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MaineDem

(18,161 posts)
Sat Mar 10, 2012, 04:31 PM Mar 2012

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 Tuesday’s 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

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Santorum wins Kansas caucuses (Original Post) MaineDem Mar 2012 OP
What's the matter with Kansas?.. polichick Mar 2012 #1
Exactly underpants Mar 2012 #6
! Bozita Mar 2012 #10
Great news for Democrats! perdita9 Mar 2012 #2
Lawrence O'Donnell wanted Santorum to get the nod Jamaal510 Mar 2012 #9
It won't be conservatism that is being debated. Jack Rabbit Mar 2012 #20
Same here. Shadowflash Mar 2012 #15
Don't care who gets it just want this infighting to go as long as possible. grantcart Mar 2012 #17
Don't get your hope too high golfguru Mar 2012 #26
The guy Santorum, or the stuff Santorum? FarLeftFist Mar 2012 #3
There's no difference. Bohunk68 Mar 2012 #12
But but but we've already warmed up the oil to anoint Rmoney! nt eppur_se_muova Mar 2012 #4
To be fair to Rmoney quakerboy Mar 2012 #27
So we should use hotter oil ? nt eppur_se_muova Mar 2012 #28
If he keeps them under 20% then... hrmjustin Mar 2012 #5
hahah Scott County, 100% reporting 0 total votes. Mr.Turnip Mar 2012 #7
Whole counties with zero votes? lol DocMac Mar 2012 #13
Or four really, really BAD Republican candidates jmowreader Mar 2012 #19
Lincoln county only has 3261 people hfojvt Mar 2012 #23
Probably couldn't afford the gas to drive to the caucus site proud2BlibKansan Mar 2012 #29
Feel The Frothmentum! onehandle Mar 2012 #8
maybe the mormons will pre-post humously baptise ricky and take away his mojo??? War Pigs Mar 2012 #11
Santorum Oozes... Yavin4 Mar 2012 #14
Breakdown by County Owlet Mar 2012 #16
turnout existentialist Mar 2012 #21
Good. The longer this stretches out the better. n/t totodeinhere Mar 2012 #18
wow — the counties in Kansas eyewall Mar 2012 #22
As on comic said... JaneQPublic Mar 2012 #24
only 3000 votes for Santorum in Johnson County? greymattermom Mar 2012 #25
We stood in raining ice that night proud2BlibKansan Mar 2012 #30
The flat earthers love Santorum. sarcasmo Mar 2012 #31

perdita9

(1,144 posts)
2. Great news for Democrats!
Sat Mar 10, 2012, 04:34 PM
Mar 2012

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)
9. Lawrence O'Donnell wanted Santorum to get the nod
Sat Mar 10, 2012, 05:22 PM
Mar 2012

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)
20. It won't be conservatism that is being debated.
Sat Mar 10, 2012, 10:57 PM
Mar 2012

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)
15. Same here.
Sat Mar 10, 2012, 07:34 PM
Mar 2012

Even the bacteria on the underside of my toilet seat lid could beat him in the general election.

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
17. Don't care who gets it just want this infighting to go as long as possible.
Sat Mar 10, 2012, 07:53 PM
Mar 2012

All I ask for Christmas is a completely chaotic convention with 122 ballots.

Then they can nominate whoever they want.

quakerboy

(13,920 posts)
27. To be fair to Rmoney
Sun Mar 11, 2012, 03:36 PM
Mar 2012

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.

Mr.Turnip

(645 posts)
7. hahah Scott County, 100% reporting 0 total votes.
Sat Mar 10, 2012, 05:06 PM
Mar 2012

Same with Lincoln County.

And even more counties are reporting with 0 votes.

jmowreader

(50,561 posts)
19. Or four really, really BAD Republican candidates
Sat Mar 10, 2012, 09:00 PM
Mar 2012

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)
23. Lincoln county only has 3261 people
Sun Mar 11, 2012, 12:21 AM
Mar 2012

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)
29. Probably couldn't afford the gas to drive to the caucus site
Sun Mar 11, 2012, 07:05 PM
Mar 2012

Parts of Kansas are very sparsely populated. It's a very long drive to caucus in many senate districts.

JaneQPublic

(7,113 posts)
24. As on comic said...
Sun Mar 11, 2012, 01:10 AM
Mar 2012

"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)
25. only 3000 votes for Santorum in Johnson County?
Sun Mar 11, 2012, 01:50 AM
Mar 2012

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)
30. We stood in raining ice that night
Sun Mar 11, 2012, 07:09 PM
Mar 2012

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!!

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