Romney Wins Alaska Republican Caucus

Yesterday, while many checked out for the night, in the Alaska Time Zone, the State of Alaska reported its Super Tuesday Republican caucus results. With 100% of the caucus completed, Mitt Romney won Alaska with on-third of the votes cast in the caucuses.

Alaska (27 Delegates): Mitt Romney 33%; Rick Santorum 29%; Ron Paul 24%; Gingrich 14%. Of the 27 delegates, 3 delegates have not been assigned. Assigned delegates were Romney 8 delegates; Santorum 7 delegates; Paul 6 delegate; and Gingrich 3 delegates.

While the people's vote is always important, sometimes a specific person's vote gets the news.  On Fox News, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was asked who she voted for and responded that she had voted for Newt Gingrich. She added "My preference tonight was for the cheerful one." In a former debate, Gingrich, when asked to pick one word to describe himself, said "cheerful." In January, Gov. Palin's husband, Todd Palin, an independent, endorsed Gingrich. It looks like 85.8% of the Republicans of Alaska expressed a different opinion than the Palin family.

With all the March 6th Super Tuesday primaries over, many pundits are noting the fact that the spoiler preventing Rick Santorum from overtaking Mitt Romney appears to be Newt Gingrich.  Gingrich has won 2 states, his home state of Georgia and neighboring South Carolina out of all the contested races to date.  So did Mitt Romney in winning Massachusetts with 72%.  In 2008, Mike Huckabee won his home state of Arkansas after dropping out as a candidate.  But based on states voted States this year, Huckabee had also won Iowa, Tennessee, and Georgia. 

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