Romney wins pivotal Michigan primary as well as Arizona

[onehandle]

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DEARBORN, Mich.-- Mitt Romney secured an important win Tuesday night over Rick Santorum in Michigan in addition to handily winning Arizona ahead of Super Tuesday.

"We didn't win by a lot, but we won by enough and that's all that counts," Romney told a crowd gathered at his primary night victory party in Novi, Mich.

In Michigan, Romney held a 3 percent lead-- 41 to 38 percent over former Pennsylvania Sen. Santorum-- with 76 percent of precincts reporting. Texas Rep. Ron Paul received 12 percent and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich received 7 percent of the vote.

A loss for Romney in Michigan-- the state where he was born and raised and where his father served as governor-- would have been highly problematic for his campaign and would have virtually guaranteed a protracted primary election season.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-wins-arizona-awaits-pivotal-michigan-results-020325760.html

Vote in the poll on the page. The answer is 'no,' Romney does not have things 'wrapped up.'

[bluestateguy]

1. That's nice, but I'm going to wait for all votes to be counted before I make MY PROJECTION

The media elites won't push me around.

[L. Coyote]

19. 88% reporting = Mitt winning by 3%

MICHIGAN
results
88% in 30 delegates

projected winner
Mitt Romney 41% 376,807 delegates 5
Rick Santorum 38% 346,424 3
Ron Paul 12% 107,150 0
Newt Gingrich 7% 59,798 0
Uncommitted 2% 17,091 0

[bluestateguy]

23. Nope. Nope, nope, nope.

If the margin widens I might be willing to call it when 99% of the votes are in.

[MrMickeysMom]

2. Any idea what the margin is?

[IamK]

5. 42% / 37%

[existentialist]

6. It was about 4% a little while ago.

That was about 41% to 37%.

Santorum looked to be winning a lot of rural areas that don't have a lot of votes.

Romney tended to win urban areas (like Wayne County in particular) that have a lot of votes.

Paul had about 11%.

Gingrich had about 5.5 %

about 75% of precincts were in.

[MrMickeysMom]

12. Yeah... there are about 9 guys in the UP...

One of them are no doubt in my family...

[existentialist]

15. Indded

Santorum won one of the Counties in the UP by one vote.

Romney won exactly two counties in the UP. One of them by four votes, and one of them by one vote.

[Tx4obama]

7. Currently it is 41% to 38%, link below

http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/primaries/state/mi?hpt=hp_pc1

it's not over yet.

[derby378]

3. We can only hope

FOX News proved in 2000 that projections are meaningless when elections can be stolen.

Still, any defeat for Santorum is a victory for our side.

[sarcasmo]

4. Magic Undies looks like he might roll super Tuesday.

Heard from many Republicans here in west Michigan who said they won't vote for a Mormon. Go Mitt Go.

[existentialist]

8. Western Michigan.

Indeed, Santorum seemd to be winning most of western Michigan, and most of the upper penisula, and most of the southern tier of counties that border on Ohio and Indiana.

But he lost Wayne County big, and lost a lot of other counties too.

[jimlup]

9. Detroit vote is critical for Romney and he's doing fine there.

This is a clear win for Mittens I believe and I also don't think that that is a bad thing for us.

[sarcasmo]

11. I'M thankfull that there are many more Dem voters in the south east

part of the state than the wing nuts we have over here west Michiagn.

[golfguru]

20. How bigoted?

Who else they won't vote based on religion? Muslims? Catholics? Baptists? Jews? Hindu's?
I was born a Hindu, the most tolerant and oldest religion in the world,
and proud to say I am not a religious bigot.

[sarcasmo]

21. Just relaying what more than a few "Christans" have told me.

[golfguru]

38. Oh I know you are 100% correct

Just go lurk on FreeRepublic to view all the bigoted comments by "Evangelical Christians" about Mormons.

[Ned_Devine]

10. Even if he wins...

...and it appears that he has, he is still a weak candidate

[mr_liberal]

18. So is Obama though. nm

[Obamacare]

25. I don't think so

Mittens barely won his home state, imagine if Obama had barely won HI. If folks are barely willing to vote for you in your home state, Houston we have a problem!!

[Major Nikon]

13. Michigan isn't winner take all, so Romney and Santimonious pretty much split the delegates

[Jim Lane]

17. Is it proportional over the state, or winner-take-all by Cong. District, or something else? (n/t)

[Major Nikon]

30. I believe it's proportional and I think the winner gets a few extra delegates

[Iliyah]

14. I don't trust the Michigan's governor

nor his minions. They have total control of many areas especially D areas. It smells, truly does. GOP cheating will move to Nov. if not caught.

