All of your Maine Questions answered in one thread

[bkreigh]

Keep it going Maine! If Paul comes in first, I'm gonna buy a TON of lobster.

Z

Make sure you get em with a maine tag on it. You dont want those generic ones!

 

[devil21]

Lose the straw poll but win the delegates. That's what I'm talkin bout.

Keep it going Maine! If Paul comes in first, I'm gonna buy a TON of lobster.

Z

The problem is that we can win all the delegates we want but it doesnt mean a thing if Paul doesnt win 5 states *at the polls*. Delegates are great and are the main focus but he still has to win 5 states to be eligible for the nomination at a brokered national convention. That is my understanding of the GOP rules.

Anyway, keep it up Maine! Take a note from Huck's book and shovel all your snow into Romney voter's driveways lol.

 

[hueylong]

Most of us know about rule 40(b) and needing 5 states or territories. Maine is the start.

By the way -- it IS delegates. You have to win 'the majority of delegates' in 5 states.

So... as I understand it, Nevada may already have put us on the scoreboard.

 

[Rangeley]

Yea, the straw poll literally has no bearing on anything.

 

[devil21]

Most of us know about rule 40(b) and needing 5 states or territories. Maine is the start.

By the way -- it IS delegates. You have to win 'the majority of delegates' in 5 states.

So... as I understand it, Nevada may already have put us on the scoreboard.

Good point. I guess it depends on the state's procedure itself how 40b is applied. Florida was all delegates go to the primary poll winner. Other states are like that as well. Gosh this stuff is confusing

EDIT: Ah ok. The difference is whether it's a primary state or a caucus state. Got it!

 

[mello]

Heres an unofficial running total of the results so far (Freeport, Bridgeton, Gorham, Frankfurt):

Strawpoll
Romney 84
Paul 33
McCain 15
Huckabee 2

Delegates
Paul 25
Romney 6*
McCain 1*

*The actual number is definitely higher than this, but this is as far as has been reported here so far.

Are Romney supporters stuffing the ballots again like the Florida Straw Poll?

 

[r3volution1776]

How many local delegates attend the state convention in maine?

 

[erowe1]

The problem is that we can win all the delegates we want but it doesnt mean a thing if Paul doesnt win 5 states *at the polls*. Delegates are great and are the main focus but he still has to win 5 states to be eligible for the nomination at a brokered national convention. That is my understanding of the GOP rules.

Anyway, keep it up Maine! Take a note from Huck's book and shovel all your snow into Romney voter's driveways lol.

That's not true. There may be a rule that says he has to win 5 states in an unbrokered convention. But in a brokered convention anybody can win, even someone who never entered the race at all.

 

[raystone]

any news ?

 

[CGMike]

I left my official Maine GOP tally sheet at the office but IF every city/town/plantation caucuses then there are approx 3,000 delegates at the state convention. However, only 75%-80% of towns are caucusing and those that don't caucus at all, are not awarded delegates. Those delegates decide the 21 delegates going to National. Hence we win the most state delegates we win the national delegates.

 

[dawnbt]

you have got to be shitting me. Freakin Romney. What a dildo.

He reminds me of a sleazy used car salesman!

 

[r3volution1776]

I left my official Maine GOP tally sheet at the office but IF every city/town/plantation caucuses then there are approx 3,000 delegates at the state convention. However, only 75%-80% of towns are caucusing and those that don't caucus at all, are not awarded delegates. Those delegates decide the 21 delegates going to National. Hence we win the most state delegates we win the national delegates.

Thanks, gives us a better perspective of where we stand as the numbers come in, somewhere between 1,200 and 1,500 is a majority for the state delegates and if we get that, we win for sure...

 

[NJNSB]

He reminds me of a sleazy used car salesman!

Eh? Give the man a little credit.

How about a sleazy used "luxury car" salesman?

 

[CGMike]

Correct, and I'm still waiting on word from the Northern Aroostook Caucus, where I'll be very surprised if we don't win up that way. Fellow forum Member SteveMartin is caucusing up that way and i'm sure he'll post the results when he slogs his way back from Fort Kent (a 2 1/2 hour drive for him btw just so you get an idea how big maine is (or at least "the county") area-wise

 

[hueylong]

Interesting.

 

[justatrey]

This is interesting - If the straw poll has no bearing on the number of state delegates won, what does? How does a candidate win the state delegates in Maine?

 

[Joseph Hart]

I wonder what Livermore Falls votes are like. I used to live in that shithole.

 

[CGMike]

You win the national delegates, by having the most delegates at the state convention, simply put. I don't want to discuss strategy too much in here, but we always looked at the big picture here in the state.

 

[CGMike]

A little bit of info on "The County"

# Aroostook County Population: 73,938 - US Census Bureau Data 2000
# Population is 5.8% of the state's total population
# Originally part of Washington and Penobscot Counties
# Aroostook is named for an Indian word meaning "beautiful river"
# Incorporated March 16, 1839
# Contains 2 cities, 54 towns, 11 plantations, and 108 unorganized townships
# Density is 11.1 persons per square mile
# Area - 6,672 square miles (21.6% of the state's area): 89% of the County's area is forest, 1% lakes, ponds and rivers, 10% cultivated farmland
# Houlton is the Aroostook County seat with offices in Caribou and Fort Kent
# Maine's northernmost county bordered to the east, west and north by Canada
# Aroostook County is larger than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined
# Aroostook County is the largest U.S. county east of the Mississippi River.
# Major crops: broccoli, potatoes, hay, small grain rotation crops
# Site of two transatlantic balloon crossing launch sites
# Aroostook County is home to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway

 

[ProfNo]

You win the national delegates, by having the most delegates at the state convention, simply put. I don't want to discuss strategy too much in here, but we always looked at the big picture here in the state.

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