National Presidential Caucus results are announced!

[nist7]

On December 7, 2007 in cities and small towns across the country, Democrat, Republican and "Open" Caucus groups formed independently online and Caucused face-to-face on National Caucus Day. The first-ever National Presidential Caucus is now history and the results are in.

....

On the Republican side, Ron Paul obliterated the field for the GOP generating the preference of 50% of GOP Caucuses. Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson follow, generating 33.3% and 16.6% of Republican Caucus preferences, respectively.

Among votes in Open Caucuses, Ron Paul wins with 62.5% of Open Caucus votes, followed by Barack Obama (18.75%), Fred Thompson (12.5%), and Hilary Clinton (6.25%).


http://www.nationalcaucus.com/120707_results_announcement

Let's repeat this feat next year!

[purepaloma]

This is an example of what it's going to be like on VOTING DAY !!!

[Sandra]

This is remarkable! The National Caucus was even endorsed by ABC! Will they announce the results?

[Bradley in DC]

or do those numbers not add up right? :confused:

[Vendico]

wow

[nist7]

or do those numbers not add up right? :confused:

I know......it's weird....I've left a comment on their blog........

[hellah10]

hmm whats this all mean lol

[TheNewYorker]

or do those numbers not add up right? :confused:

lol yeah, 112%.

Look, it was nice news that RP got 60%+ of the caucauses, but it's obvious now this news article is fake.

[Vendico]

bah

[Lucid American]

So . . . Hillary didn't get any votes?

Was this something that was hit by the meetup groups -- I don't recall seeing anything about these.

[Vendico]

they have a youtube video http://www.youtube.com/NationalCaucus

[JaylieWoW]

or do those numbers not add up right? :confused:

Freudian Slip because they all know deep down inside they really want RP to win? :D

The GOP # (62.5) matches the Open # (62.5) exactly. I think there might be a misprint?

[Mark Rushmore]

Freudian Slip because they all know deep down inside they really want RP to win? :D

The GOP # (62.5) matches the Open # (62.5) exactly. I think there might be a misprint?

Right, and meanwhile the Open numbers pretty much add up.

[Highstreet]

http://www.nationalcaucus.com/120707_results_announcement

Let's repeat this feat next year!

That's great.

Do they have stats on total number of voters in each category?

[conner_condor]

LOL they fixed it allready and are now .1% off. it is 99.9% now. LOL

[lasenorita]

I liked the RP signs in this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9hO5EucruY). :D

[Jodi]

I love it!!!!!!

[Arek]

Now it says 50% for ron paul in the gop caucuses and 62.5% in the open caucuses.

[nist7]

okay, they just answered. It was a typo.

Ron Paul got 50% of the GOP-only caucuses

[AlexMerced]

or do those numbers not add up right? :confused:

depends how they did the caucu, they just said preference, they could of all had to choose their top 3

[Perry]

Can someone please delineate further?


EDIT: Ok I get it. It's like a national straw poll put together over the web. We'll just call this another straw poll in the bucket.

[Sey.Naci]

or do those numbers not add up right? :confused:
The release was incorrectly quoted in the OP. Here it is:

"...On the Republican side, Ron Paul obliterated the field for the GOP generating the preference of 50% of GOP Caucuses. Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson follow, generating 33.3% and 16.6% of Republican Caucus preferences, respectively.

"Among votes in Open Caucuses, Ron Paul wins with 62.5% of Open Caucus votes, followed by Barack Obama (18.75%), Fred Thompson (12.5%), and Hilary Clinton (6.25%)..."

[Vendico]

read the blogs. The comments report some details.

[nist7]

depends how they did the caucu, they just said preference, they could of all had to choose their top 3

It was a typographical error.


Can someone please delineate further? I'm quite sure I'm not the only one a little flustered here.

Apparently, they had 6 GOP-only "mock" caucuses...and of those, 3 caucuses had Ron Paul as their top man.

I'm not sure if they will release raw vote counts.....let's hope they do.....

[nist7]

The release was incorrectly quoted in the OP. Here it is:

"...On the Republican side, Ron Paul obliterated the field for the GOP generating the preference of 50% of GOP Caucuses. Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson follow, generating 33.3% and 16.6% of Republican Caucus preferences, respectively.

"Among votes in Open Caucuses, Ron Paul wins with 62.5% of Open Caucus votes, followed by Barack Obama (18.75%), Fred Thompson (12.5%), and Hilary Clinton (6.25%)..."

They mis-typed the GOP-only caucuses. The Open caucus numbers are correct.

[Perry]

It was a typographical error.



Apparently, they had 6 GOP-only "mock" caucuses...and of those, 3 caucuses had Ron Paul as their top man.

I'm not sure if they will release raw vote counts.....let's hope they do.....

So basically it was like a national straw poll. At least I would say this resembles straw polls much more than an actual caucus.

[angrydragon]

It's still a win!

[Vendico]

http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/National_Presidential_Caucus_Announces_Results

[voisine]

So basically it was like a national straw poll. At least I would say this resembles straw polls much more than an actual caucus.

I think you'll find that since turnout is so low in primaries, they tend to be self selecting much like straw polls. The people who vote are the ones who care about the race. The primaries themselves will resemble the straw polls (the ones that weren't openly crooked anyway) more closely than it will resemble land line polls of "likely republican primary voters"

[literatim]

Bump.