From The Ground in Maine: Romney's Plan Backfired

[sailingaway]

I hope it is close in Cumberland. If it is close there we can win.

It won't be close if they knock out the big caucuses where Ron dominates as they did the city of Portland.

 

[CTRattlesnake]

It won't be close if they knock out the big caucuses where Ron dominates as they did the city of Portland.

I thought they only had issues with the delegate count not the straw poll

 

[ItsTime]

It won't be close if they knock out the big caucuses where Ron dominates as they did the city of Portland.

What was the strawpoll count?

 

[Philosophy_of_Politics]

Can someone get ahold of the campaign, get our lawyers on Portland?

 

[CTRattlesnake]

Were ahead of Mitt 42-34

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...8dEdGUWZjS1FwTW8wTzVyOEJ6dmg4cHc&toomany=true

Santorum is beating Mitt in Androscoggin

 

[GraniteHills]

Knowing fully RP's delegate strategy, they will now work to neutralize it. The results of the straw polls hardly matter now; even if RP wins Maine, the establishment GOP can rig and massage the delegate assignation process until they get the script they want.

 

[ItsTime]

Were ahead of Mitt 42-34

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...8dEdGUWZjS1FwTW8wTzVyOEJ6dmg4cHc&toomany=true

Santorum is beating Mitt in Androscoggin

Those numbers are wrong then. Androscoggin went 200(something ) Ron 140 Mitt and 130 Santorum.

 

[pauliticalfan]

Damn, how does that Brunswick caucus affect things?

 

[sailingaway]

What was the strawpoll count?

My understanding is the straw poll count was probably close. They are also not announcing them so they can 'surprise' this evening, I believe. But after the vote the Romney people left and the delegate count apparently was NOT close and one of our guys won the slot to appoint vacancy delegates.

If they make it impossible to work within their system, they bring the results on themselves.

 

[CTRattlesnake]

Those numbers are wrong then. Androscoggin went 200(something ) Ron 140 Mitt and 130 Santorum.

Im skeptical, but its the best info we have at this point. As long as RP wins, I dont really care who's in second

 

[tsetsefly]

Those numbers are wrong then. Androscoggin went 200(something ) Ron 140 Mitt and 130 Santorum.

Do you know the exact total:, I want to add it to my results page... thx

 

[JJ2]

My understanding is the straw poll count was probably close. They are also not announcing them so they can 'surprise' this evening, I believe.

Then how are we getting numbers from certain caucus locations?

 

[ssjevot]

Do you know the exact total:, I want to add it to my results page... thx

Paul - 212
Romney - 140
Santorum - 130
Gingrich - 12

 

[sailingaway]

Then how are we getting numbers from certain caucus locations?

they aren't official, they are notes from people there if they saw them etc. and according to at least one post at least one entry isn't correct. And a bunch of locations are haphazardly reported, we don't know the numbers that aren't included since they just weren't read to the group.

 

[parocks]

My understanding is the straw poll count was probably close. They are also not announcing them so they can 'surprise' this evening, I believe. But after the vote the Romney people left and the delegate count apparently was NOT close and one of our guys won the slot to appoint vacancy delegates.

If they make it impossible to work within their system, they bring the results on themselves.

the spreadsheet has the portland numbers on it

 

[ross11988]

Knowing fully RP's delegate strategy, they will now work to neutralize it. The results of the straw polls hardly matter now; even if RP wins Maine, the establishment GOP can rig and massage the delegate assignation process until they get the script they want.

Sure they'll try, but it will be harder to neutralize the (hopeful) grassroots momentum of a Ron Paul win.

 

[Sarge]

Bump

 

[PaleoPaul]

How did we do in Portland?

 

[Wooden Indian]

Anyone else just see Fox Live in Maine? They interviewed caucus goers and played the interviews....

Guess who they left out? LMAO

That's right, you guessed it. No Ron Paul supporters were included. Faux News knows no bounds.

 

[helmuth_hubener]

The most useful thing any of the secret millionaires could do for us: buy Fox News. Seriously. None of the other news outlets matter at all -- Republican voters totally distrust them all.

Republicans meanwhile don't trust anything except Fox News. PBS comes the closest to breaking even among non-Fox outlets, although not very close, at -30 (26/56). It's followed by CNN at -49 (18/67), MSNBC at -51 (18/69), NBC at -52 (17/69), CBS at -54 (17/71), ABC at -56 (14/70), and Comedy Central at -59 (12/71). But Fox News comes in at a stellar 73/17. -- PPP

There is a large block of Republican voters that is completely and totally and utterly owned by Fox News. If we buy Fox and gradually (and subtlely) make it more Paul-friendly, we win that entire block.