Just Got Back from Louisiana HQ

[The Magic Hoof]

#5 was 'undecided'. I'm working on getting a copy of the slate descriptions....

 

[Shotdown1027]

The "someone else" was a kitchen-sink mixture. Former supporters of Santorum, Gingrich, Bachmann, and Perry. It was a strong group, trust me.

Some bad news to report: We lost the caucuses in Central (District 6) and Natchitotches (Not sure what district--but in North LA, our weakest spot).

Hoping this is an anomaly, we lost Natchitoches by a landslide.

 

[JWZguy]

The "someone else" was a kitchen-sink mixture. Former supporters of Santorum, Gingrich, Bachmann, and Perry. It was a strong group, trust me.

Some bad news to report: We lost the caucuses in Central (District 6) and Natchitotches (Not sure what district--but in North LA, our weakest spot).

Hoping this is an anomaly, we lost Natchitoches by a landslide.

By how much? What are the votes??

 

[The Magic Hoof]

Oh shit, we lost at the Greenwell Springs Rd one? Damnit, that's what I've been waiting on. BUT! I hear we need to lose by 76 to lose district 6. What are the official numbers?

 

[sailingaway]

thanks for the news. Bad or not, it is part of the picture.

 

[The Magic Hoof]

Can you possibly get some numbers? I saw mostly older folk in Central/Greenwell Springs so I was kinda worried

 

[Darguth]

I was just at a celebratory after-caucus-party in New Orleans and I got the vote count for Metairie (Eastbank, CD2) : Ron Paul 216, Mitt Romney 87.

I also posted my own results from the caucus in Gretna (West Bank)
CD2: Ron Paul 66, Mitt Romney 33 (not counting split tickets, where we had a strong showing)
CD1: Ron Paul 6, Mitt Romney 4

From what I've heard we've definitely won CD1 and CD2.

 

[Shotdown1027]

Official numbers from Natchitotches--bad loss.

Natchitoches:
#3 - 104
#7 - 15


Central: Greenwell Springs location

Slate 7: 61
Slate 3: 109
Slate 5: 20+ something

If those numbers hold, we won District 6. I'm hearing Districts 1 and 2 were landslides for us. North LA is in doubt.

 

[The Magic Hoof]

Was any other caucus location for district 6? If not that means we won by 26 I think.

 

[Darguth]

Was any other caucus location for district 6? If not that means we won by 48 I think.

There were 30 caucus locations in LA today for 6 CDs. So given that CD6 is in the northern, less-populated region of the state I'd assume it would have at least like 5-6 locations spread around. You can find a list of the caucus locations here, but I don't have the energy to cross-reference which belong to CD6

http://lagop.com/2012/03/2012-caucus-locations/

 

[ross11988]

Just got a text from a friend who's been interning in the baton rouge office the past 3 months saying we won the state.

 

[sailingaway]

Just got a text from a friend who's been interning in the baton rouge office the past 3 months saying we won the state.

I hope that isn't just good feeling......

 

[The Magic Hoof]

District 6:

Romney: 309
Paul: 335

We're ahead by 26 thankfully. Not sure which other locations were in our district.

 

[Lightweis]

Our first state win???????

 

[Darguth]

Our first state win???????

Eh, as good as it looks I wouldn't go that far yet because NOTHING IS OFFICIAL until the State Convention. Right now we're just getting into a position to sweep that.

 

[specsaregood]

Our first state win???????

Nope. I don't think anybody is disputing that we already won MN.

 

[sailingaway]

Plus unless I am following this wrong, the indications so far just show three of six districts. If we lose the rest, that sounds like a tie with party hacks making the tie breaking decisions. And remember those counties in Iowa that switched from Paul to Romney at midnight after all votes were in where the margin was narrow.

I'm not trying to be pessimistic, the news is good. I just don't want to get ahead of ourselves before all the information is in.

 

[The Magic Hoof]

WE WON LA!!!!!!!!

 

[The Magic Hoof]

WE HAVE OFFICIALLY WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[sailingaway]

Eh, as good as it looks I wouldn't go that far yet because NOTHING IS OFFICIAL until the State Convention. Right now we're just getting into a position to sweep that.

but I would think there would be an announcement of the caucus vote..... but maybe I'm being naive...