Romney winner in Nevada

Fox News projects Romney with winner with 43 percent of the vote in the Nevada caucuses. The other candidates were well behind. At the time of this post their web site has not caught up with the news channel. I will update as more comes in.

Fox News now reports:

Mitt Romney won the Nevada Republican caucuses Saturday, scoring dramatic back-to-back victories in the race for the nomination.

Early returns showed him taking 46 percent in the state, followed by Ron Paul and John McCain with 15 percent each, Mike Huckabee with 9 percent, Fred Thompson with 10 percent and Rudy Giuliani with 3 percent.

The former Massachusetts governor was one of the few Republicans with any campaign presence in the state, as his top competitors stayed in South Carolina ahead of its influential first-in-the-South primary the same day. Paul was airing television ads in Nevada, and Romney left South Carolina to make a final push in the state Thursday.

But Romney, who won the Michigan primary Tuesday, has defended his against-the-grain strategy, saying he could stomach a loss South Carolina. He’s cast his campaign as a quest for convention delegates and was looking to reinforce that tally in Nevada, which offers more delegates than South Carolina.

Romney said in Reno Friday, “I love the entire country. I’m not leaving off any part of the country. I’m campaigning in 50 states, not in two or three. … Right now, we’ve had four contests and I’ve got two golds and two silvers. That’s a pretty good medal count if you’re an Olympian.”

Romney also won the Wyoming caucuses. He was headed to Florida later Saturday to campaign ahead of its Jan. 29 primary.

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While he strategy may have suffered a set back in Iowa and New Hampshire He is yet to finish too far back in the pack and now has a couple of pretty good wins. He probably will not win in South Carolina, but he is in a tight groups of top candidates in Florida which will be a more important state. He may not be loved, but he has shown his organizational skills in the early contest.

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