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UPDATE (12:09 a.m.)
It’s over: Fox News called Michigan for Mitt Romney.
He probably won 46-50 delegates up there tonight; Santorum won’t walk away with more than 4. Officially, Romney is now up by approximately 32,000 votes with over 93% reporting.
He’s doing very well in populated suburban counties AND among Catholics; Rick Santorum is winning in the evangelical west.
Heading into tonight, the final RCP average showed a much closer races than that which ultimately materialized: Mitt Romney up just 1.5% in Michigan. By contrast, he led Senator Santorum by 15.5% in Arizona. So all eyes were on the Wolverine State, Save Jerseyans!
Exit polls reported “electability” as the top issue for primary voters. Interestingly, exit polls also suggested that 53% of Democrat participants voted for Santorum (it’s an “open” primary, a fact that the Santorum camp has controversially tried to exploit).
For the sake of establishing a point of reference, Mitt Romney beat John McCain in the 2008 GOP primary, 38.9% (338,316 votes) to 29.7% (257,985 votes). As of 12:09 a.m, Mitt was at well over 400k.
Matt Rooney
Brian McGovern
Ed Sheppard
Matt DeLuca
Irwin M. Fletcher
James Beattie
Joshua Einstein
Michael Ward
There goes the election. Mittens will sink us!
How is it fair that each state has radically different delegate awarding schemes?
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