Santorum accuses Romney of rigging Michigan delegate assignment

[Riot]

Wow. The GOP primary season has already been plagued by reams of "lost" votes, wrong candidates declared the winner, etc. Problem after problem.

And now, Santorum accuses the GOP of ignoring the rules to give extra delegates to Romney. It appears Santorum is right.

Rick Santorum's campaign on Thursday said Mitt Romney's campaign is trying to "rig" the Michigan primary, accusing the Romney camp of "political thuggery" for getting the Michigan GOP to change its delegate allocation rules to favor Romney.

The Michigan Republican party voted on Thursday to allocate 16 delegates to Romney and 14 to Santorum in the wake of Michigan's primary, which Romney won over Santorum by three percentage points. Romney and Santorum each won seven of the state's congressional districts, and were thus each awarded seven delegates; the state party on Wednesday voted to award Romney an additional two "at large" delegates for winning the statewide vote.

The Santorum campaign reacted angrily to the decision, asserting that under the rules laid out before the primary, Santorum and Romney should each get 15 delegates. A split in the delegate allocation allows Santorum to claim a tie in a primary held in the state where Romney was born.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_1...-rig-michigan/