Florida Primary First Republican-Only ‘Winner-Take-All’ Contest
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Mitt Romney is favored to defeat Newt Gingrich in today’s presidential primary in Florida, home to the largest and most diverse Republican electorate and the biggest bloc of convention delegates to date.
Surveys of Florida Republicans show that Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, leads Gingrich, a former U.S. House speaker, by more than 10 percentage points in a contest that will award all of its delegates to the statewide winner. Romney would get a boost in a state he lost four years ago to Arizona Senator John McCain, who won the Republican nomination.