As he struggles to keep up with frontrunner Mitt Romney and parries calls for him to drop out of the Republican presidential race, Rick Santorum has said in recent weeks that he has actually won more delegates than some media counts show. Those counts, Santorum says, are not taking into account Republican party rules, as well as the state-level meetings that actually determine how many delegates go to each candidate.

“Here’s one of the things that I can tell you I didn’t know,” Santorum told a small group of reporters at a breakfast in Washington Monday.  “Every single state is different.  Every state. Every single state is different.  It’s different on how you get on the ballot.  It’s different on their structure, how they allocate delegates, whether they are bound, whether they are unbound, when they’re committed, how long they committed, how they’re selected. Our math is actually based on the reality of what’s going on in the states.”