Mitt Romney addresses supporters at the Super Tuesday rally in Boston.Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney builds his delegate lead to 415--which still falls way short of the 1144 delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination. On the Super Tuesday race this past Tuesday, March 6, 2012, Mitt Romney won six states and increased his lead over Rick Santorum by a comfortable margin. Even though the race is still far from over, Romney is inching closer to the driver's seat. Rick Santorum, who's second in line to Romney, has a total of 176 delegates followed by Newt Gingrich with 105 delegates and Ron Paul with 47. Newt Gingrich won Georgia Tuesday, which is the only state he's won since the South Carolina primary in January. The states that GOP candidate Mitt Romney won were Alaska, Idaho, Vermont, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Ohio. Romney won a very close race in Ohio. Rick Santorum held a lead over Romney in the state of Ohio. Romney finally pulled off Ohio. The race in Ohio was called after midnight Tuesday. Ohio offered a total of 66 delegates.
Rick Santorum notched important victories in Tennessee, North Dakota, and Oklahoma. Along with those three states Santorum previously won Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, and Colorado. The state which awarded the most delegates was Georgia, in which Gingrich captured 46 of the 76 delegates allotted to Georgia. Romney secured 13 of those votes with Santorum's two. In total 419 delegates were at stake on Super Tuesday. The next contest takes place in Kansas this weekend. Next week there are contests down South in Mississippi and Alabama.
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