Romney wins Puerto Rico, GOP campaign continues

[dipsydoodle]

Source: AP

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Mitt Romney scored an overwhelming win Sunday in Puerto Rico's Republican presidential primary, trouncing chief rival Rick Santorum on the Caribbean island even as the two rivals looked ahead to more competitive contests this week in Illinois and Louisiana.

The victory in the U.S. territory was so convincing that Romney, the GOP front-runner, won all 20 delegates to the national convention at stake because he got more than 50 percent of the vote. That padded his comfortable lead over Santorum in the race to amass 1,144 delegates to clinch the nomination.

Nevertheless, the GOP nomination fight is unlikely to end anytime soon, with Santorum refusing to step aside even though Romney is pulling further ahead in the delegate hunt.

As the day began, Santorum claimed he was in contest for the long haul because Romney is a weak front-runner.

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[Ian David]

1. Exactly how Rick Santorum (apparently) wanted him to. n/t

[zbdent]

2. Santorum screaming "SPEAK ENGLISH!!! SPEAK ENGLISH!!!" probably didn't endear him to

moderately far-right Puerto Ricans ...

[Bette Noir]

3. Got that right.

[DJ13]

4. That will teach Santorum to take his shirt off!

[HockeyMom]

5. Looks like Santorum is striking out big time with Catholics

Puerto Rico is overwhelmingly Catholic. Just saw a headline from 47 minutes ago which said Romney had 83% of the vote.

[Xipe Totec]

6. If Santorum had explained his position in Spanish, maybe Romney would have won 100% of the vote. nt

[LisaL]

7. I guess they didn't like to be called a country that needs to speak English.