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WISCONSIN, MARYLAND REPUBLICAN PRIMARY RESULTS HQ

Posted on | April 3, 2012 | 95 Comments

UPDATE 10:50 p.m. ET: Chris Moody of Yahoo News writes about Santorum’s campaign in Wisconsin, which included visits to seven bowling alleys and more than a few beers:

He has arguably been one of the hardest working candidates in the race, having labored his way up from the bottom of the polls when he held events in Iowa that literally no one showed up for, to becoming the lead rival to the frontrunner. The man has only taken five days off the campaign trail since last summer, and spent most of that time eking his way along financially. With weak organization to speak of and an entourage that consisted of little more than the candidate and a friend with a Dodge Ram, Santorum went from being the candidate who could hardly get his name on the ballot in some states to becoming a household name.

Chris, you’re wrong: Santorum is not “arguably . . . one of the hardest working candidates,” he is the hardest working candidate, period. There is no argument. Nobody has out-worked this guy, and if it wasn’t for his hard work, he never would have won Iowa, let alone Missouri, Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Dakota, Kansas, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.

UPDATE 10:40 p.m. ET: In my local congressional district, Maryland’s 6th, incumbent Republican Rep. Roscoe Bartlett survives with 45% against 21% for David Brinkley, one of seven GOP challengers on the ballot.

In Wisconsin, it’s Romney 42%, Santorum 38% with 65% of precincts reporting. Remember that Romney spent more than $3 million airing attack ads against Santorum in Wisconsin, outspending the Santorum campaign 4-to-1 in advertising.

UPDATE 10:30 p.m. ET: Some good news: In the Maryland GOP Senate primary, with 60% of precincts reporting, Dan Bongino leads with 32% to 29% for Richard Douglas. A total of 10 candidates on the ballot in that primary, the winner facing Democrat Ben Cardin.

UPDATE 10:20 p.m. ET: Latest from Wisconsin: Romney 43% to Santorum’s 38%, with 42% of precincts reporting.

UPDATE 10:15 p.m. ET: Notice that Michelle Malkin directs her readers to “Latest MSM coverage of the D.C. and Maryland results here” — the link is to MSNBC. Their coverage of the Repubican presidential campaign has arguably been more fair and balanced than the Romney News Network.

Malkin endorsed Santorum in January.

BTW, according to an analysis by the New Yorker, when all is said and done, Romney will fall short of the 1,144 delegates needed to clinch.

Linked by Bob Belvedere at the Camp of the Saints — thanks!

UPDATE 9:50 p.m. ET: Fox News cut away from Rick Santorum’s speech tonight after a couple of minutes. With 19% of precincts reporting now in Wisconsin, it’s Romney 42%, Santorum 39%. The networks have already called Wisconsin for Romney, who is now giving an extraordinarily lame victory speech in Milwaukee.

Excuse the long delay in reporting. Got a late deadline tonight, so I took a brief nap.

UPDATE 8:30 p.m. ET: In early results in the Maryland GOP Senate primary, Dan Bongino leads Richard Douglas 34%-26% so far.

UPDATE 8:20 p.m. ET: The networks called Maryland for Mitt Romney as soon as the polls closed. With  5% of precincts reporting, it’s Romney 53%, Santorum 27% in Maryland.

PREVIOUSLY (7:56 p.m. ET)

Today, after covering the Republican primary campaign for months, I finally got to vote in a primary, casting my ballot here in Maryland for Rick Santorum and U.S. Senate candidate Dan Bongino.

Of course, Maryland is a very liberal state and, as such, is considered a shoo-in for the former governor of Massachusetts, so Mitt Romney will pick up 37 delegates in a state he’s got zero chance of winning in November. Because he’s inevitable! And electable!

Polls close at 8 p.m. ET in Maryland. Meanwhile, all eyes will be on Wisconsin, where polls close at 8 p.m. Central, 9 p.m ET. If you’re a Santorum supporter in Wisconsin, make sure you vote. If you’re a Romney supporter in Wisconsin, don’t bother — he’s a shoo-in! Inevitable! Electable! All that crap the talking heads on Fox News say!

