CoolBlue71
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http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...--Santorum-each-pick-up-delegates-in-Michigan
Michigan was really a win for Rick Santorum. Delegates will be about even: 15 to 15. (If not, it would be 14 for Santorum to 16 for Mitt Romney.) The delegates are awarded through the states' 14 congressional districts. Two [2] for each of those districts. The remaining two delegates are awarded to represent the winner of the statewide vote.
Romney won Michigan in 2008 by over 9 percentage points before the Republican nomination was won by John McCain. Four years later, with Romney considered the 2012 frontrunner for his party's nomination, he underperformed and carried Michigan just over 3 points.
Michigan is Romney's birth state. His father, George Romney (1907-1995), was governor in the 1960s. This was during the presidencies of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. (He won elections in 1962 and 1966.) And Michigan tends to give the type of Republican support, at a statewide level, for those types who seemed closer suited to the era of the Moderate Republican. (Example: Rick Snyder, not Pete Hoesktra, having won the 2010 Republican nomination for Governor of Michigan.)
Arizona, which awards 100 percent of its 29 delegates to the winner of the statewide vote, was the successful Feb. 28, 2012 result for Mitt Romney. Had Mich. not had half its delegates reduced, for having violated national party rules by holding the primary early, he'd have the same level of delegates with Mich. that are coming from Ariz. In this case, Romney gets double from Ariz., the No. 16 state in the nation to Mich.'s No. 8.
Michigan was really a win for Rick Santorum. Delegates will be about even: 15 to 15. (If not, it would be 14 for Santorum to 16 for Mitt Romney.) The delegates are awarded through the states' 14 congressional districts. Two [2] for each of those districts. The remaining two delegates are awarded to represent the winner of the statewide vote.
Romney won Michigan in 2008 by over 9 percentage points before the Republican nomination was won by John McCain. Four years later, with Romney considered the 2012 frontrunner for his party's nomination, he underperformed and carried Michigan just over 3 points.
Michigan is Romney's birth state. His father, George Romney (1907-1995), was governor in the 1960s. This was during the presidencies of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. (He won elections in 1962 and 1966.) And Michigan tends to give the type of Republican support, at a statewide level, for those types who seemed closer suited to the era of the Moderate Republican. (Example: Rick Snyder, not Pete Hoesktra, having won the 2010 Republican nomination for Governor of Michigan.)
Arizona, which awards 100 percent of its 29 delegates to the winner of the statewide vote, was the successful Feb. 28, 2012 result for Mitt Romney. Had Mich. not had half its delegates reduced, for having violated national party rules by holding the primary early, he'd have the same level of delegates with Mich. that are coming from Ariz. In this case, Romney gets double from Ariz., the No. 16 state in the nation to Mich.'s No. 8.
. Dems supporting Santorum - cynic much ?
You agreed to keep that our little secret.
