March Recap

As March winds down, the race for the republican canidacy has done anything but. While Mitt Romney still holds the lead, Mr. Santorum is certainly making it interesting. The month's election circuit kicked off on March 3 with Washington State. Romney won the caucus by a decent margin, beating Santorum by a margin of 14%, 38% to 24%.

Next came the big day, the super day. Super Tuesday held primaries in Virginia, Vermont, Georgia, Ohio, North Dakota, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Idaho, and Alaska. With this day, came a Romney victory, although it was not as decisive as he would have liked. That day, Romney walked away with victories in Alaska, Idaho, Wyoming, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, and a decisive victory in his home state of Massachusetts. Santorum won North Dakota, Tennessee, and Oklahoma, while Gingrich stole Georgia.

March 10 brought us some U.S. territories and Kansas. Romney was victorius in the Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. Santorum took the real state, Kansas.

The next week brought more of the same. Santorum continued his streak in the south, winning Mississippi and Alabama, and Romney took more islands in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and American Samoa.

The Month wrapped up with a Romney win in Illinois and another Santorum win in the south, Louisiana.

With the month coming to a close, the race is far from over. Santorum is slowly gaining on Romney in the delegate count. Most recently, Romney was up around 550 delegates while Santorum is floating around 270. In the race so far, though it seems close based on the number of states each candidate is winning, Romney is still polling nationwide at 37.1% while Santorum is almost 10% behind at 28.9%.

April kicks off with the D.C. primary on April 3. Also on this day is Wisconsin and Maryland. Romney should win the delegates in all three of these primaries without a problem. Don’t count Rick Santorum out though, his own state of Pennsylvania comes up on the only other primary date in April, the 24th.