 9.3 percent.
Romney won a comfortable vote in his home state, Massachusetts, and also won
primaries in Vermont and Virginia – where only he and Paul were on the
ballot – as well as the caucuses in Idaho and Alaska.
"On Nov. 6, we're going to stand united, not only having won an election,
but having saved a future," Romney told his supporters. "Tomorrow, we wake
up and we start again. And the next day, we'll do the same. And so we'll go,
day by day, step by step, door by door, heart to heart. There will be good
days. There will be bad days. Always long hours, never enough time to get
everything done."
Santorum won the Tennessee and Oklahoma primaries, and the North Dakota
caucuses.
"This was a big night tonight -- lots of states. We're going to win a few,
we're going to lose a few," Santorum told his supporters Tuesday night. "We
went up against enormous odds -- not just here in the state of Ohio, where
who knows how much we were outspent -- but in every state. We are in this
thing not because i so badly want to be the most powerful man in this
country. It's because I want so badly to return the power to you in this
country."
Gingrich won by a sizeable margin in Georgia, the former House Speaker’s
adopted home state, but fell just short of the 50 percent total needed to
secure all 34 delegates awarded for the statewide result. Instead he will
share the 34 proportionally with Romney, who exceeded the 20 percent
threshold required under the state’s rules. Georgia awards an additional 42
delegates, proportionally, based on showings in the 14 congressional
districts.
Gingrich on Tuesday night described himself as the "tortoise" in the race,
who gets there in the end.
Although Paul scored no overall victories, he enjoyed some strong results.
The congressman from Texas pipped Santorum to the post for a second-place
finish (14 points behind winner Romney) in Vermont, and also took second
place in North Dakota (11 points behind winner Santorum.)
Paul also did creditably in Virginia, where he took 40.6 percent of the
votes to Romney’s 59.4 percent. (He and Romney were the only two on the
ballot.) Paul took third place in Massachusetts and Alaska, and was fourth
in Tennessee, Ohio, Oklahoma and Georgia.
On Tuesday night, Paul said addressed "the many young people" who came out
to cheer for him: "I think you're realizing you're getting a bad rap for
what you're inheriting. You'd like a much better deal. And the better deal
can be found in less government and only sending people to Washington who
have actually read the Constitution and will obey the Constitution and take
their oath of office seriously."
Most of the states involved in Tuesday’s process award delegates on a
proportional basis, so a good second-place result can net a candidate almost
as many delegates as a win. |
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