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

[J. J.]

MSNBC still hasn't called it for the Republicans, though they have McCain winning.

The surprise in LA is that Huckabee did not break the 50% mark.

[MasterJedi]

AP calls it for McCain, just heard it on Fox News. I guess he might get all 18 delegates as well but I'm not sure on that.

[bgwah]

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.

The Ron Paul supporters are sure it's taking so long because the GOP doesn't want anyone to Paul actually one, haha. The Huckabee camp is suspicious, too, apparently.

[Frodo]

Is Washington the first caucus state McCain ever won? 

[bgwah]

Is Washington the first caucus state McCain ever won? 

He hasn't won it yet.

I've read that the numbers we're seeing are the first preferences taken at the beginning of the caucuses, not the actual delegate counts. Ron Paul initially got third place in Clark County but ended up with the most delegates from that county, for example.

Either the state GOP is just being downright incompetent with its lack of information and slow numbers reporting, is pulling a New Mexico, or are just trying to make sure nobody realizes Ron Paul won Washington because they hate democracy.

Hmm, well, considering that the Washington GOP is incompetent, corrupt, and does indeed hate democracy, I would suspect that it is a mix of all three.

[Meeker]

Well now the state party is saying "Based on analysis, that's how it appears." (That being a McCain win.) "We didn't want to say it's a certainty, but we should have something near final numbers in the next couple of days." No one knows which districts and precincts still need to report, probably including the Republicans. So in other words "Uhh, we don't really know what's going on but were going to go ahead and say this. Maybe we're wrong, who knows LOL"

They say they'll have more results Monday afternoon.