Mitt Romney won:
Alaska
Idaho
Massachusetts
Ohio (narrowly)
Vermont
Virginia
Current number of delegates: 429
Rick Santorum won:
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Current number of delegates: 169
Newt Gingrich won:
Georgia (his home state)
Current number of delegates: 118
Ron Paul won:
not one state...
Current number of delegates: 67
Needless to say, Romney dominated, but not as much as he should have! Romney's campaign spent about $11.9 million just in the month of February. Oh, and by the way, despite his vast personal wealth, he has not dipped into any personal funds to support his campaign WHATSOEVER.
Rick Santorum is really giving Romney a run for his money, and the vote was so close in Ohio that it was scary! For a while, I really thought Santorum was going to take Ohio as well. Fun fact: Romney's campaign spent $1.2 million on ads in Ohio attacking his opponents. As the votes were coming in, everyone was speculating about whether Santorum would be able to pull through. Romney got 37.9% of the vote while Santorum got 37.1% of it. Unbelievably close! It doesn't matter too much, though, because in the general election, Obama will most likely take Ohio anyway.
As I was glued to Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, I got to see all the candidates' Super Tuesday speeches. Pretty entertaining, really. Santorum was related to pretty much every damn person in the room during his speech and Gingrich was supported by lots of very naively optimistic southerners who somehow think he still has a chance at being the GOP candidate. Old ladies decked out in sparkly American flag apparel referred to Gingrich lovingly as a "good ol' boy," while Romney blabbered on about restoring America and repealing "Obamacare."
While Romney technically won the most states on Super Tuesday and has the most delegates, Santorum definitely broke the record for being the most "talked about" candidate on Super Tuesday! A big part of winning elections is about having the conversation and the buzz be all about you, and everybody seems to be talking about Santorum these days. More than 40,000 tweets sent out from 6 am on Tuesday to 6 am on Wednesday mentioned Santorum's name. This was a 2012 election record for the highest spike in Twitter mentions of any GOP candidate! Although this sounds like a good thing, most of the tweets were negative in content. They always say, any press is good press, right? We shall see!
Romney has criticized Obama for being "feckless" and says that "hope is not a foreign policy." What did Obama have to say to that? This is why I love Obama.
With all that said, I am still convinced that the real winner of Super Tuesday and the true front-runner of this election is President Obama. What do you think?
