Romney eeks out a a 3 point win over Ron Paul in Maine 39 -36

[grantcart]

Four years ago Romney got 51% of the vote.


Great win Mitt, maybe your last for a while.


See you in Michigan.

[customerserviceguy]

1. I guess Paul gets another clear shot at Romney in Virginia

He won't have to put up with Ricky and Noot on the ballot, he gets to be the sole anti-Mitt. If the two of them are smart, they'll tell their supporters to vote for Paul just to deny Mittens the victory in a Southern state.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

2. Why the fuck is it taking so long to count the REST of the votes?

[grantcart]

3. They are caucuses not polls

They meet in remote areas and some were postponed due to weather.

I understand that they have been going on all week.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

6. I fully understand that these are caucuses. What I understand is that one county is not being

counted.

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.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...4527be65f7b2dc

[grantcart]

7. ah got it

They probably figure that allowing some caucuses to postpone would allow some chairmen who feared that their guy was going to lose the caucus to try and game the system by postponing.

In any case Ron Paul is right about real delegates.


This is only the first step. They have to choose delegates for county and then state. It is quite likely that Ron Paul will end up with 70% of the delegates at Florida.

[DCBob]

4. So is Romney back on track again?

He won Maine and CPAC straw poll. Has he got the big mo back? It will be interesting to see the next round of polls from Michigan.

[book_worm]

9. If you consider a 3-point edge over Ron Paul in a state where he got 51% four

years ago a win--then maybe he is back on track? I think it's pretty pathetic for the presumptive front runner.

[DCBob]

11. I think in this case a win is a win.

The way things were going in the polls it looked like he was toast. Maybe he still is but the "win" in Maine and CPAC might give him a bit of new life.

[Major Hogwash]

10. Yes, he is. He is right back on track again . .

. . aboard the crazy GOP train.

All aboard!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaa!

Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay

Crazy . . but that's how it goes
Millions of people living as foes
Maybe it's not too late
To learn how to love
And forget how to hate

Mental wounds not healing
Life's a bitter shame
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train

Let's Go!

[madrchsod]

5. over ron paul?

that certainly says a lot about the maine republican party....

[joshcryer]

8. I love how close this is, the Ron Paul fanatics must be losing their crap.

Total conspiracy, etc.

(And hey, it might be, I know there are some weird things coming out of Maine.)