Rick Santorum
easily won the Louisiana Republican primary, as expected, Saturday. With
99 percent of the precincts reporting, Santorum had 49.1 percent of the
vote, compared to Mitt Romney’s 26.6 percent, according to data from
the Associated Press.
Newt Gingrich came in third with 15.9 percent of the vote while Ron
Paul got 6.1 percent. Although the victory clearly allows Santorum to
continue claiming that he’s the conservative alternative to Romney, it
does little to alter the delegate math.
With only 20 delegates up for grabs in Louisiana’s contest, Santorum
still has less than half of Romney’s 563 delegates, according to the
AP’s count. Still, the Louisiana race clearly marks yet another setback
for Romney, who has been defeated in in six Southern states this month,
points out the Washington Post.