[hayrow1]

22. Republican vote counters have a history of cheating, nothing new with that,

however, it would be tough to find a more pathetic pile of excrement candidate than Santorum. Too bad he lost to that despicable dog torturer. Romney should have been sharing a cell with Michael Vick.

[Tripod]

16. Really

[Rosa Luxemburg]

24. He looks like more like Dracula every day!

[Hissyspit]

26. I am so glad to hear that the one shitty hypocrite beat the other shitty hypocrite.

[targetpractice]

27. Personally, I hope Romney will be the nominee...

I know that Santorum would be much, much easier to defeat... But, I think that a contest with a well-funded Romney will keep alive and energize the conversation about the 1% vs the rest of us... And, I think that winning that debate would be ultimately more helpful for our society.

Am I being naive?

Woops... I wrote this 2 hours ago, but forgot to send. My bad.

Hope I get some feedback.

[Brettongarcia]

32. Romney's EASY to beat. "Vote for the rich"? Sound like a winner?

1) Just ask hardworking Reagan conservatives if they want to vote for a rich person? A "vulture capitalist."

2) Ask religious conservatives if they want a guy who a) is a Mormon, who b)"doesn't care about the very poor." And who c) flipflopped on abortion.

3) Ask people who admire the "self made man," if they want to vote for a man whose daddy was the head of AMC and gov. of Michigan, who just handed over all his contacts to his son.

The most interesting thing? This next election now shapes up as being primarily ... a referendum on capitalism; its about rich folks.

And on that turf? Demos win

[targetpractice]

36. Nicely put... "a referendum on capitalism"

I think the Republicans have been building up for years to have that very debate, but they've been blindsided by the popularity of Occupy Wall Street movement and the resonance of the "1% vs. 99%" message... That's why Romney, their pre-ordained candidate, seems to be incapable of articulating any sort of vision... Mitt Romney is Mr. Capitalism, the golden son of the one percent. Bleck... bad timing.

[BlueStater]

28. That sucks.

I was hoping Sick Rick could pull off a Michigan victory. I'm obviously no fan of him but I despise that boring phony Romney with a passion.

[Nah7anyule]

29. Now comes a moment of realization.

Sort of like a Guy walking up the street in Gatlinburg. with a "Tennessee walking stick" an oak boe with a copper cap on the ground side and a strop on the upper, looped to support the elbow. Brand new and shiny.
So the question of humor starts with statement. Wow! Thats A nice stick you have there.! He looks at it holds it up Yeah it is He says. Then the question+Q<E echo..... So how much did you pay for that stick? Realization that i know something. Realization seeks in.... the expression grows wise. Sort of humored by the knowledge of selfquirkyness. Then mitt Romney and the whole gop realizes they have to pic a VP. BTW the sticks then cost $40.00.

[Crunchy Frog]

31. I'm disappointed.

I was hoping that Frothy would hold out just a little longer before flaming out.

[RBInMaine]

33. 59% voted AGAINST Mittens. He still doesn't have the base which is split between Frothy and Grinch.

[quaker bill]

34. A close defeat for icky Rikky is +/- a good as a win

He did well enough to keep him in the hunt and Rmoney is still out there to "bring down". So what does Rikky do to "take it up a notch"? Had icky Rikky won one or both he could start acting smug and complacent, but coming just short and getting delegates probably causes hm to push for that little bit more.

I think things get colorful in OH, where the polls had icky Rikky well ahead days ago. It is probably alot closer now.

[DCBob]

35. A weak win for Romney was the best outcome for us.

He won but nobody is dropping out. Super Tuesday doesnt look particulary good for Romney at the moment. Ohio will be the most important race. Santorum is way ahead at the moment. But for sure Mittens gets a bump from last night. It probably gets ugly in Ohio and they will start bashing each other and most likely will leave some lasting damage which will no doubt benefit the President. Mittens will probably spend a truckload of money to win there because he knows Ohio could be the knock out blow. Blue-collar Ohio primary voters dont like Romney and Santorum is close to being their homeboy.

Also, the GOPer establishment is now somewhat statisifed and the talk of finding a "white knight" is over.. for the time being. Romney is back on track and could end it if he does well on Super Tuesday. However, Willard is a dependable gaffe machine. He could step in it again between now and Super Tuesday. If he bombs on ST it could get ugly again for the Mittster.

This clown show could go on for quite some time... which is good for us.

[66 dmhlt]

37. Good News: Vote Count Is DOWN in MI from 2008

With 100% of precincts reporting, yesterday's vote total was 835,542
That's almost 4% LOWER than 2008's total of 869,169

... AND the Running Tab Total is DOWN over 10% in 2012 compared to 2008 turnouts.

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2008_Republican_presidential_primaries#Michigan_primary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2012_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries#Michigan_primary