Feb. 9th primaries & caucuses--GOP results thread

[Meeker]

Washington State GOP is up to 83% in, and the numbers were unchanged. We're not going to know the final results on this one until tomorrow I suspect.

[Alcon]

Washington State GOP is up to 83% in, and the numbers were unchanged. We're not going to know the final results on this one until tomorrow I suspect.

Still says 78% to me on the WAGOP site.

[Meeker]

Washington State GOP is up to 83% in, and the numbers were unchanged. We're not going to know the final results on this one until tomorrow I suspect.

Still says 78% to me on the WAGOP site.

They give the numbers out to CNN before they report their results on their own site.

A+ work guys!

[Gabu]

Washington State GOP is up to 83% in, and the numbers were unchanged. We're not going to know the final results on this one until tomorrow I suspect.

Still says 78% to me on the WAGOP site.

Ah, the WAGOP, so reliable in their incompetence.

[Meeker]

They're late on their update... again.

[Meeker]

4% more and still the percentages remain unchanged. It looks like McCain pulled out a narrow victory here.

[Alcon]

Anecdotal reports:

- Romney edges Huckabee in Cowlitz County; Paul beats McCain for a distant third
- Paul carries Spokane County pretty easily (?!)
- Huckabee edges out in Whitman County

[bgwah]

Here is how King County voted:

Mike Huckabee – 798 (19.02%)
John McCain – 1,321 (31.49%)
Ron Paul – 708 (16.88%)
Mitt Romney – 612 (14.59%)
Uncommitted – 733 (17.47%)
Others – 23 (0.55%)

http://www.kcgop.org/

[Mr. Morden]

It's interesting that we've narrowed down the field of candidates considerably, but are just now getting the first primary/caucus in which the winner takes < 30%.

[Meeker]

WTF is up with all these Uncommitted people? Are they disgruntled Romney supporters?

[Gabu]

It's interesting that we've narrowed down the field of candidates considerably, but are just now getting the first primary/caucus in which the winner takes < 30%.

And a related interesting fact is how everybody got in the double digits of percentages; nobody got left out of the party.  Even "uncommitted" got into the double digits.

[Aizen]

WTF is up with all these Uncommitted people? Are they disgruntled Romney supporters?

They should have just voted for Romney and made him win. It would have been amusing

[Alcon]

Other official-source results:

Clark [Vancouver]
Paul 224
Huckabee 211
Romney 184
McCain 151
Uncommitted 88

Franklin [Pasco]
Huckabee 46
Paul 28
Romney 23
McCain 20
Other/Undecided 1

[Meeker]

Here's a section of a blog post from a local newspaper writer who was at a Republican caucus:

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Definitely NOT the case at the Democratic caucus sites. When there are 120 people gathered in corner you can't really convince people to have a consensus - there's just too many of you. Everyone who wanted to gave a speech, but in the end very few (couldn't've been more than 4 at most) ended up actually switching in each precinct. The whole caucusing aspect of the caucus - smaller neighborhood groups who talk and convince each other - couldn't really happen today. It was basically just a primary only you had to show up for an hour or two to vote and listen to some people give speeches.

On the plus side for us, we have so much freakin' data, contact info and potential volunteers to use in November. I'm salivating just thinking about it.

[Meeker]

And the GOP won't be updating again tonight. That's a wrap folks!

[Gabu]

And the GOP won't be updating again tonight. That's a wrap folks!

They made it to 87% but are now just going to give up and come back later?

I swear, those guys just make me shake my head.

[Alcon]

Pierce County
McCain 189
Huckabee 186
Romney 143
Paul 142
Uncommitted 51

The sign-in sheet totals, where Huckabee actually beat McCain, were:

Huckabee 609
McCain 564
Paul/Romney (tie) 303
Uncommitted 167

But that's the way the county delegates crumble.

The rest I won't post unless they're interesting.

[Meeker]

Politico called it for McCain, FWIW.

[Alcon]

Unless they have access to county results I don't, not a great move.  Probably will end up correct, but still.

(King County is all in.)

[Harry Hayfield]

Can I ask why Washington is having a caucus tonight and a primary ten days later?

[Meeker]

Can I ask why Washington is having a caucus tonight and a primary ten days later?

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=70154.0

[Meeker]

The Chairman of the Republican Party issued a statement saying that McCain won, so I guess he knows something about what's left that we don't. He also said complete results may not be finished until Monday.

[minionofmidas]

The Chairman of the Republican Party issued a statement saying that McCain won, so I guess he knows something about what's left that we don't.

Yes. He knows who'll be counting.

[MasterJedi]

Well Huckabee won what I thought he would, though McCain kept it very close in Louisiana.

McCain hopefully will win the Washington Caucus and then he should to much better there later in the Washington Primary.

[MasterJedi]

Update on the last post, I was looking at cnn's website and they have called it for McCain. So  I guess his margin should hold up and he should get more delegates.