Minnesota’s Republicans attending the 2012 caucuses voted overwhelmingly for presidential candidate Rick Santorum in the straw poll conducted Feb 7.

According to information entered in the MN Secretary of State’s website, with 100% of the Republican precincts reporting, 24,520 grassroots activists attended caucuses across Minnesota and voted as follows: 10.79-percent for Newt Gingrich; 16.85-percent for Mitt Romney; 27.12-percent for Ron Paul; and 44.95 for Rick Santorum.

Norman County’s 33 precincts were slightly different. They reported the following straw poll results for presidential candidates: zero votes for Mitt Romney; 17.39-percent for Ron Paul; 19.57-percent for Newt Gingrich; and 63.04-percent for Rick Santorum.

The Independence Party will not conduct presidential preference balloting in 2012.

The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party will report their results by March 6, 2012. They will have two choices on their ballots: Candidate Barack Obama or “uncommitted.”