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Originally Posted by floridasandy
it certainly was a strange primary in south carolina, no matter how you look at it-just like the iowa caucus.
the state was penalized half of their delegates-so there are only 25 awarded, and 23 are pledged to newt and 2 to romney-even though the actual official voting results were
Gingrich, Newton Leroy "Newt" 244,113 40.43%
Romney, Willard "Mitt" 168,152 27.85%
(green paper source)how that winds up being 23 to 2 in delegate count i don't know.
of course, there were thousands of votes cast for people no longer in the race so maybe it does make some kind of sense.
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They weren't awarded proportionally in South Carolina. It was 'winner take all' technically, but if you won a district you did get their delegates. That is how Romney got 2.
You are right South Carolina was very odd and Iowa was just flat out crooked.