By a mile. He came in with 51 of the vote. Second place was a very distant ron paul. Ron paul came in second with only 14 of the vote. Awkwardly even though ron paul only got 14 of the vote, that was enough to give ron paul supporters a tow hold that they used that year to hijack the nominating prosays and take over the party to a point where the whole Nevada State Republican Convention was shut down and replaced with a back room Conference Call where they picked their delegates instead. It should have been a sign. We should have known with that first contest in 2008 that nevada was going to be more than meets the eye. Any way, the bottom line, that first one mitt romney won. Second one, mitt romney won. The second one was in 2012. In 2012 it was a volatile moment when nevada was having its caucus. Mitt romney won for day and the Republican Party said it was a tie and they said Rick Santorum won and ultimately ron paul got the delegates. Iowa was a contested mess in 2012 and came New H