Results in Maine

URGENT

MAINER'S: EMAIL THIS TO EVERYONE IN YOUR MEETUPS

Email/Call everyone who might be in the following list of towns that caucus tomorrow (SUNDAY 02/03/08). We are within 100 votes of McCain and we have a chance to place 2nd in the beauty contest.

IF YOU RESIDE IN THIS TOWN OR KNOW SOMEONE WHO DOES: IT IS URGENT AND IMPERATIVE THAT YOU CONTACT EVERYONE WHO IS A REPUBLICAN OR UNDECIDED/INDEPENDENT. I DON'T CARE HOW YOU GET THEM TO THE CAUCUS. GET THEM TO THE CAUCUS!!!!! YORK COUNTY TOWNS ARE ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT AS THEY ARE PRETTY BIG AND ARE IN ROMNEY COUNTRY. WE NEED YOUR BROTHER, SISTER, MOTHER, FATHER, AUNT, UNCLE, COUSIN, FRIEND, CO-WORKER, GRANDPARENTS, AND IT'S SUNDAY SO MOST PEOPLE ARE OFF. WE CAN STILL DO THIS!

EXPECT ROMNEY'S PAID PEOPLE TO BE OUT IN FORCE WITH BUTTONS, STICKERS, SIGNS, AND PAID SPEAKERS. WE MUST HAVE EXCELLENT REPRESENTATION AT THESE LOCATIONS.

TOWN CAUCUSES HELD ON SUNDAY 02/03/08:

CITY / COUNTY

CUMBERLAND (CUMBERLAND)

GRAY (CUMBERLAND)

AURORA (HANCOCK)

STONINGTON (HANCOCK)

PITTSTON (KENEBEC)

ROME (KENEBEC)

ANDOVER (OXFORD)

HEBRON (OXFORD)

DEXTER (PENOBSCOT)

GARLAND (PENOBSCOT)

KITTERY (YORK)

YORK (YORK)

this campaign has left Paul out to dry.............they have NO impact anywhere..............and they leave it up to Paul to take it on TV and fight the fight, and do ALLLLLL the speaking . forget it , super tuesday will be slooper snoooseday. Thanks campaign, you were entrusted with the most gifted Statesman this Kuntry has seen in a loooooooooooooooong time........ and this is all you can do

Yahoo and CNN are only GUESSING on the number of delegates to the State Convention in May for each candidate. They are taking the straw poll results and ASSUMING that the delegates to the state convention will reflect this breakdown.
HOWEVER, the delegates are not bound by the straw poll results. You may have a case where Town X voted 90% for Romney but all of the delegates from Town X are RP supporters. I know for a fact that in one town RP got 40% of the straw poll vote but 85% of the delegates.

PLEASE DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED BY THE FAKE DELEGATE COUNT THAT THE MSM PUBLISHES. There is no way for the MSM to know the # of delegates supporting each candidate because delegates do not state their preference until the State Convention in May. PLEASE DO NOT GET ANGRY AT THE RP CAMPAIGN STAFF. They did a great job in Maine because they understand how the Maine system works.

What is the campaing thinking,,,,,,,,,,,,,this match will be over with soon. We have no wins, not even in New Hampshire...........they've beat the brains out of the Ron Paul Campaign..................Oh, I'm glad to see "we've" got an "economic advisor" now........ shit for brains staff. Take heart Ron Paul fans, this campaign was NOT professionally managend. I think they knew this,,,,,,,,,,,,,they were bought off just like the rest of the bunch of thugmasters.........wake up, and realize,,,,,,,,,,,,,it's over as we know it.

Congratulations to Ron Paul and his supporters in Maine! Never give up the fight for freedom, you've only just begun.

Since Bath Iron Works is a major employer up there, and has been laying off recently, I wonder how much that factors into things.

You have to know which side your bread is buttered on and if there's now war, there's no spending on war ships.

This campaign staff has sunck this battleship!

Obviously the people of Maine are interested in more war and welfare.

My question though is why are the people in maine more interested in war and welfare? Why do the people of maine dislike freedom?

two things happen at the maine caucus

1) a non-binding presidential straw poll is taken. these results are released to the media and are what the media may try to use to determine an estimate of delegates.

2) delegates are selected for the state convention held in may. these delegates will select the delegates to go to the nominating convention in minnesota. the delegates selected today are not bound by the straw poll results. each town gets a certain number of delegate slots based upon population.

here is an example of what could happen in a random town. 50 people show up and cast a ballot in the straw poll...23 for willard romney, 15 for ron paul, 8 for john mccain, 2 for mike huckabee, 1 for alan keyes, and 1 undecided. these results go to the MSM for spin. this is step #1. however, random town also gets to send 8 delegates (and 8 alternates) to the state convention. of these 8 delegates in random town, 6 support ron paul, 1 supports romney, and 1 hasn't made up her mind yet. these delegates are not bound by the straw poll results!

so, the big question is "how many RP supporters are delegates to the convention in Augusta, ME in May?" from what I have been hearing, we may have a good number! these delegates will select who goes to the national convention and fight the real battle.

nathalja, I'm quite PO'd too about Paul's 3rd place finish but cheer up: tomorrow there are still caucuses where Paul can do well (let's flood the caucuses with RP supporters and people who are delegates!!!) and Paul has the most (if not a majority) of all the state delegates (he even won the most in Portland). And after his performance in the MTV debate tonight, we might see a big shift of the undecideds going to Paul. Let's make sure that the undecideds watch this debate by talking to all of them. ;)

Maine is not winner-take-all, right?

Also, how the HELL is McINSANE beating Ron Paul now?

I do not like this ONE BIT! :(

I may be a vegetarian, but I'll defend to the death my right to eat pork!

They are showing 18 delegates for the Mittster. Maine has 21 total? what up?

From a Maine patriot:

I attended my town caucus in Maine (in York County). At each town caucus anyone was free to count the presidential preference survey votes and/or watch the votes counted. At my town caucus the votes were counted in front of everyone and this is most likely how it was done at the other towns as well. I don't expect that any fraud or unfair practices occured. Everything was conducted openly and fairly. The results in my town:
Presidential Preference Poll
Romney 9
Paul 6
McCain 5
Huckabee 2

However, Ron Paul got 1st place in delegates to the state convention for my town. My town can send 11 delegates to the state convention in May. All 11 seats were filled and 7 of the 11 seats were filled with Ron Paul supporters (this I know, not because delegates were required to express who they support, but because I personally know that these 7 delegates support Ron Paul). Ron Paul did not get 7 votes in the preference poll because one of the delegates nominated to the state convention had to leave early before the poll was conducted. Even though Ron Paul got either 2nd or 3rd in the presidential preference poll state wide, he likely did better with delegate representation to the state convention because many of his supporters were more willing to be delegates to the state convention. Even though my town filled its 11 seats, many towns did not fill there alloted seats because there were not enough people who wanted to fill them.

Keep in mind that the presidential preference poll is completely non-binding and has nothing whatsoever to do with the selection of delegates. I have already seen articles in the mainstream media which have said otherwise. This may or may not be true with the Democratic caucus next week, but it is not true of the Republican caucuses.