Hawaii Caucus Results Thread

[ClydeCoulter]

Wow, I am going to be worthless to myself tomorrow if I don't get to bed, (ET)...
But I would hate to miss Ron's first state win !

 

[PauliticsPolitics]

bad results coming in...

 

[coaster]

All my friends voting for RP are Rabid in their support. They've been spreading the word on campus.

If that's the case, why would they skip the caucus? Voting for congressmen in the primary doesn't really do much for Ron Paul.

 

[bunklocoempire]

The link again for ease:

http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results/2012/gop-primary/hi

 

[PolicyReader]

Voter support = awesome. Actual votes =

Fixed

Making real GOTV efforts successful seems to be like pulling teeth. I know of at least four separate call centers (three pure grassroots) on top of whatever canvassing is going on and we're still seeing low numbers. It's this surreal thing where it seems people don't understand that going to vote is a vital part of this whole operation

 

[lakerssuck92]

Getting hit hard in Honolulu. We'll end up 3rd...

 

[MarcusI]

bad results coming in...

really bad ....

 

[CHOCOLATEsteven]

Yes.
It seems there is no Absentee ballot for the caucus.
There is likely a primary for local offices, and that is what the absentee ballot is for.
If a bunch of lazy people did not caucus for Paul because they thought they could absentee vote, I will cry 3 blood-tears.

it's not that they were lazy, they were from Oahu.

 

[PauliticsPolitics]

42.2% reporting (19/45)

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[TD]Romney[/TD]
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34.5%​

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862​

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[TD]Santorum[/TD]
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30.5%​

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761​

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[TD]Paul[/TD]
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21.5%​

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536​

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[TD]Gingrich[/TD]
[TD]

13.5%​

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338​

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[MarcusI]

13% in is what scares the crap outta me. lol

You were right....

 

[digitaldean]

Look like we will be coming in 3rd with hopefully over 20%...goodnight.

 

[parocks]

Given the way Ron Paul folks act, you'd have to try harder to be just kidding. I actually thought you were being serious.

Do Ron Paul folks do extra GOTV?

We have to. We need to do these things. It's almost as if no one understands how important GOTV is with populations of people who aren't reliable voters.

In fact it's not almost that. It is that. Over and over and over, people type "those college student are unreliable. they don't vote a lot." Right. That's why you have GOTV.

You don't need an ad. You need people Getting Out The Vote.

You can spend 100K on tv commercials and it won't do anything.

Or you can spend 100K on a tiny area like a college and get 1K 5K 10K votes.

Democrats understand this, because Democrat have "unreliable voters" in cities. And they developed a system where the unreliable voters are delivered to the polls.
Walking Around Money. Street Money. GOTV Money.

We need that on college campuses. etc etc etc.

Point is though, we're pretty much in a post-votes stage. Hopefully Maine goes to Paul, and the delegates there are so persuasive that they cause everybody to vote for Ron Paul. That's the scenario we're looking at right now. But with more than Maine, and maybe we get some delegates here or there.

 

[toast]

Goodnight, folks.

 

[Nicholas F.]

Romney 34%
Santorum 30%
Paul 22%
Gingrich 14%

 

[PauliticsPolitics]

many more ballots arriving now...

 

[PolicyReader]

Do Ron Paul folks do extra GOTV?

I know for a fact that some of the grassroots did, both on the ground and calling in from out of state.

Can't say how much impact it had relative to everything else of course, and it could certainly have been bigger. But there's zero question that there are people busting their butts to make this happen state by state. Just seems that sadly it's usually the minority of us who are actually doing it

so I guess "yes and no" YES for some and *meh* for others?

 

[JJ2]

Paul loses Maui County by 9 votes... 100% in.

 

[bunklocoempire]

Is that where you organized, bunkloco?

No. I'm Mt.View/Volcano area more South. I'm glad for Waimea though.

I'm stuck on an island and there is Paul folk, not a lot apparently, but there is Paul folk. It lifts the spirits, even if just a little.

My only hope would be that the more pain comes our way the more Liberty folks we'll get. Seems to be a help.

 

[PolicyReader]

No. I'm Mt.View/Volcano area more South. I'm glad for Waimea though.

I'm stuck on an island and there is Paul folk, not a lot apparently, but there is Paul folk. It lifts the spirits, even if just a little.

My only hope would be that the more pain comes our way the more Liberty folks we'll get. Seems to be a help.

It does seem to be how things pan out, I'd love to avert some of the extremity of that (as I'm sure we all would) but that does tend to be the way.

 

[JasonM]

many more ballots arriving now...

Only a miracle will let us win this one now. Sorry folks, another dud. Headlines will say "Romney win's Obama's home state" while the delegates are divied out more or less equally, which means hawaii changes things very little.

But at least I went and voted, gave up my Missouri voter registration to vote for Ron Paul in Hawaii.