April 3 states (WI, MD, DC) results thread

[cinyc]

Interesting: at this moment Romney is less than 700 votes ahead out of 50 thousand counted. Of course, they have the exit poll - but it doesn't even seem like the most Santorumesque parts of the state have reported.

The margins from Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties will more than offset the Santorumesque parts of the state.  Romney is winning SE Wisconsin by 20.  And since that's where the people are...

[cinyc]

Huntsman is getting 7% in DC - a whopping 154 votes.  Paul leads Gingrich by 2 points for second.  Romney won big with 68%.  

So far, there were about 2,100 votes cast in the DC Republican primary versus over 24,000 in the DC Democratic primary.  More than 10:1.

[cinyc]

Any news on the CD's in WI?  

Mittens has swept them in MD, actually increasing his percentage in his worst one.

Per the AP, Romney leads in WI-01, WI-04, WI-05 and WI-06.  Santorum leads in the other four CDs, WI-02 just barely.

[cinyc]

Actually, there is a sudden Romney dump in Dane, which puts it fairly solidly into Romney column. Looks like CD 2 might go R, in the end.

Romney is up by 764 votes in the AP's WI-02 tally.

[cinyc]

Final DC:

Romney 3,122 (70.2%)
Paul 534 (12.0%)
Gingrich 479 (10.8%)
Huntsman 312 (7.0%)
   
Over 52,000 votes were cast in the uncontested Democratic primary, versus less than 4,500 in the DC Republican primary.

[cinyc]

Does anywhere care to explain this lacunae? I mean, I understand how Dane swung its way, but Eau Claire swinging the other way, with Huckabee voters going Mittens in large numbers in Huck's premier county?  Why?

I'd hold off on any analysis until more than 43% of the county is in.  It could just be that the more Romney/McCain-friendly areas of the county came in first.  

Gingrich did his best in the state in the counties just south of Eau Claire, FWIW.

[cinyc]

So, Romney 5 CD's, Santorum 3 CD's?

Yes.   AP has Romney winning WI-02 by about 1,400 votes with 100% reporting.   WI-01, WI-04, WI-05 and WI-06 went to Mitt by larger margins.

Maryland is all in, except for absentees and provisionals.  Romney was kept under 50%, Santorum under 30%.  From the AP:

Romney 116,922 (49.1%)
Santorum 68,847 (28.9%)
Gingrich 25,966 (10.9%)
Paul 22,645 (9.5%)
Huntsman 1,393 (0.6%)
Perry 1,037 (0.4%)

MD SoS is showing slightly different numbers with a higher tally and one precinct outstanding.  Romney might have ended up with a rounded 49.2% instead of 49.1% before absentees.