GOP Selection Process and Mitt Romney's Win In Florida

It's well reported that FL represents a microcosm of the American Electorate, more so, than any other state.

Mitt won the hispanic vote. He split tea party activists and evangelicals. He won where people live. He won the female vote by a large margin. He won the male vote by a small margin. Gingrich won the panhandle and largely tied in the few northern Florida population centers.  

Newt's future wins will come in the Southern States....Key for him may be TX with all it's delegates.  He won't win the biggest delegate state, CA and the 3rd largest delegate state NY. He might have won Virginia, but we know he's not on the ballot. 

The most optimistic thing that could happen for Newt or Santorum, is for no candidate to get the required 1144 delegates. Which would mean the GOP candidate would be chosen by the delegates at the  Convention in August.  Or those delegates could say the heck with all of them and nominate a person that has not been in this race.  

My horse is not in this race, so it doesn't matter to me which one of the current contenders win the nomination.  I will vote for that nominee. 

Just a side note I mentioned yesterday:  I saw two different reports this morning on two different networks where pundits were saying Newt, if he's not the GOP nominee, could mount a 3rd party run with maybe him and Trump.  We know that would be a disaster. 

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