Washington GOP Caucus Results

[otero1]

Caucus coverage - Join us for special online updates of the Washington caucuses on Saturday beginning at 1 p.m., Pacific.

http://www.king5.com/

Also check here: http://www.politico.com/

[surf]

Don't anticipate "aaccurate" results. We are electing delegates and there will be no "straw polls" taken.

I'm sure someone will post a count (Washington State HQ) of how we fare, and i'll link it if i find it. but count on all 3 delegates from my precinct to be in our camp.

there are about 180 precincts in my legislative district (a bit more than half without republican PCOs), 49 legislative districts in the state.

wish us luck, i need to shave and head to the caucus.

[otero1]

Good luck!

[tbrambo]

FREEDOM FOREVER!

[Myerz]

http://www.king5.com/

Also check here: http://www.politico.com/

No where on that page is Ron Paul even mentioned... nevermind the results.

[Sarge]

They are saying a huge turnout in WA.

A couple of roads are closed due to avalanches.

[link88]

I can only hope for positive results! Lets go Washington!!!

[Ron_Paul_For_Connecticut]

Where are the results? NY Times said results will come in by 4 pm EST. Right now it is 4:35 EST.

[Aphelion27]

I've heard

1st Huck

Tied 2nd RP/Romney

4th McCain

From 1 location in Clark County. Jemtegaard Middle School. He also says.. TONS of Dems were there (in another room at the school).

Keith

[hatefalseweight]

Online updates from Washington state caucuses

02:30 PM PST on Saturday, February 9, 2008

KING5.com staff and wire reports

2:30 p.m. NWCN reporter Wilson Chow sends in preliminary numbers from a straw poll conducted at Clark Co. GOP headquarters in Vancouver. The results are:

Huckabee: 33 votes, Paul: 28, McCain: 23, Romney: 16, Hunter: 3.

A caller from a Democratic caucus in Madison Park says particpants are favoring Obama.

2:25 p.m. : KING 5 reporter Linda Brill says Kentlake High School is "all over the map." She reports:

"We're talking to people who are for Mitt Romney – and who will try to be delegates for Mitt and who will not give up until the end. There's a lot of people in support of Huckabee and it seems those who are in support of McCain would pick Huckabee as a second choice. A small and dedicated group for Ron Paul. You just walk out of here and you don't know really what the consensus is - the only thing that is certain is the uncertainty – and the diversity of opinion."

[kirkblitz]

Damn You Huckabee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mokkan88]

No, good for Huck. The plan right now is anyone but McCain.

[kirkblitz]

how bout ron

[justatrey]

**** huge turnout. This has been our #1 enemy all along.

[polexi]

No, good for Huck. The plan right now is anyone but McCain.

Yep, I'm hoping he has a comeback and evens out the playing field.

[Sarge]

If it finishes like this this whole race is up in the air.

The people are at unrest. The GOP better get the clue quick. They are not going to have McCain shoved down our throats.

As they don't have enough problems take a look at this.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8398.html

[taotree]

I've heard
1st Huck
Tied 2nd RP/Romney
4th McCain
From 1 location in Clark County. Jemtegaard Middle School. He also says.. TONS of Dems were there (in another room at the school).
Keith

If you're referring to the straw poll they had, this is incorrect (I just came from there). I wrote it down as it was announced, it was:

32: Huckabee
22: Ron Paul
12: Romney and Mccain (tied for last with 12 each)

If you're referring to delegates, I think that would still not make any sense--I don't know how Romney could have gotten that many delegates with only 12 people in the room supporting him.

My wife and I will be delegates to the county since we were the only ones in our precinct there (they had maybe 10 precincts all in same room). Another friend will be as well... I think we'll have a good Ron Paul showing at the county at least from our caucus. Given the above numbers, I would expect to see almost no support for McCain from our caucus.

[Unspun]

For the particular caucus place Im at they said they had the largest turn out since 1952. Also, I volunteered to be precinct chairman, so I got to finalize all the paper work

Anyways, in my precinct 4 people showed up; 2 supporting McCain, 2 supporting Paul. We could elect 2 delegates to go to the district, and both the Paul supporters got elected because we were the only ones wanting to go to the county convention. The two McCain supporters signed up as alternates though.

"Elections are won by those who show up."

[Ex Post Facto]

http://www.king5.com/news/specials/p....a6cfcdeb.html

[seapilot]

McCain coming in last in a few states will look good for us too. Shows McCain is not a shoo in yet.

[RonPaulFTW08]

No where on that page is Ron Paul even mentioned... nevermind the results.

Yeah what a load of crap. The main page has video links to obama, clit, and mccaca only.

[goldstandard]

Link to politico Washington map?

[ceakins]

District 35
Precinct 216:

7 Romney
5 Ron Paul
3 McCain
1 Huck
6 Undecided

[LibertyBrews]

Why the hell are people voting for Mittens, are they idiots.

[libertythor]

Yeah what a load of crap. The main page has video links to obama, clit, and mccaca only.

LULZ Nice subtle humor. Imagine if they had Mierda Romney on there.

[morerocklesstalk]

LULZ Nice subtle humor. Imagine if they had Mierda Romney on there.

I also like Twit Romney.

[Jodi]

Why the hell are people voting for Mittens, are they idiots.

I guess the same reason we would vote for RP if he suspended.

[dirka]

I wonder if anyone tried to sneek a snook up Hillary's snatch!!

[Just Come Home]

Online updates from Washington state caucuses

02:30 PM PST on Saturday, February 9, 2008

KING5.com staff and wire reports

2:30 p.m. NWCN reporter Wilson Chow sends in preliminary numbers from a straw poll conducted at Clark Co. GOP headquarters in Vancouver. The results are:

Huckabee: 33 votes, Paul: 28, McCain: 23, Romney: 16, Hunter: 3.

A caller from a Democratic caucus in Madison Park says particpants are favoring Obama.

2:25 p.m. : KING 5 reporter Linda Brill says Kentlake High School is "all over the map." She reports:

"We're talking to people who are for Mitt Romney – and who will try to be delegates for Mitt and who will not give up until the end. There's a lot of people in support of Huckabee and it seems those who are in support of McCain would pick Huckabee as a second choice. A small and dedicated group for Ron Paul. You just walk out of here and you don't know really what the consensus is - the only thing that is certain is the uncertainty – and the diversity of opinion."

I was at this one. We would have taken the whole thing, except a handful of Romney supporters thought he had dropped out completely, and so they voted for Huckabee instead. Afterward, they realized that Romney was still in it and controlling his delegates, and they were kicking themselves for not voting for Romney.

Ah well...

One thing I learned - a lot of old people go to these things, and many of them don't actually have any principles other than they are generally "conservative." You know - the kind of conservative where if you have a good hair cut and believe that gay marraige is a horrible thing, then that's close enough. When it came to pick out the platform, there was a lot of people who were inconsistent.

The bottom line is that this would have been easy for Ron Paul people to absolutely dominate if they had shown up in larger numbers. I think Ron's email last night might have depressed turnout - but further than that, I think a lot of young people generally didn't show up in numbers that I thought they would.

It's true that an organized minority could absolutely take over.

[pcosmar]

Bump for links.