North Dakota

[neverseen]

Rick Santorum

3,136

37.9%


Ron Paul

2,424

29.3%

with 89.4% reporting...


CNN is reporting WAAAY different numbers than the Nebraska GOP at http://www.northdakotagop.org/caucus/ (above the map, map uses same as CNN).

CNN says only 77% reporting...

Where is that from?? edit... oh i see it now lol

 

[klamath]

No, it was the media. That fake CNN poll created the "surge" and the sheep jumped on the bandwagon.

Santorum campaigned in every stinking county in Iowa and was climbing in the polls before the Santorum surge stories. The news stories hit about the surge a landslide of people remembered that they shook his hand in their local town parish. "I liked him then but I thought he dildn't have a chance."
RP blew his surge by letting the media spin get ahead of him on the newsletters and there was no excuse for that as anyone with the least bit of political background would have know the attacks would come.

 

[rightcoast]

How many times did Rick and Mitt go to a state for a day, and then return home for 3 or 4 days at a time? Get back to me when you figure out the answer.

Mitt Romney is spending the first night in his house in 9 weeks tonight. Santorum spent 3 weeks on a bus in Iowa before staying in a room.

The answer sucks, but there is the answer.

 

[sailingaway]

I truly believe the media and the other candidates ignore Ron Paul because they simply don't perceive him to be a threat, not because he is a threat. We're in a bubble that doesn't fit with reality. The masses are asses and sadly guys like the other three stooges appeal to them.

Then why does Ron poll best head to head against Obama?

 

[Ryan_G]

Is it possible the votes in fargo were split up into the peoples actual precincts, and those votes still need to be added to the actual precinct counts?

 

[muzzled dogg]

nebraska gop?

 

[seyferjm]

did christmas with ron paul do anything but make phone calls?

Door to door, which is what did most of the time.

 

[bobburn]

Sorry North Dakota

 

[carterm]

Is it possible the votes in fargo were split up into the peoples actual precincts, and those votes still need to be added to the actual precinct counts?

possible...we're down to 700

 

[mickey mouse joy division]

Then why does Ron poll best head to head against Obama?

Why'd George W. Bush get two terms? This country's full of morons.

 

[sailingaway]

Why'd George W. Bush get two terms? This country's full of morons.

They aren't morons for voting for Ron against Obama. When you take out the party requirements, Ron does best.

So it doesn't fit the 'country is morons' theme.

 

[Matthew Holder]

Not to add to conspiracy theories or anything but how does this make any sense
ND Website: 89.4% - 8,283 votes in
AP: 62.7% - 9,957 votes in
CNN: 77% - 9,957 votes in

 

[CTRattlesnake]

Not to add to conspiracy theories or anything but how does this make any sense
ND Website: 89.4% - 8,283 votes in
AP: 62.7% - 9,957 votes in
CNN: 77% - 9,957 votes in

wow

 

[rightcoast]

Then why does Ron poll best head to head against Obama?

There is a prevailing opinion in the media, from what I can tell, that not covering Paul helps him, and the more that people hear about his "extreme" views, and newsletter connections, and things like it, the worse he would do. I don't share the opinion, but I have a couple of fairly close friends in TV news (ABC). They say that's the talk around the water cooler, that not covering Paul is doing him a *favor*, because everything people hear, they dislike. Again, I don't agree, but it's not malicious. They do say the people they work with think he is irrelevant, and only projection of our wishes is what gets him his hard core support.

It's kind of absurd IMO, but they don't follow the reasons we support him as close as we do, I suppose. It's ignorance, in the dictionary sense.

 

[Rebel4Liberty]

America still NOT ready for Ron Paul and libertarianism, but a THEOCRAT For shame to those conditioned sheep!

 

[PaulSoHard]

North Dakota Public Service Commissioner Brian Kalk, a candidate for the U.S. House, predicted Paul would "win easily."

North Dakota GOP Chairman Stan Stein said about 4,000 ballots were printed up just for the Fargo site. In 2008, about 9,500 voters cast ballots, but because the weather is pleasant and the contest heated, Stein said he wouldn't be surprised if as many as 12,000 voters turned out.

http://www.whig.com/story/17086841/paul-eyes-nd-caucuses-to-pick-up-a-state-victory

lol?

 

[CTRattlesnake]

http://www.whig.com/story/17086841/paul-eyes-nd-caucuses-to-pick-up-a-state-victory

so what the hell happened

 

[sailingaway]

Not to add to conspiracy theories or anything but how does this make any sense
ND Website: 89.4% - 8,283 votes in
AP: 62.7% - 9,957 votes in
CNN: 77% - 9,957 votes in

bad reporting isn't conspiracy theory, it is natural course of affairs.

But I don't know why the discrepency. It is odd.

 

[PaulSoHard]

so what the hell happened

your guess is as good as mine

 

[sailingaway]

There is a prevailing opinion in the media, from what I can tell, that not covering Paul helps him, and the more that people hear about his "extreme" views, and newsletter connections, and things like it, the worse he would do. I don't share the opinion, but I have a couple of fairly close friends in TV news (ABC). They say that's the talk around the water cooler, that not covering Paul is doing him a *favor*, because everything people hear, they dislike. Again, I don't agree, but it's not malicious. They do say the people they work with think he is irrelevant, and only projection of our wishes is what gets him his hard core support.

It's kind of absurd IMO, but they don't follow the reasons we support him as close as we do, I suppose. It's ignorance, in the dictionary sense.

that doesn't address why he beats Obama.