Maine - a successful caucus

[terryhamel]

With Maine's multi-day caucus and the GOP unbinding delegates to support a candidate until the State convention in May, it would seem the delegate results are difficult to know, but caucus attendees reported to the website www.ronpaulforums.com, that Ron Paul is leading! Since Ron Paul supporters are liberty oriented, they never go back to status quo establishment thinking and always advocate the message. While the other CFR candidates supporters have time to be converted, Maine is looking like sure win. Maine is an important state because it is winner take all.

Just like Nevada, the media is reporting Romney won, but the reports are based on straw poll results and not the delegates. The MSM has not and will not give Ron Paul any fair coverage, so it's important to remember a strategy that depends on favorable MSM coverage is a strategy that will fail. The solution is to bypass the media.

The three largest cities that cast the most delegates are Portland, Lewiston/Auburn and Bangor. Portland's caucus lasted 6 hours partly due to a paid Romney staffer yelling as people cast their ballots. The Romney staffer also circulated a list of 23 names that favored Ron Paul, but totalled 65 names instead of the 59 in attendance. Nearly a dozen ballots were thrown out when this was discovered, but eventually, they voted for delegates by their number on the ballot and agreed that any ballot with more than 59 names on it would be invalid. Although dirty tricks ensued, Ron Paul still prevailed with 30 of 59 delegates.

Portland - 30/59
Bangor - 12/43
Augusta City - 13/20?
Scarborouguh - 1/20. The only 17 year old delegate was a RP supporter from a 60+ year old crowd.
Belfast - 6/13. One will be swayed at the State convention.
Lincoln - 8/11
Lee - 5/6
Bucksport - 5/8. The Bucksport GOP Chair is a Ron Paul Supporter.
Albion - 4/7
Sidney - 3/11
Liberty - 2/5
Waldo - 2/4
Washburn - 2/3
Stockton Springs - 2/3
Denmark - 1/2
Northport - 1/2. The other will be converted.
Waterville - won, no numbers yet
Winslo - won, no numbers yet
Thompson Island - unknown
Orono - unknown
Kennebec County towns are rumored to do well.

One member on www.ronpaulforums.com, "RufusTDoofus", reports "I knew that I would most likely become a delegate simply by showing up. My wife and I were the only two people from our town to show up and by default we became the Chairperson and Secretary for our town. We're both delegates now. Our town can send up to 7 delegates to the State convention. My wife and I will be recruiting five other people to fill those open spots."

At the precinct chaired by "Gagonstudio", only 3 of 5 people showed up. 2 were RP supporters. As chairperson, he can appoint two more delegates if he moves quickly to counter the Maine GOP filling the slots.

[enrique]

I realize there are more caucuses today with probably the same result for Romney. However, his 'people' probably won't show up with the straw vote over. A great chance to pick up more delegates.

I thought somewhere it was stated that there are potentially 3000 delegates to the state convention. Will most of those not exist because many towns had no caucus or will they be seated by county/state chairs?

Obviously the potential for a defeat by the establishment forces within the party. Or have the Maine folks already planned that out? (My guess is yes with how well you orchestrated everything yesterday).

[All Seeing Eye]

bumping for positivity!

[123tim]

I realize there are more caucuses today with probably the same result for Romney. However, his 'people' probably won't show up with the straw vote over. A great chance to pick up more delegates.

I thought somewhere it was stated that there are potentially 3000 delegates to the state convention. Will most of those not exist because many towns had no caucus or will they be seated by county/state chairs?

Obviously the potential for a defeat by the establishment forces within the party. Or have the Maine folks already planned that out? (My guess is yes with how well you orchestrated everything yesterday).

I think that Romney supporters will be out in full force today. I'll bet that Romney supporters (and McCain supporters) were getting automated phone calls and emails all night long. Don't forget that everyone is in this to win. Wouldn't you be sending out the troops after reading the posts on this forum?

Ron Paul supporters in Maine - Please redouble your efforts to get out today in places where you still have a Caucus. We need you!
We appreciate everything that you've done. Thank you for your hard work.

[freedom-maniac]

What's the delegate count for the other guys? Hopefully the ones where we have less than half are torn between the McRomnees.

[brandon]

Roofus T. Doofus is the GOP chair.

lol

[drpiotrowski]

With Maine's multi-day caucus and the GOP unbinding delegates to support a candidate until the State convention in May, it would seem the delegate results are difficult to know, but caucus attendees reported to the website www.ronpaulforums.com, that Ron Paul is leading! Since Ron Paul supporters are liberty oriented, they never go back to status quo establishment thinking and always advocate the message. While the other CFR candidates supporters have time to be converted, Maine is looking like sure win. Maine is an important state because it is winner take all.

Just like Nevada, the media is reporting Romney won, but the reports are based on straw poll results and not the delegates. The MSM has not and will not give Ron Paul any fair coverage, so it's important to remember a strategy that depends on favorable MSM coverage is a strategy that will fail. The solution is to bypass the media.

The three largest cities that cast the most delegates are Portland, Lewiston/Auburn and Bangor. Portland's caucus lasted 6 hours partly due to a paid Romney staffer yelling as people cast their ballots. The Romney staffer also circulated a list of 23 names that favored Ron Paul, but totalled 65 names instead of the 59 in attendance. Nearly a dozen ballots were thrown out when this was discovered, but eventually, they voted for delegates by their number on the ballot and agreed that any ballot with more than 59 names on it would be invalid. Although dirty tricks ensued, Ron Paul still prevailed with 30 of 59 delegates.

Portland - 30/59
Bangor - 12/43
Augusta City - 13/20?
Scarborouguh - 1/20. The only 17 year old delegate was a RP supporter from a 60+ year old crowd.
Belfast - 6/13. One will be swayed at the State convention.
Lincoln - 8/11
Lee - 5/6
Bucksport - 5/8. The Bucksport GOP Chair is a Ron Paul Supporter.
Albion - 4/7
Sidney - 3/11
Liberty - 2/5
Waldo - 2/4
Washburn - 2/3
Stockton Springs - 2/3
Denmark - 1/2
Northport - 1/2. The other will be converted.
Waterville - won, no numbers yet
Winslo - won, no numbers yet
Thompson Island - unknown
Orono - unknown
Kennebec County towns are rumored to do well.

One member on www.ronpaulforums.com, "RufusTDoofus", reports "I knew that I would most likely become a delegate simply by showing up. My wife and I were the only two people from our town to show up and by default we became the Chairperson and Secretary for our town. We're both delegates now. Our town can send up to 7 delegates to the State convention. My wife and I will be recruiting five other people to fill those open spots."

At the precinct chaired by "Gagonstudio", only 3 of 5 people showed up. 2 were RP supporters. As chairperson, he can appoint two more delegates if he moves quickly to counter the Maine GOP filling the slots.

How did we figure out which delegates support who?

[Sarge]

terry and all,

Check out my comment on meeting on Sunday.

All might want to keep it quite for now. They are still trying to get additional delegates.

[mello]

Do you think that the Superbowl will help us or hurt us today?

[QWE]

So how many precincts are left to report besides the ones we know here? So far that's only 217 delegates headed to the state convention... that seems small...
although 97/217 is a good start.