Wait! No Michigan win for Mitt after all. Rick and Mitt tie in Michigan – 15 delegates each
Iowa Part Deux: This keeps happening — Mitt getting election night media credit for wins he doesn’t end up with
UK GUARDIAN: Mitt Romney’s marginal primary victory in the Michigan has turned out to be a dead heat after the final count showed rival Rick Santorum still won half the state’s delegates.
Romney’s result in the state of his birth lost some of its lustre as it emerged he and Rick Santorum each received 15 delegates. The result, despite Romney winning 41% of the primary vote compared with Santorum’s 38%, came about because Michigan divides up delegates on a proportional basis.
The outcome muddies the race ahead of 10 key state contests next Tuesday.
A win in Michigan had been crucial for Romney, whose father was governor of the state. He had aimed to overcome the religious conservative Santorum by sticking to his core and mainstream Republican message of fixing the economy and reducing unemployment in a country still recovering from the worst recession in decades.
News that Santorum’s narrow loss in Michigan would yield him as many delegates as the winner enabled him to label the result a success on Romney’s home turf, putting some wind in his sails ahead of the big contests next week.
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