Big Trouble for Mitt Romney After Santorum’s Sweep

thedailybeast.com — Consider a few numbers from last night’s voting and from these same contests four years ago. Missouri: Four years ago, Mitt Romney got about 172,000 votes out of 589,000 cast. Last night, Romney got around 64,000 out of roughly 233,000 cast. Minnesota: Four years ago, Romney drew 26,000 votes out of 63,000 cast. Last night — just 8,000 out of around 47,000 cast. Colorado: In 2008 Romney won 42,000 votes out of 70,000 cast. Last night he got 23,000 votes out of 65,000 cast. Across the board, then, Romney got fewer votes than he did last time, and each of these three contests drew fewer voters. Romney will still be the nominee, seemingly, but he has some big problems right now.

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