New Hampshire Primary 2012 Results: Strong Victory for Romney
New Hampshire Primary 2012 Results: Strong Victory for Romney: Politically, the bloody battle for the Republican Party in the person of President Barack Obama in November’s presidential election is a bit more clearly today.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has proven himself as a leader was in the lead. This is Romney’s to lose, but it seems that this is the year when we should expect that the leading candidate would have a hard time to hold on to the lead. Romney still has at least one state before it can be declared clear of the Republican choice to face Obama.
There is a looming fight over former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, the South Carolina primary on Saturday, January 21. Only about 2% of the delegates selected in Iowa and New Hampshire, it looks like three people race. Expect to see Texas Representative Ron Paul and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the United States to take the fight this past January and past South Carolina.
It feels like it will end, because Romney destroyed the competition in New Hampshire. Romney finished with about 39% of the vote in Texas Representative Ron Paul in second with 23%. Only the former Governor of Utah Jon Huntsman was a respectable showing with 17%. New Hampshire will go down in history as a strong victory Romney.
This primary season is different from past primaries. The Republicans changed the rules of most of the early primary, so they left the “winner takes all” system of proportional voting in the early primaries. This means more than race. Romney nomination would be blocked if all the primaries, let the winner take all delegates from each state and they used the old system.
Iowa ended up being a tie, three, even thought the media declared it a big win for Romney. Romney was declared the winner with 24.6% of the vote and 30,015 votes. Former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania was second with 24.5% of the vote and 30,007 votes. Relatively close to the third representative Ron Paul of Texas with 21.4% of the votes and 26, 219 votes. The irony is that Romney, Santorum and Paul all get a piece of 6 delegates to represent them at the Republican National Convention this summer.
New Hampshire is now billed as a great victory for Romney, but only 12 delegates were selected. If you add the 12 New Hampshire and Iowa to 28 delegates, you will receive a total of 40 delegates selected so far for the convention. There are 2286 delegates attending the convention, yet the media would lead you to believe that this race is coming to an end, and only 2% of all the delegates chosen.
South Carolina should be the last stand for many candidates. John Hunter was a respectable showing in New Hampshire, but he seems like he is borrowed time in this campaign. His New Hampshire show can be high-water mark for his campaign. He has to repeat his performance respectable New Hampshire to take the fight past South Carolina
Texas Governor Rick Perry has pushed all his chips into a pile in South Carolina. He had some awful performance in Iowa and New Hampshire. Clearly, South Carolina is the last stand for Rick Perry, South Carolina. Former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania was a few votes in a huge victory for Iowa, but he could not pass its momentum from Iowa to New Hampshire a strong showing.
The three remaining candidates are taking the fight in South Carolina and beyond Romney, Paul, and Gingrich. Ron Paul supporters, which allowed him after the 3rd place in Iowa and second place finish in New Hampshire. He believes that, as other candidates drop out of the race, he may become an alternative to Mitt Romney. 
While Newt Gingrich told South Carolina to win it, I expected that he will hang in the race to be the last man standing against Romney. In addition, it tends to be a conservative alternative to Romney, a moderate.
Many candidates career will be created or broken in the first primaries in the south. South Carolina may be the last stand for a few candidates, but Romney is clearly an effort to bring down his opposition to end it.
After Iowa and New Hampshire, many Republicans feel that the end is near, but this year seems to have abandoned the rules and playbook to the side. Expect the next week and a half will be a very interesting fight to see if the Republicans agree on Romney or if they wish to anoint another candidate to break the Republican field.
