2012年5月8日星期二

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Romney won at least 60 delegates Tuesday, with 35 still undecided. Romney has a commanding lead in the race for delegates with designerburberrystore 916. He is 228 delegates shy of the 1,144 he needs to clinch the nomination — a gap he could close by the end of the month. The only other Republican still in the race, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, has 99 delegates. Paul won at least five delegates Tuesday, all in North Carolina Romney won all 27 delegates at stake in Indiana and at least 33 of the 52 delegates up for grabs in North Carolina. Voters also went to the polls in West Virginia, with 28 delegates at stake, but delegate results were not expected on election night. West Virginia elects individual delegates directly on the ballot. Each delegate is listed on the ballot — three in each of the three congressional districts and 19 statewide — along with the presidential candidate they support. With 112 candidates running for the 19 statewide spots, results were expected to be late. Romney swept three Republican primaries, moving ever closer to sealing his burberry men shoes nomination in an otherwise sharply polarized environment. "We are experiencing deep political divisions in our society right now. These divisions have stalemated progress in critical areas," Lugar, a Capitol Hill diplomat and a deal-maker, said as he conceded to the tea party-backed GOP opponent who ended his nearly four-decade career in the Senate. Lugar's foe, state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, had painted the Republican senator as too moderate for the conservative state. North Carolinians voted to amend their state constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman, effectively outlawing gay unions through a ballot measure pursued by the right. Also Tuesday, Democrats overwhelmingly picked Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett to challenge Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in a June recall election. The primary outcome set up a re-match; Barrett lost to Walker in 2010. The highly charged and hard-fought contests overshadowed Romney's continued progress toward the GOP presidential nomination. He won the Republican presidential primaries in Indiana, North Carolina and West Virginia on Tuesday, drawing close to the 1,144 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination. He won at least 59 delegates, with 37 still undecided. He had 915 delegates, 229 shy of what he needs to become the formal nominee. Even Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, was essentially ignoring the primaries. He spent the day campaigning in Michigan, where he castigated Obama as an "old-school liberal" whose policies would take the country backward. And Romney new arrival shawl burberry 2012 scarf for sale yellow beige didn't weigh in on the primary outcomes or Lugar's defeat.

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