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kpete

(72,056 posts)
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 10:46 AM Feb 2012

One week to get 5,600 total voters?

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
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Scuba

(53,475 posts)
1. Maine Republican voters are really excited about their candidates, huh?
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 11:14 AM
Feb 2012

Did Ron Paul's zombies hang around late and take all the delegate slots?

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
4. Paul's "senior campaign advisor" was gloating on Rachel about how they were disenfranchising voters.
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 11:19 AM
Feb 2012

Little Star

(17,055 posts)
6. Yep. Rachel let us peak behind the curtain and...
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 11:48 AM
Feb 2012

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

sofa king

(10,857 posts)
5. This is blowing my mind.
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 11:32 AM
Feb 2012

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?

livetohike

(22,172 posts)
8. When I saw those total numbers on TV this morning,
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 11:51 AM
Feb 2012

I thought it must be a mistake. What a humiliating turnout.

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