Romney wins Wyoming, AP reports

AP

UPDATED 8:26 p.m. ET

(CBS News) Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has won Wyoming's county conventions in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, the Associated Press reported Saturday.

The Wyoming win gives him additional delegates in the race to be the first Republican candidate to garner 1144 of 2286 delegates needed to become the party's choice to run against President Obama in November. Just 12 delegates were at stake in Wyoming, and Romney won at least six, his campaign said.

Romney also won a number of delegates in weekend island contests, including the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam.

Rival Rick Santorum took the most delegates in a single race on Saturday when he won 33 delegates in Kansas, though the former Pennsylvania senator remains behind front-runner Romney. And Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul noted that the cumulative total of the small contests amounted to more delegates for Romney than for Santorum.

The Romney campaign said it won a total of 32 delegates Saturday, including some for his second-place finish in Kansas and for winning three island races.

Since January, Romney has amassed more than 400 delegates while Santorum has slightly more than 200 delegates. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has just under a hundred and Texas Rep. Ron Paul has about 40.

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There were 15 county conventions in Wyoming Saturday to pick six convention delegates to add to another half dozen that had been chosen in recent days, the AP reported.

Next up on the calendar are Alabama and Mississippi, where Santorum and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich are fighting to be the conservative alternative to Romney.

While Romney is slowly amassing delegates, he has not knocked out his rivals and could make it all the way to the nomination convention in Tampa Bay without the necessary 1144 delegates.

[sharkboy234]

alabama and Mississippi vote for mitt Romney mitt romney will win alabama and Mississippi!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hutterite]

Not much af an achievement for romney to win a utah adjacent state.

[samXXkiley]

coucou,
the path traveled by the candidates was fascinating, full of surprises, one of the strategies was the strongest, has seduced voters, this strategy emerges insurance, simplicity, tolerance, but also ideas and workable solutions , may the best man win.
"au revoir"

[christos2176]

Romney should claim victory in The Cayman Islands and Switzerland too.

[kbbpll]

Ooh! Wyoming! There's no Mormons there!

[jacknovak]

Santorum lost my vote when he said during the debates that "WE MUST BE FRIENDS WITH PAKISTAN"!! As far as I'm concerned, Pakistan needs to be on its OWN!! Keep the money for Americans!!

[TJphoto]

Let's see, a corporate raider who destroyed lives, a Religious Fruit cake who is a Washington insider, another Washington insider who has serious ethic issues, and a guy who even makes sense but won't last a first term. Nominate any one of them. Listen up GOP. Do the math. What answer did you come up with? DUH!

[suwat007]

Romney will be the nominee soon...
God cheer America. He said he is not worry about the rich which is 5 % of population (so, he does not want the rich to pay more taxes or leave him just pay just 13.9 % tax rate and let secretary pays at 30% tax rate, instead) and not worry about the poor which is 5 % of population, too (So, he does not want to solve that problem much, let this people still be poor or poorer and let the wealth still be richer) God bless America.

[erpicferl]

wyoming home of the mullet

[Jaylah54]

Oh gosh, what a surprise. Wyoming, where 96% of the population gets claimed by the Mormon church!

[krysaliyah]

Get off your high horse. Mitt has been winning the Catholic vote as well, egg! That's gotta be saying something. So quit the Mormon bashing and vote for the candidate that's going to do more for you and your family, including exemplifying high moral values that Mitt rarely talks about but is evident in the life he has led and is leading and who has the brain, expertise & experience to turn our economy around. He's winning the race now and will continue to to do so whether Mormon's vastly populate the state or not. The sooner RS & NG move over and quit using this to try to boost their egos instead of considering our country, the better! They're both as selfish as each other, is what I think!!!