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Maine GOP chairman says Mitt Romney wins caucuses
Bangor Daily News ^ | 2-11-2012 | Eric Russell

Posted on 02/11/2012 5:16:11 PM PST by BAW

PORTLAND, Maine — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney narrowly edged Texas Congressman Ron Paul in Maine’s nonbinding GOP presidential preference poll on Saturday, ending a string of defeats for the Republican front-runner.

According to unofficial results announced Saturday evening by Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster, Romney took 39 percent of votes during statewide caucuses held during the last few weeks. Paul finished second at 36 percent.

“It’s good news. I’m hopeful this ends Romney’s little slide,” Maine House Speaker Robert Nutting said shortly after the announcement. “Romney is the best candidate to beat President Obama in the fall.”

Peter Cianchette, the Maine chairman for the Romney campaign and a former candidate for governor, said his candidate received broad support across the state despite a strong push by Paul.

“This was clearly a win and I think Maine showed him tremendous support,” Cianchette said.

ch took only 6 percent.

(Excerpt) Read more at bangordailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: caucus; maine; romney
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To: JediJones
We don't pick our presidential candidates based on how they will perform in the northeast or on the west coast.

You apparently don't understand the post, and maybe the topic at large. The McFly comment is neither intelligent nor clever. And picking 2004 as an example of presidential selection is pointless as we had an unchallenged incumbent. Using the years 2000, 2008 or 1996 would have made more sense if you were interested in making a cogent argument.

Whether they have elected officials or not, every state, including northeast states have a Republican Party. Because these states are heavily populated, they have a substantial number of delegates. The same goes for California, which is similarly situated politically. Every elected official, at the local and state level for both statewide and federal positions wants to do as well as possible. Even if he doesn't win outright, he wants to make a respectable showing. The candidate at the top of the ticket usually has an effect on the under-ticket.

The delegates in those states DO pick candidates based in large part with how they will perform. So, yes, if you are in Maine, running for State Senate, and you think that you will get 5% more with Romney on top of the ticket instead of Gingrich, and you are a delegate or have influence on the delegate selection, you are that much more likely to support Romney. If you are a state party chair, and have a whole bunch of incumbents and challengers to consider, that effect gets multiplied.

For the record, I was actively politically as a teenager in Connecticut in '76, and I saw how much joy there was over Ford winning CT and my district at party hq, even though the party as a whole did not do so well in that election, and that our measly 8 electoral votes meant nothing to Ford, who lost to Carter.

I also knew as a State Rep candidate in 1996 that having Bob Dole at the top of the ticket was a HUGE liability to my difficult candidacy. In the end, he garnered 27% in my middle of the road for CT district. 27%! I did better than that, but not enough.

And of course, this kind of environment seeps into the thought processes of the folks in D.C. and New York who have influence at the upper levels. From the RNC's perspective, they don't want to be 100% locked out of a well-populated region like the NE as a party.

In short, delegates and party chairmen in northeastern states and California give extra weight to how a candidacy will affect them, as opposed to how he would do nationwide.
21 posted on 02/11/2012 6:57:32 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (May Mitt Romney be the Paul Tsongas of 2012.)
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Numbers USA Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Santorum & Johnson Drearier Than Others

Numbersusa 01/23/12

Santorum NOW gets an What A change.

22 posted on 02/11/2012 6:58:47 PM PST by anglian
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To: cripplecreek

I wouldn’t expect them to but this is the same Gingrich that was going to contest every state right? (that is excluding winner take all VA).


23 posted on 02/11/2012 7:17:55 PM PST by sick1 (Don't fear the freeper)
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To: Vigilanteman

If I have to hear one more “former head of the Governors association” or “GOP party chair” or “GOP caucus delegate” from some leftie state talk about how thrilled they are for their Rino Mitt...

I wanna hear what Newt and Rick have to say. Come on Sarah. Just endorse already.

I’m depressed tonight. Oh and all of my shows are being preempted for a tribute to a drug addict. Judge Jeanine knows nada about addiction. She keeps asking with all the “support” Whitney had, how could this have happened?

