It’s Still a Two-Man Race Between Paul and Romney BedfordPatch ^ | January 23, 2012 at 9:03 am | Bill Walker Posted on Monday, January 23, 2012 11:31:19 AM by mvpel
Newt Gingrich can’t be President. Not because of his $1.6 million Freddie Mac scandal, or his fake charity scandal, or his $300,000 ethics fine while Speaker, the arms dealer scandal, or any of his other personal and financial scandals. Newt Gingrich (or Rick Santorum) can’t be President because to be nominated, you need delegates. ...
Newt has lots of media coverage, but in the physical world where campaigns actually occur he can’t get 1141 delegates. ...
No candidates besides Paul and Romney filed in all the states:
VA - no Gingrich or Santorum - 49 delegates
MO - no Gingrich - 52 delegates, non-binding primary
D.C. - no Santorum - 19 delegates
So that's 101 lost for Gingrich, and 68 lost for Santorum.
Then, even when your campaign stops its Aegean cruise long enough to file, you still have to get people to sign up as delegates. Santorum and Gingrich only have partial slates of delegates in IL, OH, and TN, which together represent 193 delegates. They are missing different numbers of delegates, but these losses push Gingrich down to levels where he would have to have landslides in all the remaining states.
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Poster Comment:
Link to original article above. Link to Freeptardville below
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2836600/posts
This is going to be a brokered convention, Newt will have to cut a deal with somebody.