Republican Virgin Islands Caucus results thread (11am-5pm ET)

[Mr. Morden]

The Virgin Islands caucuses today from 12-6pm local time (which is 11am-5pm ET).

https://www.facebook.com/VIRepublicanParty/posts/1055262691180083

CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/election/primaries/states/vi
NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/primaries/virgin-islands (note that they have the date wrong)
Virgin Islands Republican Party Twitter: https://twitter.com/VIGOP

To quote Erc from his delegates thread:

Delegate Allocation and Selection

Caucus attendees vote directly for delegate candidates on their ballots.  Each attendee gets six votes, and the top six vote-winners are duly elected.

Note that the ballot has 10 Carson delegates, 6 Cruz delegates, 3 Rubio delegates, 3 Trump delegates, and 20 Uncommitted delegates.  Trump, Rubio, and Kasich do not have full delegate slates.

So the only candidate who has a large enough slate to get a majority of the delegates here is Cruz.  A “win” for either Rubio or Trump would have to involve at least half of the delegates being Carson delegates or Uncommitted delegates.  Since Kasich has no delegate slate here whatsoever, a “win” for him would involve *all* of the delegates being Carson supporters or Uncommitted.

Anyway, post your commentary about this exciting contest in this thread.

[Mr. Morden]

Polls should be closed now.  Robert Yoon of CNN says in this tweet that results aren't expected for another two hours or so.  How can it take that long to count a couple of hundred votes?

[Mr. Morden]

What if Cruz (if he won) wins and then goes into the debate claiming "momentum" after his VI win? LOL

Well, Cruz is the only one that could technically "win" this that is in the race right now. The others didn't bother sending full delegate slates. The best Trump and Rubio could do is 50% of the delegate take. Kasich is automatically a loser.

50% of the delegate take could still be a win, if it was something like:

Trump 3
Cruz 1
Rubio 1
Uncommitted 1

[Mr. Morden]

24 minutes ago, Decision Desk HQ tweeted this:

https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/708070682433687552

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[Mr. Morden]

Here are the results from St. Thomas:



Nothing yet from St. Croix.

[Mr. Morden]

From DDHQ:

https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/708115006525583360

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Assume that was meant to say "tally" rather than "rally".

[Mr. Morden]

From Twitter, here's a shot of the counting of ballots:

[Mr. Morden]

#Uncommentum

Surely the strongest candidate in the Republican field this year.

[Mr. Morden]

I guess the counting took so long because the counters were still hungover from the "Pre-caucus wine and cheese event":

http://usvigop.org/pre-caucus-wine-cheese-event/?platform=hootsuite

[Mr. Morden]

https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/708152035418312704

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