Mitt Romney won the Florida primaries convincingly Tuesday, adding 50 delegates to his total count. He still needs over 1,000 additional delegates to secure the GOP nomination for president.
The Post mostly used AP stories in its coverage of the primary results, although one of these AP stories was a photo slideshow that provided great behind-the-scenes looks at the primary. The Denver Post also covered the fact that Ron Paul and Rick Santorum had immediately moved out West to focus on the next several primaries in Nevada and Colorado. So the Denver Post's coverage of the primaries would expectedly pick up in the next week as it prepare's for its own state's primary.Romney moved back to focusing on the president during his victory speech, sounding confident once again that the nomination would be his. I was suprised by Rick Santorum's rather upbeat outlook on the results, saying that Gingrich's loss meant that the main competitor's spot to Romney was once again prime for the taking, and that he would be the candidate to do it.

In our elections class last week, we discussed how great news will be different, covering different aspects of events that other news outlets are not reporting. The Denver Post definitely did not do that with the Florida primaries, although this did not come as a suprise to me as the Florida primaries was probably not important enough to the people of Colorado for the paper to send its own reporters out to do in-depth coverage.

Ron Paul is currently one of the four remaining candidates running for GOP presidential nomination and a chance to challenge President Obama this November. While he has had his surges, like many of the candidates, he currently trails Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich in total delegates won, only having more delegates than Rick Santorum.

Paul is a libertarian, meaning he believes in as small a federal government as possible, instead focusing on individual liberties, and in the various debates he often cites the Constitution when explaining his views. While his views obviously differ from Democrats, he will disagree with Republicans on certain issues as well, which is why many consider him a potential third party candidate should he fail to win the nomination.

For example, Paul strongly believes in bringing America's troops from all over the world home, something that many Republicans believe would be a grave threat to national security.

Polls show that Paul is particularly popular with young voters, which is something that helped propel Senator Barack Obama to the White House. This means that Paul is important to the Republican party regardless of if he wins the nomination. Personally, I do not think that Paul will be running against President Obama come November, but I do think he will still be in the political spotlight this year.