Rick Santorum will have his election night event in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mars, Pa. The next round of primaries is three weeks away, April 24, and if Santorum can win his home state of Pennsylvania, he’s still in the game, no matter what the Fox News talking heads say. Santorum has already announced his Wednesday campaign schedule in Pennsyvania.

Category: Election 2012, Maryland, Wisconsin

Comments

95 Responses to “WISCONSIN, MARYLAND REPUBLICAN PRIMARY RESULTS HQ”

  1. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    April 3rd, 2012 @ 7:59 pm

    Rick really wants the cheese!

  2. Asian_chic
    April 3rd, 2012 @ 8:21 pm

    I heard a few people say that Newt supporters are voting for Santorum. Also, 70,000 calls made for Santorum to Wisconsin voters. 

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    April 3rd, 2012 @ 8:27 pm

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  4. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    April 3rd, 2012 @ 8:54 pm

    The good news is Newt supporters are voting for Santorum. The bad news is there are not many of them left.  

  5. Asian_chic
    April 3rd, 2012 @ 9:02 pm

    Trying to give myself hope. You just shattered it!

  6. JakeSnake
    April 3rd, 2012 @ 9:04 pm

    Don’t you think it’s unfair to say because more Democrats than Republicans live in a state, the Republicans that do live there simply MUST be closet liberals?  

    Do we then discount all Republicans that live outside of the RedStates?  Should the GOP just become a regional “Dixie Party”?

  7. Charles
    April 3rd, 2012 @ 9:47 pm

    We’ve now entered the stage of the game where Romney has hotels on all his properties, Gingrich is trying to sell his Get Out of Jail Free card, Paul just wants to get around to Go a few more times, and Santorum is reading the mortgage rules on the back of his Baltic and Mediterranean Avenue deeds.

    If only Mitt lands on Pennsylvania Railroad before Rick has to mortgage it. No, this game is not over. Not by a long shot.

  8. mlenz9
    April 3rd, 2012 @ 9:53 pm

    Well, with 7% of the precincts reporting, Romney leads Santorum by a whopping… 1600 votes.  So, of course, Romney’s projected to win!   (facepalm)

  9. Shelleys Playtime
    April 3rd, 2012 @ 9:55 pm

     HA! My cousins and I could make a Monopoly game last all summer long…

  10. Dave
    April 3rd, 2012 @ 10:21 pm

    with 42% of precincts reporting, Romney leads by 10,000 votes. Is that more convincing? Very rarely, the people who make ‘call’ predictions for the networks do make mistakes (see Florida 2000), but they do pretty much know what they’re doing.

  11. Shelleys Playtime
    April 3rd, 2012 @ 10:23 pm

    Tim Pawlenty just lied about Mitts record on gay marriage & abortion in Mass…WOW…1 in 5 voters said they would either stay home or vote for Obama in the general if Mitt is the nominee…

  12. Dave
    April 3rd, 2012 @ 10:32 pm

    Note that we got excited about similar numbers about Hillary vs Obama (which did not happen).

  13. Charles
    April 3rd, 2012 @ 10:50 pm

    Oh, this game is going until late May or June.

  14. Ford Prefect
    April 3rd, 2012 @ 11:21 pm

    This is why Mitt needs to choose a rock solid conservative running mate. He’s a goner without one.

  15. Finrod Felagund
    April 3rd, 2012 @ 11:33 pm

    Cry me a river regarding Romney ad-bombing Santorum in Wisconsin; Gingrich’s continued presence in the race previously has been the only thing keeping Romney from doing this all along.  Did you ever have any illusions after Romney’s aerial assault in Florida that those guns wouldn’t get turned on Santorum at some point?
     

  16. Shelleys Playtime
    April 3rd, 2012 @ 11:34 pm

     Man I HATE FOX during the primary season!

