Kentucky and Arkansas results

[MarcusI]

I've seen no thread yet, so I started one - can be merged if there is already one.

Kentucky 45% reporting:

Romney: 67%
Paul: 12%
Santorum: 9%
Gingrich: 6%

There is a 15% threshold for bound delegates in both states. Polls close in Arkansas at 8.30 ET as I get it.

 

[digitaldean]

Lets hope we can get 15.0% in at lease 1 of these 2.

 

[danielboon]

Romney
55,130


Paul
10,484

 

[LBennett76]

Who in Kentucky is voting for Romney? I would think Paul would have a better showing with his son being a Senator and all...

 

[MozoVote]

Rand Paul has been making local endorsements in Kentucky, but his father has not even campaigned there once this year, as far as I can remember.

 

[zHorns]

Who in Kentucky is voting for Romney? I would think Paul would have a better showing with his son being a Senator and all...

I voted for him.

Edit: I misread that... I voted for Paul. Haha.

 

[zHorns]

Rand Paul has been making local endorsements in Kentucky, but his father has not even campaigned there once this year, as far as I can remember.

Nope, no campaign organization or dollar spent here.

It's a closed primary and Kentucky is well known for good ole' boy Republican types.

 

[SWATH]

Here's all I know

 

[LBennett76]

You voted for Romney?

Edited to add: ahhhhh... But still Rand won and even Massie is doing pretty good. Did Romney do any campaigning there?

 

[digitaldean]

It seems like its 25% less people than 2008:

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#val=KY

 

[losinglife]

suprised paul isnt doing better in Kentucky....

 

[MozoVote]

Nah I'm not that surprised. Paul has been getting single digits to slightly over 10% in all the southeastern primaries. He hasn't campaigned in Kentucky. The only story here is the low turnout and that Romney is getting 2/3 of the vote while shadow-boxing the effectively empty campaigns.

 

[sailingaway]

You voted for Romney?

Edited to add: ahhhhh... But still Rand won and even Massie is doing pretty good. Did Romney do any campaigning there?

Rand spent money and time and didn't put out an email right before that was widely taken as his having dropped out by media.

I don't know Ron would have won, but I bet he'd have made the 15% threshold.

He still might, but it shouldn't be a 'maybe' imho.

All the KY papers I saw were running a story saying Ron and grinch and santa would still be on the ballot 'even though they had ended their campaign' yesterday and today.

 

[MarcusI]

Massie wins in a landslide:

9 of 20 Counties Reporting

Thomas MASSIE (REP)
46.85%

Alecia WEBB-EDGINGTON (REP)
21.60%
Gary MOORE (REP)
21.81%



http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/KY/38672/82554/en/summary.html

 

[Jeremy Tyler]

A lot of the local news here (in Kentucky) has been saying Dr. Paul dropped out. A lot of people I have seen said they didn't know he was still in. But nonetheless I got plenty of people to go out and vote today.

 

[skyorbit]

See this is what ticks me off about the campaign. If they'd have just spent a little money. Enough so that people know he's still in the race, they would have broke that 15% margin. The campaign should be spending money on these proportional states.

We had the same problem in SD last time. We got 17% -- 3 points shy of our 20% threshold. That's why this time we're just running our own campaign. Here in SD we're already polling well over the 20% threshold, but we have to make sure they turn out.

Tracy

 

[MarcusI]

See this is what ticks me off about the campaign. If they'd have just spent a little money. Enough so that people know he's still in the race, they would have broke that 15% margin. The campaign should be spending money on these proportional states.

We had the same problem in SD last time. We got 17% -- 3 points shy of our 20% threshold. That's why this time we're just running our own campaign. Here in SD we're already polling well over the 20% threshold, but we have to make sure they turn out.

Tracy

I'm afraid you're right - Paul has now 12.4% with 66.2% reporting, so its highly unlikely he will do the threshold in Kentucky

 

[MarcusI]

Best county in KY so far (still a lot coming in):

Breathitt County (100% reporting)


Mitt Romney 51%
Ron Paul 31%
Newt Gingrich 9%
Rick Santorum 7%

 

[skyorbit]

PS. Please donate to our SD Liberty Operation and send as many Ron Paul delegates to Tampa from SD as possible, so history doesn't repeat itself here.
http://southdakotaforliberty.com/

 

[RonRules]

Massie is winning this easily:
Alecia WEBB-EDGINGTON (REP) 23.12% 4,192
Gary MOORE (REP) 19.41% 3,520
Marc CAREY (REP) 1.97% 358
Walter Christian SCHUMM (REP) 6.34% 1,150
Brian D. OERTHER (REP) 0.60% 108
Thomas MASSIE (REP) 47.42% 8,598
Tom WURTZ (REP) 1.14% 206