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Mitt Romney Closes on 1,144 Delegate Target With Tuesday Sweep

April 25, 2012 RSS Feed Print

Mitt Romney's supporters have a message for the doubters today: 844.

That's the number of delegates that the former Massachusetts governor has garnered in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, with 1,144 needed to win the prize. He's only 300 short of the magic number, according to estimates by the Associated Press.

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Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania has 260 delegates; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has 137, and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas has 79.

Santorum has already dropped out of the race, and Gingrich's campaign is hanging on by a thread. Paul is aiming to remain an influence in the GOP and nationally with his libertarian brand of conservatism, but is not considered a real threat for the nomination.

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The next nominating contests are in Indiana, North Carolina, and West Virginia on May 8, followed by Nebraska and Oregon on May 15; Kentucky and Arizona on May 22, and Texas on May 29. It's possible that Romney could reach 1,144 after Texas.

Romney's rivals have long argued that he isn't conservative enough and that many GOP voters won't accept him. But even though turnout apparently was low on Tuesday, Romney's latest victories in Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island suggest that his party is finally coalescing around him.

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Ken Walsh covers the White House and politics for U.S. News & World Report and writes a daily blog, "Ken Walsh's Washington." He can be reached at kwalsh@usnews.com, at Kenneth Walsh on Facebook, and on Twitter.

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Mitt lost his home state of mass this weekend. His Lt Gov. Healy was shown the door in Essex County. Only the blind sheeple vote Mitt...like Zombies crying... ROOOAAADDS ...someone make bigger government so we can make more ROOOOAAADDSS.
And Paul also swept Louisiana and Alaska.

Kevin McKernan of MA 5:40PM April 30, 2012

Ron Paul WON Iowa, Minnesota and Colorado, Washington State. I know there are others too.
The true delegates count?
Romney with approx. 600
Ron Paul with around 400,
despite the establishment’s desperate attempt to have people believe otherwise. It’s very likely much closer than that.
The older and ignorant mainstream-news-believing supporters of mostly Romney and Gingrich are losing out as a result of being left out of the loop.
Romney is truly only supposedly leading the race currently, despite having an almost identical political record and historical political philosophy as Barack Obama, because of how incredibly hard the media has pushed him as the “likely” candidate, including misleading its unwitting followers about who’s actually winning. Romney politically resembles Obama and is the most likely to continue 'their' major campaign contributors' "1%'r" political agendas.
People are waking up and now CNN, knows they’ve lost the majority of their viewers over the last couple years, about 1/2 of their viewers, so now they're reporting a few honest stories about Ron Paul and still having a chance to win the republican nomination.
Santorum’s "young" Delegates have decided to side with Paul, now clearing the way for what looks to be an almost certain “brokered” National Convention in Aug.
Perhaps, as it is now playing out, one of the main reasons for the establishment elite to keep desperately pushing incredibly overreaching internet censorship bills like SOPA and now CISPA is because of what is now ironically playing out, right under much of America’s nose.
Google "Elite media killing Romney 2012" and find the truth... Then Google "Reality Check: Infighting at More GOP Caucuses and What the MSM Won't Tell You About Iowa and Minnesota"
Do your research people. No more TV. They are lies and manipulation. WAKE UP!

Love4ourHumans of NC 11:48PM April 27, 2012

If anyone I would like to see DROP from this race is that KOOK Ron Paul! How ignorant of him to waste these poor people's money on his wild DELUSION of his when everyone else, Santorum and Gingrigh, who had far more delegates than him, have already droped.
Not to mention, this is his third time round! And it's the same "conspiracy" theory nonesense as last timel... someone in his family needs to seriously start thinking of what Old Folks home to put him in!

Kseniya Wiliams of MO 10:58PM April 26, 2012

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