  17. Adjoran
    April 3rd, 2012 @ 11:49 pm

    I’m sure Romney would have much preferred to keep all the money he raised to roll over for the general election.   But he was strongly challenged and had to spend what it took to take them down.

    What’s amusing is the blatant hypocrisy  of those who couldn’t raise as much money and therefore pretend to be victims – as if they wouldn’t have used the money just as Romney did, had they been able to raise it.

    Also amusing is the idea that failure to raise enough money, qualify for all the ballots, and attract enough votes to win enough delegates is somehow not indicative a candidate isn’t ready for the big time.

  18. Shelleys Playtime
    April 3rd, 2012 @ 11:51 pm

    Is DC the only place Mitt actually received more votes than NOT Romney?

  19. Adjoran
    April 3rd, 2012 @ 11:56 pm

    It was apparent this was over not after Super Tuesday as the Romney camp claimed, but when Santorum had his best streak of the campaign in contests where actual delegates were awarded by winning Kansas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana while losing only Puerto Rico and Illinois, yet still fell even further behind in the delegate count.

    As to Stacy’s oft-repeated claim that the Missouri Caucuses wouldn’t DARE vote any other way than their non-binding primary dictated, it seems the Republicans in that state aren’t readers of TOM.  Already in a couple of the larger counties (including the biggest) won clearly by Santorum in the beauty contest, Romney and Paul supporters joined forces and took control of all the delegates sent to state convention.

    Well played by those guys, eh?  Even if it tends to invite another paranoid rant about conspiracies dark and dank.

  20. JakeSnake
    April 4th, 2012 @ 12:00 am

    So if Democrats weren’t voting in the GOP Primary, Mitt would have won by about 13 points in WI according to exit polling.  The Kos Kidz turned out in droves for Santorum, I’m sure it’s because they liked his stance on birth control.

    I don’t blame Liberals for wanting Santorum, Obama would have a layup, and his 2nd term he would have had both a Democrat House and Senate.

    I’m actually looking forward to Mitt stomping Santorum in the ground in his home state of PA.  He deserves a thorough humiliation for dragging it out this long just to raise his profile.

    Hell, even Newt could win his home state.

  21. JakeSnake
    April 4th, 2012 @ 12:07 am

    What’s the vote total on NotSantorum?  I lost track.

  22. Anamika
    April 4th, 2012 @ 12:24 am

    I just want to add… [file this in Robert Stacy McCain’s
    Classic Cognitive Biases category.]

    Stacy McCain laments: “Mitt Romney will pick up 37 delegates in a state he’s got zero chance of winning in November. ”

    Of course he conveniently doesn’t realize that all the (seven) states Santorum won since Super Tuesday — Lousiana, Mississipi, Alabama, Kansas, Oklahama, Tennessee, North Dakota– are those where Romney has almost zero chance of losing.

    So what has Santorum’s got to show? Iowa, Colorado, Missouri, Minnesota. The last of which is a state he’s got zero chance of winning.

    Three freaking states so far? In the same vien, how many Romney can tout? You do the math.

  23. Jasonstewart2
    April 4th, 2012 @ 12:30 am

    If Romney is the standard bearer, are Santorum’s continued attacks benefiting the party or Obama?  I get the fact that Mitt has warts.  Some are pretty ugly.  Some of Santorum’s are sickening (supporting Arlen).  Some of the Santorum attack’s reek of desperation.  I find it somewhat tragic….

  24. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    April 4th, 2012 @ 1:20 am

    Too bad these are winner take alls, but a good showing.  

    I do not care for Robert Reich, but damn if the wee man does not have some smooth moves.  

  25. Mitt Romney outspends Rick Santorum 4-1 to win Wisconsin | Right Wing News
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  26. Adjoran
    April 4th, 2012 @ 2:58 am

     Tread carefully – they don’t like math questions in these here parts.

  27. Adjoran
    April 4th, 2012 @ 2:59 am

     Don’t stop believing.

