The National Post
Math is in Mitt Romney’s favour, even if enthusiasm isn’t
By Sheldon Alberts
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s losses in the GOP’s Deep South civil war underscored the Republican presidential front-runner’s persistent weakness with the party’s conservative base — a recurring theme that no amount of message massaging by his campaign has yet changed.
But after winning the battle of the Pacific, the former Massachusetts governor on Wednesday could at least lay claim to this success: His delegate lead over Rick Santorum is still growing.
Mr. Romney’s victories early Wednesday in Hawaii and in American Samoa — where about 70 Pacific islanders held presidential caucuses over drinks at a bar — pushed his delegate total to 495 of the 1,144 he needs to clinch the Republican nomination.
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