Rick Santorum’s Ohio Delegate Problems Pile Up

[Renew Deal]

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Even if Rick Santorum wins Ohio on Super Tuesday, he won’t be able to claim all of its delegates. In fact, he is at risk of forfeiting nearly one-quarter of them.

In three of the state’s 18 congressional districts, including two that are near Ohio’s border with Pennsylvania, Santorum will lose any delegates he might have won because his campaign failed to meet the state’s eligibility requirements months ago.

Those three districts alone take 9 delegates out of a total of 66 off the table for Santorum.

But it gets worse: Six more Ohio delegates may also be in jeopardy.

Sources say that in four other congressional districts — the fourth, eighth, tenth and sixteenth — Santorum submitted fewer names than required to be eligible for all three delegates up-for-grabs in each district.
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/rick-santorums-ohio-delegate-problems-pile-up/

[DCBob]

1. I have a feeling Ohio is going to turn out better for Romney than many think.

The numbers are turning and momentum is clearly Willards. However, Mittens is good at screwing up things for himself. We shall see how this goes the next few days.

[krawhitham]

5. yeah he is running ads non stop, I have not seen one yet from ricky

That is the way it has gone lately, Ricky leads in a state Willard come in drops a shit load of money on ads and pulls ahead

[Mr.Turnip]

6. Yes but he only has 4 days to do it this time.

And Ricky has done far more damage to himself than Romney's ads have done to him.

[DCBob]

7. Money buys votes.

The good thing is he may be emptying the warchest and wont have as much for the general.

[JackintheGreen]

2. But Romney TOTALLY WON Michigan...n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. The way he 'won' is hilarious - as long as it never goes beyond Republican party elections

From the official party memo dated March 1st - they are still awarding the statewide delegates 'proportionally'; but, since they voted early, of the 14 statewide delegates, only 2 will get to vote at the convention. So Romney, having the largest number of votes, gets the 7 delegates listed first - 2 voting ones, and 5 non-voting ones; while Santorum gets 7 non-voting ones. See? 'Proportional'.

Candidates that receive 15% of the statewide vote total will be allocated delegates proportionally starting with the candidate who wins the majority of the statewide votes.
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Statewide Allocation:
Delegate 1- Voting to Romney
Delegate 2- Voting to Romney
Delegate 3- Non-Voting to Romney
Delegate 4- Non-Voting to Romney
Delegate 5- Non-Voting to Romney
Delegate 6- Non-Voting to Romney
Delegate 7- Non-Voting to Romney
Delegate 8- Non-Voting to Santorum
Delegate 9- Non-Voting to Santorum
Delegate 10- Non-Voting to Santorum
Delegate 11- Non-Voting to Santorum
Delegate 12- Non-Voting to Santorum
Delegate 13- Non-Voting to Santorum
Delegate 14- Non-Voting to Santorum

http://www.thatssaulfolks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/MI-Delegate-Allocation-Memo.pdf

All delegates are equal, but some delegates are more equal than others.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I am always amazed at how ill-prepared these chuckleheads are.

They want to run the country, and they can't even get enough names on board to be eligible for delegates!

How dumb can you get???

Pretty dumb, apparently.

[Gruntled Old Man]

8. To Repubs,

DUMB is a big plus!

[WI_DEM]

9. Mitt's money will win again in Ohio on super Tuesday.