  28. Adjoran
    April 4th, 2012 @ 3:08 am

     The fact is that if you leave Uncle Ron aside, the other Final Four competitors have very small and technical differences in their policies and positions.  That is why it became personal, trying to pick apart each other’s records, not the positions on which they were running.

    The good news is that the damage will be minimal.  Virtually all of the attacking has been to show the opponents aren’t conservative enough, so the use Obama gets is minimal.  A few really dumb remarks against Romney against his capitalism, bordering on class warfare, but not from anyone with any great appeal to the swing voters themselves.

    It’s been a tough and vigorous campaign, no holds barred on all sides.  But for all the arguing about which road is best, we all really want the same goal.

  29. Mitt Romney outspent Rick Santorum 4-1 in Wisconsin « Wintery Knight
    April 4th, 2012 @ 4:00 am

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  30. Larimerica
    April 4th, 2012 @ 6:30 am

    Last night, Santorum voted to continue his War on Math all the way to the inauguration.

  31. bestsocialprogram
    April 4th, 2012 @ 7:23 am

    That’s what they said about McCain. Throwing bits and scraps to us conservatives to shut us up while the establishment picks a moderate candidate doesn’t work.

    So much for capitalizing on the Tea Party movement.

  32. bestsocialprogram
    April 4th, 2012 @ 7:26 am

    You know, Stacy, the New Yorker also had a piece that trashed Ryan’s budget and called it radical and such. So I’m not trusting their math, nor their biased comments that say this race is “pretty much over.”

  33. Larimerica
    April 4th, 2012 @ 7:56 am

    Actually, the networks projected Romney to win when 0% of the precincts had reported. That’s because their projections are not based on official vote counts, but on surveys of people who have cast their votes. These surveys, also know as exit polls, are usually done well enough to be accurate predictors of the official results. Pull your palm off your face, mlenzy. Social science statistical methods are not the enemy.

  34. Bob Belvedere
    April 4th, 2012 @ 8:03 am

    Perhaps one battle is lost, but the war continues.  Perhaps this was our Kasserine Pass.

  35. Zilla of the Resistance
    April 4th, 2012 @ 8:11 am

    Stacy, in 20 days, we will be voting in our primary here in New York State. While NYC is overwhelmingly leftist, this is a big state and we have lots of very conservative areas on Long Island and upstate! The Republican candidates generally do not bother with us but that is  a huge mistake!  Rick should come to the Hudson Valley and meet the voters here, I will come out to help if he does! You should come here to cover it, too and I will buy you beers and/or invite you over for some backyard barbeque. You will like my husband, he is really cool and has all kinds of fun stuff you can drive really fast through the woods here on such as dirt bikes, quads and atvs (or snowmobiles in winter). It is nice being married to a man who knows how to build and fix things that go VROOOM!
    And you can see me in my new hat, which happens to be a fedora. 😉

  36. Larimerica
    April 4th, 2012 @ 8:16 am

    It’s sad to see journalists, from CNN down to Stacy, treat the staggered announcement of precinct vote counts as a dynamic event, in which candidates are fictitiously described as “pulling ahead” or “falling behind” despite the fact that voting has ceased. The outcome doesn’t change after the polls have closed. It’s like watching a jigsaw puzzle being filled in and pretending that the picture keeps changing until — surprise! — it turns into the image on the cover of the box.

  37. Bob Belvedere
    April 4th, 2012 @ 8:17 am

    Sorry, Adj, but Mitt ain’t no conservative, never has been.

    I live in New England and have been watching him since the early 1990’s when he began maneuvering in GOP politics up here.

    He took whatever views his consultants told him would help him get elected.  It didn’t work against Teddy Kennedy, but it did against an abysmal Democrat, Shannon O’Brien, who came from the Martha Coakley school of imbecility and cluelessness.

