The 186,000 total voters was far less than just the 220,000 who voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 Louisiana Primary, and Santorum captured almost 50 percent of that crowd on Saturday.

The GOP can’t get excited: Louisiana’s voting population is 1,750,550, and 31 percent are black.

What does that say for Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, who certain thought this was going to be his point of resurgence? It says that Romney is still comfortably ahead in terms of delegates, but isn’t going to run away with the race and nail down the nomination yet. It says that Newt Gingrich just plain can’t close the deal absent some scandal, real or imagined, that can turn the tables in his favor.

It also says the GOP’s just not delivering the right message.