Last night’s vote revealed a lot. Here’s a few interesting tidbits that we noticed:
1) Democrats in Michigan boosted Santorum’s vote tally by 4.8% overall. That is a significant boost, but it was still not enough to counter the strong support for Romney in the state. That means that without the Democrats, Romney would have beat Santorum by almost 7% rather than the 3% result last night. If Democrats hadn’t voted in the Michigan primary, then Romney would have trounced Santorum.
2) The shameful tactic employed by Santorum to appeal to Democrats and Pro-Union workers of the UAW failed. Not only did it fail, but it gave Romney powerful tool to use against Santorum in the coming weeks.
3) By Santorum appealing to Democrats and the Big Unions in Michigan, Santorum revealed his support for Pro-union agendas. Not a good stance in a Republican primary. Also, Santorum seemed to join forces with Michael Moore and Democratic leaders in the state by encouraging Democrats to vote against Mitt Romney. Michael Moore is not the kind of ally a politician wants to have in a Republican election.
4) Romney surpassed the number of voters that supported him in both AZ and MI compared to 2008.
5) Exit polls in AZ show that Romney continued to do well with conservative voters despite the medias continued attempts to claim the contrary. Romney swept nearly every category of voters in AZ. Thank you Arizona!!!
Addendum by Nate: The Romney campaign published one of their “takeaways” nicely in this video: Liberal Democrats for Santorum
Santorum hypocrisy continues full bore. He had the gall last night to tell everybody he would eliminate earmarking “at the federal level” and this after being the #1 earmarker in the Senate with number two a DISTANT number two!
And to your points Ben, he now flips. Best explanation just came out on CNN here:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/28/santorum-flips-on-dems-voting-in-gop-primaries/
In Spanish, they have a phrase to describe people like Santorum. He is a “sin verguenza”
This attempt by Michael Moore, Disano and Democratic leaders to derail the democratic process is dishonest and shows that they lack integrity. Michael Moore supposedly the man who protects the little man from the evils of society is becoming evil himself. The democratic process is important to this country, but apparently it is not important to him. Every democrat that cast a vote for Santorum who only did so to block Romney for fear he will defeat Obama in the fall committed a dishonest and deceitful act. What is worse is Santorum joining democrats with this dirty trick. In Santorum’s Robo Call, he takes the Democratic position by criticizing Romney for NOT supporting the auto bail out. WHAT? Santorum has been criticizing Romney up until now for supporting the bail out. Make up your mind Santorum. This is a deceitful and dishonest act and it is going to cost him a lot of votes.
If you take nearly 5% away from Santorum’s total, wouldn’t that have Mitt winning by about 8%?
And I agree with the post and the above comments!
Well Sue, there was actually about one percent of Dems that voted for Romney so, to be fair I subtracted those from Romney’s total.
Before Santorum’s robocall to dems to help derail Romney, I still had some remnant of favor for him. The robocall was the divorce decree. It was low, cowardly and dishonest. To quote him, I ‘almost vomited’. He cannot be president. I am calling on him to do the right thing and drop out. As far as I’m concerned, he is DONE!
I can only admire Romney – he was surrounded and hedged up on all sides but he forged ahead and prevailed. That is true COURAGE, PERSEVERANCE and LEADERSHIP. What an amazing man! This is the leader we’ve been waiting for and we will settle for nothing less.