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Wisconsin, D.C., Md. Put Romney More Than Halfway to GOP Nod

April 4, 2012 RSS Feed Print

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney moved well past the halfway point in the delegate count for the GOP nomination by winning three more primaries Tuesday.

His position as the Republican front-runner is now very solid, and it would take a political miracle for main rival Rick Santorum or anyone else to overtake him.

[Read Santorum Vows to Stay in Race]

Romney emerged with a commanding lead of 655 delegates out of the 1,144 needed for the nomination. Former Pennsylvania Senator Santorum has 278 delegates; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has 135, and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas has 51, according to the Associated Press.

Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, won the key battleground state of Wisconsin Tuesday with 42.5 percent of the vote to Santorum's 37.7 percent. Romney won Maryland over Santorum, 48.8 percent to 29.2 percent. He won the District of Columbia with 70.2 percent; Santorum didn't qualify for the ballot there.

Romney needs to win 40 percent of the delegates yet to be chosen and Santorum needs more than 70 percent.

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The next tests come April 24 with primaries in Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. Romney is favored in all those states except Pennsylvania, Santorum's home state, but even there Romney is gaining in the opinion polls.

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The GOP says they are for smaller government, it turns out they are for communist government. To them ANY actions justify the means. So sure are they of their fundamental beliefs that they think any actions justify the results.

In one state in America, the GOP has suspended Democracy by dismantling and removing democratically elected officials and placing a tsar in control of whole parts of the states. Within those areas the citizens have no democratic rights and no representation.

They then moved to throw out the state constitution and pas their own laws and rules completely ignoring their own constitution. And finally they removed the rights of the minority party to even vote.

For all intents and purposes the rule of law has been suspended, Democracy has been suspended, the minorities have lost their right to democratically elected representation and the GOP has installed fundamentalist extremist rule.

In fact its not so much communist Russia as it is a fundamentalist extremist state with dictatorial rule….much like Iran. And this is happening in America

I wish this was some sort of joke article or some sort of exaggeration, but the story I am writing about has been covered in the Post, the NY Times and other mainstream news organizations…..but no one seems to care…..Do you?

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brian of MD 2:55AM April 06, 2012

Mitt Romney is a robot clown who CAN NOT beat Obama. The problem is with the Republican electorate that believes articles like this one, and believe the establishment's facade of Mitt Romney being an "electable" candidate, with the full endorsement of the G.O.P's most entrenched neocons. What a joke this has become, and how foolish can people be to actually support an empty-suit puppet like Romney!

It's either Ron Paul or 4 more years of Obama!

Ron Paul 2012!!

Bob Vondruska of CA 3:22PM April 04, 2012

Santorum is clearly dead in the water, but wait...Romney is on board with the GOP/Ryan budget which aims to destroy Medicare and Social Security. Are these extremist measure going to play well with the general electorate? Not likely, so who else will Romney be able to count on other than the Tea/Party/redneck crowd that is obsessed and blinded by their hatred for Obama? Will the American Christian Taliban vote for a Mormon? Not with any enthusiasm. The GOP has end-played themselves into a losing position.

jefflz of CA 12:22PM April 04, 2012

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