Weekend Delegate Wrap Up

Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican nominee, but he's still going to have to work at it. I noted on Saturday that about half of the Colorado district delegates punted and are going to the convention as "unpledged." He fared better at the state convention where he took 8 delegates with 4 remaining "unpledged", plus the three part leader delegates. This gives Colorado a final score of 13 delegates for Mr. Romney, 6 for Mr. Santorum, and 17 committed to no one.

Wyoming went far more as planned. Mr. Romney took all 14 of the state convention delegates to give him 22 out of 29 available delegates. The remaining 7 are 2 for Mr. Santorum, 1 for Uncle Ron, and 4 as "unpledged", although 1 of those unpledged party leaders has committed to voting for Mr. Romney.

A third contest, mostly under the radar, were three district conventions in Minnesota (for the 3rd, 5th, and 6th Congressional Districts). The 7th district had already held theirs on March 31 (resulting in 2 delegates for Mr. Santorum and 1 for Uncle Ron). The remaining 4 districts will select this Saturday (April 21). Uncle Ron swept these three districts giving him 9 more delegates.

So our final totals are now 604 actual delegates for Mr. Romney (646 projected), 220 actual delegates for Mr. Santorum, 135 actual for Newt, and 44 for Uncle Ron.

This Saturday we'll have the rest of Minnesota's district conventions (for 12 delegates) and Missouri's district conventions for 24 delegates (3 per CD).