Maine Caucuses

[© tweed]

Looks as if Kerry won Maine yesterday.  Big surprise.

Kerry 4,843 45%  
Dean 2,774 26% 0
Kucinich 1,581 15%
Edwards 916 9%
Clark 407 4%
Sharpton 23 0%

Why did Kucnich do so well though?

[zachman]

He has family in Maine and has campaigned there 7 times. Did he get any delegates?

[elcorazon]

Looks as if Kerry won Maine yesterday.  Big surprise.

Kerry 4,843 45%  
Dean 2,774 26% 0
Kucinich 1,581 15%
Edwards 916 9%
Clark 407 4%
Sharpton 23 0%

Why did Kucnich do so well though?

Are those final numbers?  That's not very many voters, is it? A little over 10,000.  Makes you wonder why Dean didn't make a big push there, just to win a state would have helped him remain in the race, gain any possible momentum he could get out of it, anyway.  Or are those numbers representative of something else?

[Beet]

Well of course a caucus is so different from a primary; and then it's not like the god-state Iowa that pretty much determines the winner-- or rather, gives the media something to buzz about, which then determines the winner. Hey, if super bowl halftime was the same night as the caucuses, Dean might have won New Hampshire!

[© tweed]

Are those final numbers?  That's not very many voters, is it? A little over 10,000.  Makes you wonder why Dean didn't make a big push there, just to win a state would have helped him remain in the race, gain any possible momentum he could get out of it, anyway.  Or are those numbers representative of something else?

I think the numbera are the numbers of caucus sites won.

[zachman]

I don't know much about the 1980 election, what was John Anderson's platform?

[© tweed]

I don't know much about the 1980 election, what was John Anderson's platform?

Anderson ran for president in 1980 originally as a Republican, as a moderate.  He was anti-Reagan because he felt that Reagan's conservativism would hurt America, and he was also anti-Carter.  Anderson ran as a protest candidate in 1980, from the center-right.

[Nym90]

Yeah, he was a liberal Republican, which at that time was not quite yet an endangered species.

[© tweed]

Yeah, he was a liberal Republican, which at that time was not quite yet an endangered species.

He was center-right.