Maine Saturday Open Thread

[truthhope]

according to bdn there is still 6 towns in hancock co. that have not received any votes and Castine doesnt vote until march 3rd. In my eyes this isnt over!

http://bangordailynews.com/2012/02/...ine-gop-presidential-nominee-preference-poll/

 

[carterm]

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Will attempt to confirm MT @rarohla: The latest official MEGOP town results double count Paris as South Paris. #mepolitics

that gives us four moor, depending on what south paris' actual results are hahaha

 

[Trigonx]

This victory in Washington County is giving us free press and its favorable.

 

[sailingaway]

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Will attempt to confirm MT @rarohla: The latest official MEGOP town results double count Paris as South Paris. #mepolitics

that gives us four moor, depending on what south paris' actual results are hahaha

look at the article I just posted. We aren't the only ones who think this is fishy. We may never find the results, but it is nice others are asking these questions.

 

[ironj221]

Well, it looks like the decision to count all the votes will be easy. Had Paul won they would have said no.

 

[parocks]

also, might have to reconfigure eastbrook totals:
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No specific numbers available yet out of Eastbrook, the other community that was caucusing today, but Paul won there, too

They made a lot of errors. They had a week to fix them, and hopefully they fixed them ok. Now we can go and if they are cheating, nows the time to say "gotcha" if we have any evidence of anything. I'm not saying there is any, they did make a lot of errors though. We've got New Portland in Somerset County as a ? Those towns in Somerset County might have to have a do-over, simply because someone in charge didn't wan't to count the votes for some reason. Delegate issues that the campaign knows about and is working on in Portland.

 

[parocks]

Well, it looks like the decision to count all the votes will be easy. Had Paul won they would have said no.

If we want to win, we still can. There are towns in the state that haven't voted. They still can. And there's Castine left on March 3.

If there are any more "errors" discovered, that could have an effect.

 

[sailingaway]

They made a lot of errors. They had a week to fix them, and hopefully they fixed them ok. Now we can go and if they are cheating, nows the time to say "gotcha" if we have any evidence of anything. I'm not saying there is any, they did make a lot of errors though. We've got New Portland in Somerset County as a ? Those towns in Somerset County might have to have a do-over, simply because someone in charge didn't wan't to count the votes for some reason. Delegate issues that the campaign knows about and is working on in Portland.

look at the article I posted. Apparently some towns were still left out and we aren't the only ones thinking it is strange Ron's vote in towns actually went DOWN. And more people were found to have voted in some, all of whose votes went to Romney.

 

[parocks]

according to bdn there is still 6 towns in hancock co. that have not received any votes and Castine doesnt vote until march 3rd. In my eyes this isnt over!

http://bangordailynews.com/2012/02/...ine-gop-presidential-nominee-preference-poll/

new caucuses can be added in towns that didn't vote, or perhaps in New Portland situations where there was a vote, but for some reason it disappeared or something.

 

[parocks]

They already said they can't do a recount because the slips of paper the voters were on have been thrown away.

I think that somebody is being overly technical with the word "recount". Asking the people with the information to send the information again is not technically a recount.

 

[The_Ruffneck]

according to bdn there is still 6 towns in hancock co. that have not received any votes and Castine doesnt vote until march 3rd. In my eyes this isnt over!

http://bangordailynews.com/2012/02/...ine-gop-presidential-nominee-preference-poll/

Why can't they just all vote on the same freaking day....yeesh!

 

[seawolf]

If the RP Forum wants to assign a few members to work on the few remaining Maine Town's that have not caucused yet that is great!!

However, the Campaign has already moved on and I just received an e-mail from Ron BEGGING for Phone from Home for their TOP PRIORITY STATES, Washington, North Dakota and Alaska.

Maine is now over and frankly the vast majority of us need to move on fast because their are 12 States holding Primaries and Caucus's in the next 17 days. Time is of the essence!!!!!

 

[JJ2]

new caucuses can be added in towns that didn't vote,

Haha, let's do it, then!

 

[Danjlion7]

Is anyone else confused or is it just me?

 

[sailingaway]

If the RP Forum wants to assign a few members to work on the few remaining Maine Town's that have not caucused yet that is great!!

However, the Campaign has already moved on and I just received an e-mail from Ron BEGGING for Phone from Home for their TOP PRIORITY STATES, Washington, North Dakota and Alaska.

Maine is now over and frankly the vast majority of us need to move on fast because their are 12 States holding Primaries and Caucus's in the next 17 days. Time is of the essence!!!!!

Yeah, I did some today, but not as much as I should have! He really needs help here, he doesn't have tons of money now or we'd be seeing TV ads.

 

[opinionatedfool]

Depending on which count you are using and if you include the unofficial second Hancock numbers we are either 60 (original count @194) or 105 (second count @239) votes behind. I wish we could round up enough errors to pull this off.

If it was the 137 count that's been floating around we won it by three.

 

[parocks]

We'd still be down by over 50 votes. What matters is getting huge turnout for Castine. It won't be easy but if we can get 200 people to show up and vote for Ron that would be enough for sure. Everyone in Maine should be working that area.

Or not. All this enthusiasm to win something the campaign doesn't care about, really, has got to be bugging them.

We could be getting another urgent message, this time to stop caring about Maine.

I would like to say go go go Castine, 24 hours ago I was saying that. But the college is on break. Again. Is it state law or town law that says that caucuses must be held on breaks.

I just checked Castine's vote in 2010 Governor. Went for Cutler. Not as bad as Blue Hill and Bar Harbor. The 2008 caucus results I have doesn't have Castine, because it was probably created before Castine votes. I guess the GOP in town just wants to make sure that the college students don't come snooping around their organization.

 

[kathy88]

I think it's time to move on. If Ron won the Maine total by a handful of votes, there would probably be more skullduggery in the counting everywhere else. He was after delegates and got them, and the grassroots wanted this win in Washington, and they got that.

Nope. That's what they want, hoping it will just go away. That's why it continues.

 

[sailingaway]

Or not. All this enthusiasm to win something the campaign doesn't care about, really, has got to be bugging them.

We could be getting another urgent message, this time to stop caring about Maine.

I would like to say go go go Castine, 24 hours ago I was saying that. But the college is on break. Again. Is it state law or town law that says that caucuses must be held on breaks.

I just checked Castine's vote in 2010 Governor. Went for Cutler. Not as bad as Blue Hill and Bar Harbor. The 2008 caucus results I have doesn't have Castine, because it was probably created before Castine votes. I guess the GOP in town just wants to make sure that the college students don't come snooping around their organization.

Actually, this specific GOP chair apparently has this big deal where he was trying to 'disenfranchise' college students so they couldn't vote where they went to school according to the papers and Brad's blog. I don't know much about it, but the 'break' thing actually fits right into that.

 

[parocks]

Depending on which count you are using and if you include the unofficial second Hancock numbers we are either 60 (original count @194) or 105 (second count @239) votes behind. I wish we could round up enough errors to pull this off.

Someone else has 115.

There no reason to talk about the original count. There were errors and they were corrected the way we wanted them to be corrected. No one has argued, yet, that there are errors on the 2nd go around.

Total plus Washington is one total. They said they'd count Washington. That's about -156. 239 - 83.
Total plus Washington plus everything else is another total. That's about 115, picked up from 2 hancocks and 1 Clinton.

Where's Danforth?