    He tried  to govern Massachusetts like John Volpe, Frank Sargent, Paul Cellucci, and Bill Weld – Rockefeller Republicans all.  He quickly became unpopular because he lacked Mr. Weld’s charisma, Celluc’s integrity, and he was a wimp – the Legislature laughed at him and the Supreme Judicial Court showed him no respect.  In fact, the House was run by a Speaker, Tom ‘The Felon’ Finneran who was an actual old time Scoop Jackson Democrats and, therefore, was more conservative.

    He was a grand disappointment to many in Massachusetts and he would have had a very tough time getting re-elected.

  38. Larimerica
    April 4th, 2012 @ 8:19 am

    …as demonstrated by President McCain and Vice President Palin.

  39. Bob Belvedere
    April 4th, 2012 @ 8:19 am

    Stacy wrote: Chris, you’re wrong: Santorum is not “arguably . . . one of the hardest working candidates,” he is the hardest working candidate, period.

    Rick Santorum is the James Brown of politics.

  40. Larimerica
    April 4th, 2012 @ 8:46 am

    If you play the “not” game, you can also say NotSantorum and NotGingrich and NotPaul are sweeping every state. But to take such a meaningless view of a four-man race, you have to be staring at the wall of your colon. Here’s the “inevitable” fact: Santorum would have to win almost all the remaining states to get enough delegates…and there aren’t enough Republican voters who like him for that to happen.

    Last night, Santorum bitterly referred to the majority of Republican voters who don’t like him as an “aristocracy.” He actually complained that the majority of Republicans are using their votes to force Romney on the Republican Party against the Party’s wishes. What a moron. But then, this is the guy who claimed Puerto Ricans are violating federal law by speaking Spanish, and that the public universities in California don’t offer courses in American history.

  41. Larimerica
    April 4th, 2012 @ 8:52 am

    And the Santorumites’ War on Math continues.

  42. Forget it, Rick. It’s Maryland. « Andrew J. Patrick
    April 4th, 2012 @ 9:31 am

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  43. ThePaganTemple
    April 4th, 2012 @ 9:38 am

     I’m glad you think all that’s amusing, I think its sickening. It’s like a two or three year Boy Scout that earned a few medals so now he thinks he’s qualified to join the Army Rangers.

  44. ThePaganTemple
    April 4th, 2012 @ 9:45 am

    You’re misreading the intentions of Santorum and his most devoted followers. They know there’s no way in hell he’s going to win the delegate math. What they’re hoping for is that Santorum can deny Romney the delegates he needs to clinch the nomination, and then force a floor fight at a brokered convention, where somehow, through some miracle, God will speak from on high to the hearts of just enough delegates to convince them that Rick is the right guy to nominate.

    I guess one of those things God’s going to whisper to a good many of those Protestant Christian delegates is “don’t worry about whether or not Santorum thinks you are sincere Christians, vote for him and stop using those damn rubbers.”

    I guess God was napping all those times he could have been speaking to the voters in the voting booths.

  45. richard mcenroe
    April 4th, 2012 @ 10:32 am

     Remind me again how many stayed home for McCain.

  46. richard mcenroe
    April 4th, 2012 @ 10:33 am

     Mitt and Ann barely know any Republicans.  Where is he going to find a conservative?

  47. richard mcenroe
    April 4th, 2012 @ 10:34 am

     People have no idea how badly this negative ad crap is going to bite us in the ass in the General Election.  Mitt is making himself the Meg Whitman of America, one state at a time.

  48. richard mcenroe
    April 4th, 2012 @ 10:37 am

     There was not one thing… not one… that kept Mitt Romney from using every penny of that  money from attacking Obama from the word go. Nothing.  If he thought he could present himself as an accomplished alternative to Barack Obama, he would have, and he should have. He chose not to.   He chose to attack his opponents because Mitt Romney’s own record is Obama’s, on the smaller scale governing just one state permitted.

  49. Hey, Big Spender | Daily Pundit
    April 4th, 2012 @ 10:42 am

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  50. richard mcenroe
    April 4th, 2012 @ 11:12 am

     Touting your accomplishments  — if you have any you want to brag about — would have accomplished both ends for Mitt at once.  Why didn’t he do that?

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