Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The Fight for Georgia.


Georgia, in many ways, is Newt Gingrich's fort.

But first, lets look at the numbers.

Georgia has 76 delegates up for grabs. 42 are awarded from the state’s 14 congressional districts, three per district (outright majority wins all three district delegates, plurality win gets two, with one for the runner-up), 31 are awarded proportionately based on statewide vote share (20 percent threshold), and 3 are awarded as a bonus to the popular vote winner.

Newt Gingrich represented Georgia’s 6th Congressional district from 1979 to 1999. In 2008, Mike Huckabee won 80 percent of the state’s delegates with only 34 percent of the popular vote. Gingrich has campaigned so much in Georgia despite a steady lead in polls because he wants to run up the score for the sake of delegates. If Gingrich can dominate his old suburban stomping grounds as well as rural districts around the state he might do even better than Huckabee did last time.



Bottomline - 80 percent of Georgia’s delegates would be almost the same size as Ohio’s entire delegation.









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