Candidates notch wins as Ohio ‘too close to call’
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Supporters of Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney celebrate during a Super Tuesday event at the Westin Copley Place March 6, 2012 in Boston.
By Michael O’Brien, msnbc.com
Updated 10:52 p.m. ET — A hard-fought battle between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in Ohio yielded no quick winner in the state, the prize contest on Super Tuesday that could reshape the battle for the Republican presidential nomination.
Both Romney and Santorum notched victories across the country in the caucuses and primaries they had been expected to win. Newt Gingrich won the primary in Georgia, the state from which he had served as a representative in Congress, but trailed in the remainder of states playing host to nominating contests on Tuesday.
But the trajectory of the Republican campaign hinged in large part on Ohio, where Romney and Santorum re-litigated their battle from just a week earlier in Michigan’s primary, where the former eked out a victory. Santorum had looked to the state to validate his status as the chief conservative opponent to Romney.
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A margin of just a few thousand votes separated Santorum and Romney after most votes had been counted, although a number of major precincts had yet to report their results. NBC Newsdeclared the race in Ohio “too close to call.”
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| MittRomney |
 |
236 |
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| Newt Gingrich | 89 |
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| Rick Santorum | 67 |
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| Ron Paul | 12 |
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| Michele Bachmann | 0 | ||
| Jon Huntsman | 0 | ||
| Rick Perry | 0 | ||
| Newt Gingrich |
 |
47% | 414,153 |
| MittRomney |
 |
26% | 224,078 |
| RickSantorum |
 |
20% | 171,121 |
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| Mitt Romney |
|
75% | 6,000 |
| RonPaul |
 |
12% | 990 |
| RickSantorum |
|
9% | 728 |
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| Mitt Romney |
|
72% | 250,765 |
| RickSantorum |
|
12% | 42,250 |
| RonPaul |
|
10% | 33,339 |
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||
| Rick Santorum |
|
40% | 4,339 |
| RonPaul |
|
27% | 2,928 |
| MittRomney |
|
24% | 2,639 |
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| MittRomney |
|
38% | 420,042 |
| RickSantorum |
|
37% | 414,643 |
| NewtGingrich |
|
15% | 163,079 |
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| Rick Santorum |
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34% | 89,410 |
| MittRomney |
|
28% | 74,391 |
| NewtGingrich |
|
27% | 72,531 |
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| Rick Santorum |
|
37% | 184,673 |
| MittRomney |
|
28% | 138,305 |
| NewtGingrich |
|
24% | 117,502 |
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| Mitt Romney |
|
40% | 17,407 |
| RonPaul |
|
25% | 10,836 |
| RickSantorum |
|
23% | 10,089 |
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| MittRomney |
|
57% | 278 |
| RickSantorum |
|
33% | 161 |
| Uncommitted |
 |
7% | 34 |
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