
Ex-Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romny won another victory over other US presidential candidates from the Republican Party based on voting at the voters' meetings in Vaiming, RIA Novosti reports.
According to the media participating in the vote count, Romny received the support of 39% of voters. Voting in various state districts took place throughout February and ended on Wednesday.
In second place is the former Senator Rick Santorum with 33%. The third and fourth places went to the Congressman Ron Paul (20%) and the ex-spiker of the House of Representatives of Newt Gingrich (8%).
In total, more than two thousand people took part in the vote, which is not so few for the state with the smallest population, which are a little more than 500 thousand people.
On the eve of Romny won the preliminary elections (primaries) in Arizona and Michigan . The results of the primaries in these states were not a surprise and confirm that Romny returned the leadership in the intra -party race after a series of defeats in the primaries in the states of Missouri, Minnesot and Colorado.
Initially, the election campaign began in January, six famous Republican candidates and one candidate of democrats (the current president of Barack Obama) entered the election campaign. To date, only four candidates from the Republican Party continue the campaign: a moderate politician Romni, a conservative and populist Gingrich, a congressman with a Libertarian program Paul and Conservative Santorum. A single candidate from the party will be determined at the end of the primaries season, at the party congress in September.
In comparison with the candidate from the Democrats, acting President Barack Obama, the Romny rating does not yet give reason to say that he will be able to win in the presidential election on November 6. Most recent surveys show that up to 43% of voters would vote for Romny, while Obama would again like to see 52% of Americans as president.
As the Moscow Komsomolets notes with reference to The New York Times, Romny’s shaky position is that he as an orator does not get “excitability”, “real passion”, “electricity”, “magic”. He is “technocratic”, “anemic” and although he has a “presidential appearance and hairstyle”, but does not have the charisma of the leader, does not know how to cause enthusiasm.
As even one of the main advisers Romni Eric Fertrams admits, his boss is a "cold cucumber."
For Obama Santorum, a less dangerous opponent in the national elections due to his ultra -conservativeness. In the circles of the White House on the eve of the primaries on February 28, they said that the victory of Santorum over Romny in Michigan would be for Obama "Christmas". But the "Christmas" did not work at the end of February.
The next cycle of republican primaries is on Tuesday, March 6. By tradition, it is called a “supercurrent”, since the primaries pass at once in ten states, where 437 delegate votes are played. On the primaries of 2008, Senator McCain, a decisive defeat for his rivals, including Romny, and discovered his way to the nomination. Whether Romny is able to repeat this gambit, we will find out exactly in a week.