State GOP to disenfranchise Republicans in eastern Maine.
Webster said any caucus results that come in after Saturday wouldn't be counted no matter how close the vote turned out to be.
Maine's caucuses began February 4 and continued throughout the week. But the results announced Saturday accounted for just 83 percent of all precincts in the state. Several communities elected to hold their caucuses at a later date.
Caucuses in Washington County scheduled Saturday were postponed until February 18 because of a major snowstorm that blanketed the region. Earlier, the state party's Executive Director Michael Quatrano said county officials were told the results would not count toward the total.
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I checked out the Ron Paul forums (please, please, no accusations about being a paulbot! I didn't even know they existed until they were linked here in a thread about the Maddow story!) - but looking at the forums, this seems like it is getting really good.
Remember how we knew they couldn't fuck Obama with any delegate shenanigans (like, say, suddenly verifying the Michigan/Florida "results"
because with so many new voters/the level of investment of people who voted for Obama in the primaries was high enough that do so would destroy the Democratic Party?
Well, the way they are monkeying with the Republican primaries, caucuses...
The Republican leadership may think everything will proceed swimmingly, but I'm starting to think not so much. These people (Paul supporters) are not going to go quietly along with being rooked. They strike me as the sort who are going to be vindictive (yes!) about this and actively strike back during the general election.
If we could, say, get a deeply flawed candidate like Romney plus a super-pissed off group causing massive dissension - that sounds pretty appealing.
