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FORMER MICHIGAN GOVERNOR Mitt Romney has won a significant victory in the race to become the Republican nominee for November’s presidential election.
Romney took 46.7 per cent of votes in the primary in the state of Illinois – one of the larger states in the race, and the home state of the Democratic incumbent Barack Obama.
The win over rival former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, who took 35 per cent of the vote, meant that Romney secured the support of 42 delegates compared to 12 for Santorum, further extending his lead in the race.
Romney’s win had been anticipated, however, with polls in the last few days all projecting a significant victory in the state, which carries a further 15 votes through its ‘superdelegates’ – party officials who can nominate at will and who are not bound to results in their state.
As has been the case with other states, Romney polled more strongly in urbanised areas – Cook County, which includes the large city of Chicago, supported him by a margin of 57-27, while the more rural Effingham county went with Santorum by 61-24.
The overall victory of Romney, however, further underlines the growing differences between Republican voters across the country – with the frontrunner cementing his status as a favourite in northern states, while still struggling to gain support in the south.
Speaking in Chicago after his win, Romney told a captive crowd: “We deserve a president who believes in us – and I believe in the American people.”
He went on to assure his Democratic rival that America had “had enough” of his tenure.
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Texan congressman Ron Paul took third place in the ballot,with his 9.3 per cent defeating the 8.0 per cent former House speaker Newt Gingrich, whose main support has so far been limited to southern states.
Projections now show Romney has having won the support of 540 delegates, compared to the 236 of Rick Santorum, with Gingrich on 160 and Ron Paul on 73.
The winning candidate will need 1,141 delegates to secure the party nomination at the Republican national convention in August.
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Reminds me of the Judge Dredd movie from last year.
What a stupid design for a building.
Similar to gasworks in Dublin..
Similar but completely different…
“Typical of apartheid, the desirable outward-facing apartments were reserved for white people, while the dark inner apartments were rented to black people”
During the apartheid era, this building, located in Berea, was in a white residential area … by apartheid laws, no blacks could rent or stay there. When apartheid fell, all race groups could rent or buy.
It is therefore nonsense to assert that blacks had to rent “dark inner apartments”! The whole Berea, Hillbrow, Johannesburg area has since degenerated into a slum area, forcing most whites to leave for safer residential area’s.
“forcing most whites to leave”
Oh boo hoo, my heart’s breaking!
Insert “Palestinians were forced to leave” and check Petrs reaction…
@Petr Tarasov What a nasty, petty comment that is. Speaks volume about your character.
“Insert “Palestinians were forced to leave” and check Petrs reaction…”
That analogy doesn’t work. The Palestinians are the indigenous people of Palestine. Think before you type.
Simon you berk, I’m not going to shed tears for SA whites who have to move to ‘safer areas’; they ran, or went along with, a grotesquely racist system for generations, they can suck it up now if things ain’t going their way.
@ Petr, the lumping of an entire people together based on their skin colour (white in your case) is exactly what apartheid is. Your comments are trash from a rank, noxious, garbage pit of a mind. I don’t know how you become the way you did but it is your type of diseased thinking that needs to be eradicated from the planet.
What’s the definition of a Palestinian person Petr? What exactly defines you as indigenous of Palestine…..Think now before you type Petr.
Used to go bowling there in 1983/4, it certainly was known as a good area to rent, I stayed nearby in Hillbrow. From my recollection it was hijacked – literally hijacked by Nigerian drug lords, that is when it went into total decline. Not only did whites move out in the late 80′s and early 90′s, but so did the blacks all fearing for their lives. Many suicides did happen, jumping from the windows on the inner part of the building.
By the mid ’90s, Hillbrow’s murder and rape rates were worse than almost any place in the world. Ponte City’s owners hadn’t stepped foot in the building for years, and rubble piled up five stories high in the core. Despite the expansive views from every unit, the building was better known for rats, guns, drugs, and violence. Ponte City’s notoriety even spilled into the literary world – German novelist Norman Ohler centered his book, “Stadt des Goldes,” on Ponte, telling the violent story of a young woman who falls in love with a Nigerian drug lord who lives there.
Hope they get it back to its original state and it’s great that they are investing in Hillbrow, it used to be a great spot.
Anybody else noticed in the so called “financial crash” the poor of the world got poorer and the rich got richer!
Maybe the world needs a good smack of communism
And that would solve what?
The irony of Communism is that those with power end up living an obscenely extravagant lifestyle compared to the average person in that country. You only need to look at the sort of lifestyle individuals like Stalin or Castro lived compared to a farmer or factory worker.
In all fairness, free market economies give a much better average quality of life compared to communist ones.
@Tony Clifton. Not sure making even more people poor is the solution. More poor people tends to be Communisms main outcome. Compare East & West Germany after 50 years of communism and free marketing economics. Both the same people starting from the same point with very different outcomes.
Well said Tony Clifton!
What’s needed is revolutionary socialism.
And what exactly is that? Apart from utopian bunkum
Oh, I found it
“it is defined as seizure of political power by mass movements of the working class so that the state is directly controlled by the working class as opposed to the capitalist class and its interests. Revolutionary socialists believe such a state of affairs is a precondition for establishing socialism.”
Well personally is don’t want the working class running anything. I’d prefer a broad spectrum of people representing all facets of society working for a greater good, rather than some self pitying gimmes following antiquated doctrines proven not to work.
But that’s just me :)
Yup, that’s you alright: a predictable, mainstream, centrist, sheep.
Well why don’t you try and educate this poor sheep then Petr? Was that an inaccurate description I lifted from t’interweb? If so do please elaborate. What would the benefit be to non working class citizens of such a revolution?
Petr just got taken to school :)
Yeah, tony, as if we don’t have a touch of the communism already with the rich paying such a high proportion of the taxes!!! The fact that middle class and low class are getting poorer, is purely incidental of a global shortage of fuel, food and space.
It’s nicer than Ballymun to be fair.
Insert scene from dark knight rises. “rise” here.
What a horrible building that is. A good idea to attract new renters, would be to thread some dynamite through it, level it, and build something people would actually *want* to live in.
No one to take out the rubbish
Must have been a bummer living on the lower levels
They should just flatten the building altogether. Was a dumb ass idea to have built it in the first place! As for it being built so that the white people could have the outer view and the black people the inner view, well that’s a load of crap as well.. During apartheid in SA, no black people were allowed to live in a white residential area at all. This building never really took off at all and and so became a slum.
Horrendous
Kempston may have an office in London but it is actually owned by Tony Cottrell who started Kempston hire in Kempston road on Port Elizabeth. The head office is in East London, South Africa.
“Typical of apartheid, the desirable outward-facing apartments were reserved for white people, while the dark inner apartments were rented to black people.” This is WRONG. The entire Hillbrow neighborhood was restricted for whites during apartheid. The reason why this building has a hollow core was the building code regulations required all kitchens and bathrooms to have windows with access to natural light.
There were no inward facing apartments in this building. This article is full of misinformation. Fix your article.
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