Santorum wins Kansas caucuses
Source: NBC
NBC News has declared Rick Santorum as the projected winner of the Kansas Republican presidential caucuses. With more than 70 percent of the precincts reporting, Santorum had 53 percent of the vote, with the remainder scattered among his rivals Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas.
With 40 delegates at stake in Kansas, Santorum's victory will give him momentum as he and the other GOP presidential hopefuls sprint towards Tuesdays primaries in Alabama and Mississippi.
Santorum seeks to squeeze Gingrich out of the race, leaving the former Pennsylvania senator as the sole alternative to Romney, who leads in the delegate tally, with 363 delegates, according to the NBC News count, more than three times as many delegates as either Santorum or Gingrich have won.
Read more: http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/10/10634057-santorum-wins-kansas-caucuses
polichick
(37,152 posts)Oh yeah, THAT!
underpants
(182,848 posts)perdita9
(1,144 posts)I'd love to see Rick Santorum get the nomination. He'd be the best job creator ever for late night comics.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)because he said he wants to see Conservatism being debated. And what better person to represent
hard-right Conservatism than Frothy?
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)I don't think there are any conservatives left in the GOP. Calling Rick Santorum (or Rick Perry, Michele Bachman, Herman Cain or Rush Limbaugh) a conservative is like calling Stalin a New Deal liberal.
Shadowflash
(1,536 posts)Even the bacteria on the underside of my toilet seat lid could beat him in the general election.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)All I ask for Christmas is a completely chaotic convention with 122 ballots.
Then they can nominate whoever they want.
golfguru
(4,987 posts)FarLeftFist
(6,161 posts)Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,274 posts)quakerboy
(13,920 posts)It looks like he once again wins more contests, as many delegates, and yet Santorum gets the headline.
As far as I can tell it goes like this
Kansas: Santorum 33, rmoney 7
Guam: Rmoney 9
Northern Marianias: Rmoney 9
Us Virgin Islands: Rmoney 7, Paul 1
Rmoney has over 1/2 of the total delegates awarded thus far. If Rmoney continues to take 1/2 of the remaining delegates in each contest as they continue on, I believe that makes him the Republican candidate for president. Mathematically, of course, although maybe not in the hearts of GOP voters.
eppur_se_muova
(36,274 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)...I think he gets all the delegates
Mr.Turnip
(645 posts)Same with Lincoln County.
And even more counties are reporting with 0 votes.
DocMac
(1,628 posts)Must've been somethning really good on teevee. Haha
jmowreader
(50,561 posts)At this point, a lot of the rank-and-file Republicans are probably thinking that none of the four are worth putting in the White House, and they'd be better off replaying 1996--picking someone for whom being selected as the candidate for president will be a good way to close out a political career and letting Obama, who IS, contrary to what the clown car is saying, a decent, centrist president, finish fixing the economy.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)Since the caucus is done by Senate district, probably those people in Lincoln county had to drive to another county, because a Senate district is about 70,000 people.
At least that is how Democrats did it - one caucus site per state senate district.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Parts of Kansas are very sparsely populated. It's a very long drive to caucus in many senate districts.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)...eww...
War Pigs
(252 posts)Yavin4
(35,444 posts)with confidence after his big win tonight.
Owlet
(1,248 posts)Huge turnout..riiight...
http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results/2012/gop-primary/ks
existentialist
(2,190 posts)was just barely over 3.9% of registered Republicans
totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)eyewall
(674 posts)are cut up like the state is a pan of brownies.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)"Santorum wins Kansas. Romney wins Little River Band. Gingrich wins Foghat. Paul still hoping to nab Firefall."
--John Moe
http://www.witstream.com/#tweetthepress
I know it's dumb, but it made me laugh.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)Yikes. When we caucused for Obama in 2008, the local middle school gym was packed. We stood in rows of 50 and there were maybe 20 of them. Does anyone have the numbers for Johnson County for 2008?
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)At my caucus site, people went out and bought coffee and hot cocoa after they voted for those still in line. There had to have been 3000 voters at my caucus location alone.
It was such a wonderful experience!!