2012 REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT

The higher the odds against the matrix found, the more statistically significant is was.  Only two terms formed the basis of the matrices linked to below - in each case a candidate’s name and the word President. The most significant match was for Mitt Romney who appeared in a 17-letter, single column matrix with president at the same skip as his name.  Note that Romney not only has the best matrix, but he also led in the Republican polls as of June 5, 2011 when this search was originally conducted. The least significant match seen so far was for Rick Santorum who required 340 letters to produce a match, and even then just with an ELS that was not a special case skip like +1, -1, or the absolute value of the axis term (the candidate's name). As of December 24, 2011 there are essentially six surviving candidates. Four of the top candidates on the table below are still in the race. In order of matrix quality they are (1) Romney, (2) Perry, (3) Bachman and Gingrich. All of the them led the race at some time. The other two survivors (on the bottom of the list) are (5) Paul and (6) Santorum. The dropout from the top five, Herman Cain, also led the race at one point.