Despite Victory, Santorum Delegate Haul Is Modest Former Senator Rick Santorum may have scored big in the popular vote in Louisiana on Saturday, but he netted only five delegates more than Mitt Romney, doing little to advance himself in the all-important delegate race to claim the Republican presidential nomination. With all precincts reporting, Mr. Santorum won 49 percent of the vote in Louisiana, compared with 27 percent for Mr. Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts. But he came away with only 10 of the 20 delegates who were up for grabs. Mr. Romney won five, and the other five are uncommitted. The state Republican Party will award 26 more delegates at its convention in June. Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul won no delegates because they did not reach the threshold 25 percent of the popular vote. For now, Mr. Santorum appears to have a total of about 241 delegates, half the number that Mr. Romney has, although even the former governor does not appear close to capturing the necessary 1,144 anytime soon. The Santorum campaign continues to dispute the delegate counts reported by news organizations, the Romney campaign and others, saying that Mr. Santorum is still winning delegates in states that are continuing to parcel them out. Told on Sunday on the CBS News program "Face the Nation" that he needed to win 70 percent of all remaining delegates to claim the nomination, Mr. Santorum brushed the figure aside. "There's a lot of bad math there that doesn't reflect the reality of what's going on on the ground," he said. The next big contest for the Republican candidates is in Wisconsin on April 3. The state has 42 delegates and awards them on a winner-take-all basis. Maryland, with 37 delegates, votes the same day, as does the District of Columbia, with 19 delegates, although Mr. Santorum is not on that ballot there. Mr. Santorum skirted the question of whether Wisconsin was a must-win state for him if was going to change the momentum of the race. He lowered expectations, saying he was trailing in the polls in Wisconsin and was being outspent by Mr. Romney. But he also noted that at a campaign stop on Saturday in Sheboygan, Wis., where he had gone bowling, that he had thrown three strikes in a row. "That tells you that you've got someone here who can relate to the voters in Wisconsin," he said. He continued to be dogged by his comment last week that "we might as well stay with what we have." Critics said it sounded as if Mr. Santorum was saying he would vote for President Obama instead of Mr. Romney. Mr. Santorum said the line in Texas on Thursday as he made a point he has repeated many times on the campaign trail - that Mr. Romney is Obama Lite. But then he added the line that has seemed like heresy to some Republicans: "If they're going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have." He said Sunday that when he said "we," he did not mean that he would vote for Mr. Obama but meant "the voters." "I said "we," and I was talking collectively as, "The voters would decide to stay with what they have," " he said. He said he was not referring to himself, although in speeches he often uses the plural "we" when referring to himself or his campaign. He added later that he would support the eventual Republican nominee because re-electing President Obama "would be the end of freedom as we know it here in America."