The CO, MN & MO Results Thread

[cinyc]

Amusingly, Red Lake County currently has 13 votes spread over 11 precincts.

The final result is 25 votes in 21 precincts. That's almost a third of the total precincts for the entire state of Colorado.

There are 2917 Precincts in Colorado, per the Colorado GOP's website.  I'm not sure from where the AP got their 76 precincts.

[cinyc]

Oh wow, Romney is in 4th place with 11% in Dolores county, the one county that touches Utah that has reported. Romneyland doesn't seem to go east from Utah.

Romney won Eagle County (Vail) handily.  Seems like the type of upscale county that Romney should win.

[cinyc]

The results from Arapahoe County look odd to me.  With 67% in there are 189 reported votes.  In 2008, there were 8,901 votes.  Did they go with one big meeting site and two small ones, and if so, why?

Exactly what I'm not understanding

The only organization that has Arapahoe results is CNN.  It's probably the results of one or two precincts where they or another organization stationed reporters.   I doubt it's from one super-site, unless they had one out in the more rural parts of the county.  After all, the county stretches from Denver to about half way to Kansas.

[cinyc]

Is the turnout in Colorado really this low? What the hell is going on?

Only 18% of precincts are in.  And the most populated parts of the state haven't reported yet.  

[cinyc]

Is the vote coming in so slowly because they're throwing Santorum's votes out? That would help explain the horrible turnout too.

A-Bob already explained why the vote is supposedly coming in "so slowly".  People were voting until a few hours ago.  It took Iowa at least 5 hours to report close to everything.  And Minnesota results are still trickling in.  Colorado's reporting is actually fairly fast, compared to Nevada and probably even compared to Iowa.

There is no anti-Santorum conspiracy.  Given what is out, he will probably win this.  El Paso County will put him over the top.  Jefferson County won't be enough to counter it.  Weld and Larimer Counties will also likely go to him.

[cinyc]

Jefferson and Mesa counties could still be a big boost to Romney.

Santorum won Mesa County by 314 votes.

[cinyc]

Jefferson and Mesa counties could still be a big boost to Romney.

Santorum won Mesa County by 315 votes.

Ouch.  Where are you seeing this?

CO GOP site:
http://results.cologop.org/

[cinyc]

From the CO GOP website:

Statewide Results
2894 of 2917 Precincts Reporting (99%)

Candidate    Votes    %
Santorum     26,354    40.24%
Romney        22,855    34.90%
Perry                   52    0.08%
Paul                7,708    11.77%
Others                 57    0.09%
Huntsman            46    0.07%
Gingrich           8,390    12.81%
Bachman              27    0.04%
Total             65,489    100%

[cinyc]

What was the final turnout in both Minnesota and Colorado compared to 2008? Anyone know?

Absolutely dire.

Nonsense.

Colorado's 2012 vote was 94% of the 2008 vote.  Minnesota's 2012 results aren't all in, but they will likely be worse than that, probably somewhere in the mid 80s.