Paul got approximately 5% (93% reporting), but the bigger news is McCain still only got 75% or so of the vote. These are the primaries. For this late in the game, 75% over and over is troubling. Perhaps the GOP will realize they've messed up bigtime. Perhaps not.
As an aside, Ed Burgess did well in his race today (won by 11 votes!) for 30th District House of Delegates. Anyone who saw the coverage from the WV GOP Convention will remember Ed as the gentleman who gave a very rousing introductory speech before Dr. Paul spoke.
Our Republican Presidential Ballot held six candidate names:
Romney, McCain, Paul, Huckabee, Keyes, and ??? (Sorry the guy was one of those really really really unknown people who I'd never heard of until I walked up to the machine.
To give people background, McCain did terribly on Super Tuesday during our State GOP Convention. He barely had more delegates than Dr. Paul in a field of four. The people who were there "for" McCain were generally unethused. McCain did not speak at our Convention and sent a proxy who insulted our state, our football team, etc. There are still "party voters" who may go out in droves to vote for McCain, so don't get TOO excited :P
Huckabee won the state with the assistance of Paul & McCain delegates back on Super Tuesday. His "people" and ours got along well. There has been a general sort of apathy to the state compared to how it was just those few short months ago, but we're still here voting for Paul today. It's a bit of a toss-up right now as to what will happen, imo. Ideally I would love Dr. Paul to win. As a second choice, I would love for Huckabee or even Romney to win the state. I want it said and on the record that McCain got beat by someone not even running.
It should be mentioned that this is a closed primary. Those people wishing to vote on the NUMEROUS local races and have a significant impact will have to have chosen the "Democrat ballot", which means their Presidential choices are Hillary and Obama.
The polling place was not empty, but definitely not packed. There were no exit polls (but I went around 4pm... most exit polls exist early and late in the voting day), and the workers were very courteous. The vote was via machine with a paper receipt/ticket which one could read as it was printed out. Our machines in WV have generally been pretty good to date.
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Paul got approximately 5% (93% reporting), but the bigger news is McCain still only got 75% or so of the vote. These are the primaries. For this late in the game, 75% over and over is troubling. Perhaps the GOP will realize they've messed up bigtime. Perhaps not.
As an aside, Ed Burgess did well in his race today (won by 11 votes!) for 30th District House of Delegates. Anyone who saw the coverage from the WV GOP Convention will remember Ed as the gentleman who gave a very rousing introductory speech before Dr. Paul spoke.
The Only Thing That Bothers Me
is getting lapped by someone who pulled out of the race. What the F*%@?
Wow - they must really be scared...Dr. Paul is actually listed
He's listed as a candidate.....haven't been on CNN is so long.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTI...
WV Status
Just as a start...
Our Republican Presidential Ballot held six candidate names:
Romney, McCain, Paul, Huckabee, Keyes, and ??? (Sorry the guy was one of those really really really unknown people who I'd never heard of until I walked up to the machine.
To give people background, McCain did terribly on Super Tuesday during our State GOP Convention. He barely had more delegates than Dr. Paul in a field of four. The people who were there "for" McCain were generally unethused. McCain did not speak at our Convention and sent a proxy who insulted our state, our football team, etc. There are still "party voters" who may go out in droves to vote for McCain, so don't get TOO excited :P
Huckabee won the state with the assistance of Paul & McCain delegates back on Super Tuesday. His "people" and ours got along well. There has been a general sort of apathy to the state compared to how it was just those few short months ago, but we're still here voting for Paul today. It's a bit of a toss-up right now as to what will happen, imo. Ideally I would love Dr. Paul to win. As a second choice, I would love for Huckabee or even Romney to win the state. I want it said and on the record that McCain got beat by someone not even running.
It should be mentioned that this is a closed primary. Those people wishing to vote on the NUMEROUS local races and have a significant impact will have to have chosen the "Democrat ballot", which means their Presidential choices are Hillary and Obama.
The polling place was not empty, but definitely not packed. There were no exit polls (but I went around 4pm... most exit polls exist early and late in the voting day), and the workers were very courteous. The vote was via machine with a paper receipt/ticket which one could read as it was printed out. Our machines in WV have generally been pretty good to date.
Voting closes at 7:30pm Eastern.
Thanks
Thanks MelissaWV for the information - I appreciate your effort.
And for Results:
I don't like CNN much, but their ticker is usually pretty up to date.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTI...
They also have McCain as the projected winner... they do that a lot. I guess the party faithful are in lock-step, but let's just see by how much hmm?