Maine GOP sticks with Romney win for now
AUGUSTA — Maine's Republican Party says Mitt Romney's narrow win over Ron Paul in the state's presidential caucuses will stand for now, even as Republicans in one eastern county whose caucus was postponed due to bad weather are proceeding with a rescheduled vote.
State Party Chairman Charlie Webster said today that Saturday's caucus results won't be altered at least until the state committee takes up the matter at its March 10 meeting. In the meantime, Republicans in Washington County, where a snowstorm forced a postponement, will hold their caucuses Feb. 18.
Washington County GOP Chairman Chris Gardner said the county's results will be posted after they are counted.
"The fact of the matter is we're going to hold our vote, we're going to announce the results and the media can do its own math," said Gardner. "Regardless of who wins, those votes need to be counted and that's what we're doing."
http://www.pressherald.com/news/Maine-GOP-sticks-with-Romney-win-for-now.html
There has been a lot of noise about not counting the Washington and part of Hancock Counties that haven't caucused yet.
The GOP Chair has "sort of" backed off on saying this is the final count. He's been getting a lot of heat about this. It's pretty messed up. And I love it.
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The results could change - if Paul can manage to tempt 200 more people out than Mitt on Saturday. The county has 7,000 registered Republicans out of 32,000 residents - so its possible!
Given the attention being given to it there may even be a very high turnout - and its a conservative pro Paul sort of place. Perhaps Mitt has a million dollar ad buy planned at all the local stores against Paul!
But the question is how did this all happen. The cancellation of the Washington caucus at the last minute due to 'bad weather' was strange. I gather the Girl Guides managed to hold a local event in the county on Saturday - but the snow was just too bad for those adult Republicans to caucus apparently!
And I rarely, if ever, come to the defense of Republicans.
The forecast was nasty. And this was a county-wise caucus and the county is very large geographically. They had to postpone it with enough notice for those who had to travel a good distance. I can understand why they did this.
Maine Democrats have one caucus day for everyone. And each town has a "snow day" announced. There's a date by which all caucuses that are postponed must be held. I don't know if the GOP has the same rule.
That's as far as I'll go to defend them. 
I like ornery and in this case, even moreso. 
