“Rick Santorum is like a football team celebrating a field goal (a
3-point score) when they are losing by seven touchdowns (42 points) with
less than a minute left in the game,” said Romney spokesman Ryan
Williams, who was at Mr Santorum’s sparsely attended victory party in Green
Bay, Wisconsin. That state holds its primary on April 3.
Mr Romney remains far ahead with 568 delegates to Mr Santorum’s 273, according
to an Associated Press tally. Newt Gingrich follows with 135 and Ron Paul
has 50.
Mr Romney is just short of half the 1,144 delegates it will take to clinch the
nomination ahead of the convention this summer in Tampa, Florida, while MR
Santorum is shy of accumulating a quarter of the needed delegates.
His organisational disadvantage will show again in the District of Columbia
primary, also on April 3, where Mr Santorum failed to get on the ballot.