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With the results from Super Tuesday races just in, Mitt Romney still appears to be the front runner winning in six out of ten states: Alaska, Idaho, Virginia, Ohio, Massachusetts, and Vermont. Rick Santorum still trails him, winning in three states: North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. Newt Gingrich won the race in Georgia – the state he represented in Congress for two decades. And even though Ron Paul did not win outright in any states, he hauled in 40% of the vote in Virginia – a state where Santorum and Gingrich failed to qualify for the ballot, leaving voters with only two options. Paul also won substantial percentages in Alaska, North Dakota, and Vermont. Because all ten states use some form of proportional allocation, percentages of votes translate into delegates.

Mitt Romney now boasts a total of 415 delegates according to the Associated Press. His win in Ohio, which is considered a crucial swing state in the general election, surprised many after days of poor showings in pre-election polls. Money has played a huge role in the GOP primary race so far and Super Tuesday was no exception: The Super PAC supporting Romney spent more than $4 million on ads in Ohio, while the group backing Santorum spent less than a quarter of that amount.

Rick Santorum’s wins in the southern states of Tennessee and Oklahoma have been attributed to their significant fundamentalist Christian populations.

In the coming week, elections and caucuses in Kansas, the Virgin Islands, Wyoming, Alabama, Mississippi, Hawaii, and American Samoa will take place.

GUEST: Ari Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation magazine and an Investigative Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute. He has written extensively about American politics, foreign policy and the intersection of money and politics. His book, Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics, is just out in paperback. Ari Berman is Uprising’s Election Analyst