Lousiana not a game-changer

Published March 25, 2012 4:00am ET



Yes, as Jeffrey Anderson argues in the Weekly Standard’s Blog, Rick Santorum did win an impressive 49%-26% victory (the official numbers are here)   over Mitt Romney in the Louisiana primary but, as my Examiner colleague Timothy Carney has explained, Santorum’s delegate lead will be miniscule since Mitt Romney made the 25% threshold and thus is entitled to a proportionate number of delegates. I am inclined to agree with Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin that Santorum’s impressive victory does not mean that he has any realistic chance of getting the 1,144 delegate majority.

 

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