2012 Arizona Republican presidential primary

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2012 Arizona Republican presidential primary
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29 delegates to the
2012 Republican National Convention
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Delegate count290
Popular vote239,167138,031
Percentage46.87%27.05%
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Delegate count00
Popular vote81,74843,952
Percentage16.02%8.61%
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The 2012 Arizona Republican presidential primary was a closed primary that took place on February 28, 2012. [1] More than 1,130,000 registered Republican voters participated in the event, the purpose of which was to select delegates from the state to attend the Republican National Convention on behalf of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. The Republican National Committee removed half of Arizona's delegate allocation because the state committee moved its Republican primary before March 6. Arizona therefore held a ballot to select 29 proportionally-allocated delegates. This election occurred the same day as the Michigan Republican primary. The Arizona primary was set as a winner-take-all contest, another violation of RNC delegate allocation rules, which require proportional allocation for all primaries held before April 1. Endorsements from 2008 primary rival and U.S. Senator John McCain [2] and Governor Jan Brewer [3] helped add to the prospects of a victory for Romney in Arizona.

Contents

Campaign

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Texas Congressman Ron Paul, former Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum were contesting and campaigning in the Arizona primary.

Televised debates in Arizona were held on February 18 and 19, 2012, on Public-access television [4] and February 22, 2012, on CNN. Only the major Republican candidates, except for Roemer[ citation needed ], were invited to the third, and none of them attended the first two.

Twenty-three candidates appeared on the presidential primary ballot, [5] 11 of whom are residents of the state. [6]

Project White House

The small alternative newspaper Tucson Weekly , for the second election in a row, has sponsored an event called "Project White House" [7] in which it gets as many ordinary citizens on the ballot as it possibly can. Afterward, a series of "reality show style" competitions occurred, including candidate meet-and-greets, and two televised debates which were sponsored by the Tucson Weekly, a local public-access television show called Illegal Knowledge, and local public television stations. [8]

The two debates took place on February 18 and February 19, 2012, both were commercial-free, one hour long each, and both aired on Access Tucson while they were streamed live on the internet. [9] [10] [11] [12] Both debates were produced in conjunction with Project White House and Jim Nintzel of the Tucson Weekly.

The first debate, held on the 18th at 8 pm MST, produced by Illegal Knowledge [9] and hosted by Dave Maass of San Diego CityBeat , [13] had nine participants, composed of eight lesser known Republican candidates (Donald Benjamin, Simon Bollander, Cesar Cisneros, Kip Dean, Sarah Gonzales, Al "Dick" Perry, Charles Skelley and Jim Terr) and one Green Party candidate (Michael Oatman). [10] A press release regarding this first debate was distributed which invited all candidates listed on either Republican or Green Party ballots in Arizona to the first debate, [14] although none of the major Republican or Green Party candidates appeared.

The second debate, held on the 19th at 7pm MST, produced by Access Tucson [11] and hosted by both Dave Maass of San Diego CityBeat and Amanda Hurley of the University of Arizona School of Journalism, [13] was restricted only to Republican candidates and featured seven of the eight lesser known Republican candidates from the previous night (less Cesar Cisneros). [12]

There was a third Arizona debate which took place in Mesa, AZ on February 22, 2012, but was not associated with Project White House and had only invited the four major Republican candidates to participate. [15] [16]

Two lesser known candidates appearing in the first debates, Sarah Gonzales (who placed sixth) and Michael Oatman (who placed tied for third), placed ahead of their better known Republican and Green Party counterparts (Buddy Roemer and Gerard Davis respectively) in the Arizona Presidential Preference Election Results from February 28, 2012. [17]

Polling

Results

The 2012 Arizona Republican state convention, which determined delegates who would be sent to the RNC. Arizona Republican state convention 2012.jpg
The 2012 Arizona Republican state convention, which determined delegates who would be sent to the RNC.

Arizona was allocated 29 delegates because it moved its primary to February 28. [18]

Voter turnout = 45.3% [19]

Arizona Republican primary, 2012 [20]
CandidateVotesPercentageDelegates [21]
Mitt Romney 239,16746.87%26
Rick Santorum 138,03127.05%0
Newt Gingrich 81,74816.02%0
Ron Paul 43,9528.61%3
Rick Perry (withdrawn)2,0230.40%0
Sarah Gonzales1,5440.30%0
Buddy Roemer (withdrawn)6920.14%0
Paul Sims5300.10%0
Cesar Cisneros4180.08%0
Mark Callahan 3580.07%0
Al "Dick" Perry3100.06%0
Donald Benjamin2230.04%0
Michael Levinson2170.04%0
Kip Dean1980.04%0
Ronald Zack1560.03%0
Christopher Hill1390.03%0
Frank Lynch1100.02%0
Wayne Charles Arnett960.02%0
Raymond Scott Perkins900.02%0
Matt Welch860.02%0
Jim Terr590.01%0
Charles Skelley570.01%0
Simon Bollander540.01%0
Total:510,258100.00%29

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