Voters in DuPage County and Illinois picked Mitt Romney as their desired candidate for president on this November's ballot.
At about the half-way point of primary season, Romney has 568 delegates, well ahead second-place Rick Santorum's 273 delegates. But there's still a ways to go before any candidate secures the 1,144 delegates necessary for the Republican nomination.
Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich pledged this week to stay in the race despite mounting pressure to withdraw.
Each week Darien Patch is polling voters on their presidential picks. Once again we ask, if the election were today, who would get your vote?
Brad Drake
12:32 pm on Thursday, March 29, 2012
Ron Paul has my vote. He seems to be the only candidate that truly has America's best interests in mind. People call him a "whackjob" and the media does it's best to block him out, though, both conservatives and liberals. The truth is that he sugarcoats nothing, understands our national problems and the causes of them, and has a solid plan to right the ship. He doesn't stand a chance, though, people will vote for whomever their party tells them to vote for. Nothing will change no matter who is in the White House this time next year and hard working Americans will just continue to suffer.
I heard it best by a comedian not too long ago. Everyone knows a dictatorship is bad and wrong, because there's only one choice. Well we live in a country where we only have two choices and THAT is bad and wrong.