Giuliani beating Ron Paul in Missouri - NO, NOT KIDDING!

FINAL:

Paul, Ron 26,427
Romney, Mitt 172,390
McCain, John 194,119
Huckabee, Mike 185,573
Giuliani, Rudy 3,593
UNCOMMITTED 2,083

All others (drop-outs & also-rans added together) 4664




"...it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security..."

Ok we now have 4 times the votes of Guiliani..
If this was all from ONE district someone might want to make an inquiry, make sure the machine was calibrated right.

Paul, Ron REP 4,215 4.9%
Thompson, Fred REP 775 .9%
Romney, Mitt REP 21,560 24.9%
Giuliani, Rudy REP 894 1.0%
McCain, John REP 26,049 30.1%
Huckabee, Mike REP 32,262 37.3%

The Dems had the first bunch of rows (it's columns in NYC, but I'm upstate) and the Republicans were way down on the bottom row, actually a bit hard to find. The election worker sets the machine for Dem or Rep; I assume only one set of levers works at a time. Ron Paul was listed first, then there were some blank spaces for the removed candidates (Duncan Hunter, the other dropout, and Alan Keyes, who didn't submit enough delegates to stay on the ballot) then Giuliani, who dropped out too late to be removed, followed by the others. So, expect some NY vote for Giuliani, whether or not they report it. :-(

The state the brought you John Ashcroft and Dick Gephardt

I would bet these votes came from Southern St Louis suburbs. They always report first in statewide elections. This is Neo-Con central. We will beat Rudy.

I just saw my first Ron Paul commercial in Kansas City. On CNN 45 minutes after the polls closed. It could have been intended for Kansas, but a majority of KC's residents are in MO. The KC market also represents the biggest city in KS (which caucuses Saturday), but yesterday this would have been more bang for the buck.

Paul's ahead of him now. I don't know if that's an "early voting" state, but that might account for it.

Could these be folks who voted absentee? And mailed in their ballot before the dropouts?

For Liberty!
Becky Blauvelt

For Missouri

Politico website shows (1%)
McCain - 3298
Romney - 2493
Huckabee - 2302
Paul - 402
Other - 1201

Missouri SOS shows (1.4%)
Huckabee - 2872
McCain - 2378
Romney - 1727
Paul - 332

I can see some minor discrepancies, but that's just plain crazy!

Here's why:

A candidate is not automatically removed from the ballot when he quits the race. It varies by state, but sometimes candidates who qualified for the ballot remain on the ballot regardless of their intentions. In Tennessee, right now with 11% reporting, Fred Thompson has 10% of the vote. Giuliani is polling in at least 5 states (as I type this hes in SECOND PLACE in New Jersey).

It's the rule of the game. If I ran the world I'd make it so only currently declared candidates remain on the ballot, but that's not the way the world works.

At least that is my guess.

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