"Rick Santorum easily won the Louisiana primary Saturday — but it may be too late to make much of a difference.
With 100 percent of precincts reporting in Louisiana, Santorum had 49 percent, Romney 26.7 percent, Gingrich 15.9 percent and Paul 6 percent, according to the Associated Press. CNN, Fox News, NBC and CBS projected Santorum the winner as soon as polls closed, based on an overwhelming lead in exit polls.
The Louisiana primary uses a proportional system for delegates, with a minimum threshold of 25 percent for candidates. Romney will therefore still gain some delegates, bringing him closer to the magic number 1,144 needed for nomination, and in either case will maintain his wide delegate lead over Santorum.
But Saturday’s contest is still an embarrassment of sorts for Romney, coming on the heels of the “Etch-A-Sketch” gaffe by his top adviser Eric Fehrnstrom, who in a morning TV interview on CNN earlier in the week described how the campaign could remake its platform in order to appeal to moderate voters in the general election.
Also, the results cast further doubt on any viability for Newt Gingrich’s campaign — even as a regional Southern candidate — and his quest to become an anti-Romney candidate at a brokered convention."
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