Mitt Romney defeats Newt Gingrich in Florida

Mitt Romney won an overwhelming victory in the primaries yesterday Tuesday in Florida, which recovered from the suffered defeat days ago and took a step towards the presidential candidacy for the Republican

Despite the overwhelming against Newt Gingrich result promised to continue the fight.

"Thank you, Florida," wrote Romney in Twitter minutes after the announced the definitive. results

"While we celebrate this victory, must not forget what is actually this choice: defeat Barack Obama", the President of the country, in elections in November.

The results of little more than half of the districts of the State gave to Romney 47% of the vote, against 33 per cent of Gingrich.

Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, former Senator had 13%, while the representative for Texas, Ron Paul, had 7%. Santorum nor Paul launched a campaign determined in State

not shared u000adelegates from the leading candidates, but that assigns all of 50 for the winner, at the Republican National Convention.

That number is by far the largest of any primary state until now.

But the Grand Prize was a valuable political impetus to the struggle to be the rival of President Obama in elections in November.

Romney appeared to take that into the stock market three weeks ago, when she won the primaries in New Hampshire, but Gingrich out it 11 days later, to prevail in South Carolina.

AP now back that factor with the former Governor of Massachusetts, after a recovery in 10 days with a shift to a tactic more aggressive, coupled with an efficient use of their overwhelming advantage financial.

A victory in Florida would mark a new beginning of the war, after a month marked by the inability to predict results.

About half of voters in primaries in Florida said that the u000amost important factor was to support a candidate who could beat Obama in November, according to first exit polls, applied at the request of The Associated Press and several chains of television.

the sum of 50 delegates
with his victory, are aim 50 delegates from Florida at the Republican Convention, to be held next August in Tampa, Florida, to officially appoint the candidate of the party who will face President Barack Obama in the elections of November 6.

Romney already added 81 delegates. So far, Santorum in Iowa, Romney in New Hampshire and South Carolina Gingrich has imposed in the primaries already held. The next elections will take place on Saturday in Nevada, a State where, as in Florida, the Hispanic population has great weight in the ballot box.

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