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Feel the lack of enthusiasm
Oh that base sure is enthused:
Out of Maine's 258,000 registered Republicans, nearly 5,600 cast ballots in the weeklong contest. But questions about Romney's durability as the party's presumed front-runner persist. Fully 61 percent of Maine voters selected another candidate than Romney in a state practically in his back yard. And Romney's showing was down considerably from 2008, when he won 51 percent of the vote.
One week to get 5,600 total voters?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/11/maine-caucus-results-2012_n_1270519.html
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Did Ron Paul's zombies hang around late and take all the delegate slots?
Little Star
(17,055 posts)Incredible huh?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)I posted a link to her segment on how those caucus states will actually be won. Those votes mean nothing and Paul has found a legal way to game the system. Poor voters sure wasted their time caucusing.
Here is a link to my post that has the clip of that segment.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125111340
onehandle
(51,122 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)A mere 5,600 voters, it turns out, is actually an improvement of about 100 votes over 2008:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_Republican_caucuses,_2008
But go back to the year 2000 in Maine, and we see that nearly 100,000 voters turned out for that Republican primary:
http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=23&year=2000&f=0&off=0&elect=2
An over 90% drop-off in turnout over twelve years?
Looking over Dave Leip's election atlas, I see that the main thing that has changed has been that Maine moved from a "modified open" primary to a closed caucus.
Do we have any Mainers about who can help me along, here?
Redstate Bluegirl
(213 posts)I read that earlier this morning lol
livetohike
(22,172 posts)I thought it must be a mistake. What a humiliating turnout.