Well looking at the map, outside of the big four metro areas (Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo) Santorum cleaned up. That's a lot of small-town rural Americana out there.
Thing is, I just crunched some numbers, and if I'm doing the math right, Romney will probably suffer a less-than-impressive night and STILL come out with a lead that is 100 delegates higher than it was going in. The reason? He'll almost certainly keep everyone below the 15% threshold in Massachusetts and thus pick up ALL 41 delegates there. And even though he didn't sweep Virginia, He'll wind up with 43 of 49 (and more importantly, Rick Santorum gets
zilch), and finally the way the Idaho caucuses are structured, it's virtually a winner-take-all contest. Early results are heavily in Romney's favor, so that's another 32.
So right there, from those three states he has 116 delegates and Santorum picks up a goose egg. Santorum wasn't able to shut out the competition in Oklahoma, so he winds up having to share delegates with Romney there, and in TN and OH and GA even with the wins. He whittles away at Romney's lead, but he can't whittle away in giant chunks like Romney got in the three above.
Vermont ends up being a small net bonus for Romney, and Alaska is still voting but it's not a large number of delegates.
Right now, Romney looks poised to win four, Santorum to win four, Gingrich to win one. Even if Santorum takes Alaska and thus wins the lion's share of the night, his wins will be paltry in terms of delegates compared to Romney's wins, because of the vagaries of the different state rules. You can bank on the Virginia primary being taken to the courts by somebody, because that's a major blow to the various anti-Romney forces.
He was going to be stuck with those labels no matter what the votes were. It will be interesting to see the counties around D.C. going 99% for him though, that might be noteworthy.
Nah, they're not that lopsided, but they are roughly 65-35 in favor of Romney over Paul. I'm surprised Paul got 35%, considering he wants to "slit the throat of Federal government" and those counties are more or less utterly tied to the Federal government for their livelihoods.