Along with his delegates....
"Santorum seeking to coax delegates" March 22, 2012|Michael Levenson, Globe Staff
Rick Santorum’s campaign, pushed to the brink after losing badly to Mitt Romney in Illinois, believes it has found a way to cut into Romney’s delegate lead and potentially prevent the former Massachusetts governor from collecting the 1,144 delegates needed to secure the Republican presidential nomination.
Santorum’s unorthodox strategy centers on states where delegates are selected at local party conventions, after the popular vote has been held.
In those states, such as Washington, where Romney won the popular vote at the caucus, Santorum could still lure delegates to his side, because at these local conventions delegates do not have to follow the results of the popular vote.
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"With the final results tallied from the Washington State’s Saturday caucuses, Mitt Romney held onto a strong lead, while Ron Paul narrowly edged out Rick Santorum for second place"
The strategy hinges on the idea that picking up even some of these delegates could keep Romney from reaching the threshold. Santorum would then hope to wrest the nomination from Romney in a floor fight at the Republican National Convention in August....
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