It happened because Whitney had a disease that killed her... and the people around her enabled so that she didn’t get into real recovery, which might have saved her life. She shoulda spent no less than a year in treatment..maybe two.


24 posted on 02/11/2012 7:33:07 PM PST by Mountain Mary ("Mush is not going to carry the day" Mark Levin 2/09/12)
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To: BAW; JediJones
romney dunce, Remedial Conservatism
25 posted on 02/11/2012 7:33:46 PM PST by FrankR (You are only enslaved to the extent of the entitlements you receive.)
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To: FrankR

Little Rickie needs to take that same class.


26 posted on 02/11/2012 7:38:22 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: BAW

RuPaul showed up with his glue-applied eyebrows and came within 3% of Slick Willard? Bad showing for Willard.


27 posted on 02/11/2012 8:03:43 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
Newtered Newt could benefit from learning what a real "conservative" actually is....


28 posted on 02/11/2012 8:12:05 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: FrankR
Too funny Frank!
29 posted on 02/11/2012 8:15:33 PM PST by The Citizen Soldier (America needs Gingrich in 2012 about as much as England needed Churchill in 1940!)
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To: RasterMaster

Unlike pious Ricky and his pro union pro welfare pro big government ways, Newt has called that the worst mistake of his life.

Anything else from the “old news” department. Wait, don’t bother. You bore me, and a lot of others too I think.


30 posted on 02/11/2012 8:17:11 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: C. Edmund Wright

No reason to “bother” folks with blinders on regarding his actions since leaving congress....Oh wait...next you’ll be telling us all what Newt said yesterday is considered “old news” too? He and many of his supporters are sounding more Romney-esque as each day passes.


31 posted on 02/11/2012 8:26:52 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: BAW

2008 out of less than 6000 votes Willie Mitty gets 51%

2012 out of less than 6000 votes Willie Mitty gets 39%


32 posted on 02/11/2012 8:30:44 PM PST by Tennessee Nana (Romney a Massachusetts moderate which is a liberal by Republican standards)
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To: RasterMaster

I realize this is a difficult concept for you, but I’ll post it to you in hopes it can reach more open and expansive minds.

Newt, nor his supporters, have ever claimed the purity mantle. Pious Rick does every time he opens his crooked little mouth and sneers. Thus, Rick and his supporters have brought upon themselves a much higher bar of purity.

Newt is what Newt is, and that includes a lot of things among which are a fabulous intellect and an ability to persuade casually and off the cuff and by using history and the Constitution and logic and who knows what else. It’s a talent that little Ricky does not have in his wildest fantasy. He just doesn’t.

You can go down your little shallow check box of plusses and minuses all you want, but talent matters and Rick is devoid of it, period.


33 posted on 02/11/2012 8:31:54 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: anglian
But Santorum's THE ONE! He's the Consistent Conservative!™ He is so principled, he would never change.

/s

34 posted on 02/11/2012 8:36:04 PM PST by newzjunkey (There's a sucker born every minute. Maybe 2016 will be better.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
Newt is what Newt is, and that includes a lot of things among which are a fabulous intellect and an ability to persuade casually and off the cuff and by using history and the Constitution and logic and who knows what else. It’s a talent that little Ricky does not have in his wildest fantasy. He just doesn’t.

Besides all that, Newt was elected and reelected ten times in his district and served 20 years (1979-1999).

Santorum is politically and intellectually small fry. He wasn't even able to be reelected on his turf and lost miserably with 41% to 59%.

After that stringing defeat, was what poor Rick to do - just run for president! *grin*

He never explained WHY he lost his Senate seat (K Street, lobbyist connections, huge earmarks, peddling influence in Penn)... Hey, Rick, you've got some explaining to do!

35 posted on 02/11/2012 8:47:28 PM PST by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: BAW

The more I watch the GOP contest the more I believe big surprises are soon the horizon. We the people are tired of a media, establishment, and government that are colluding for a candidate to represent them, rather than a candidate for us.


36 posted on 02/11/2012 9:00:42 PM PST by apoliticalone (Honest govt. that operates in the interest of US sovereignty and the people, not global $$$)
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To: Vigilanteman

Rick will field no delegates....there’s no path for him...consider the following:

He will field no dlegates in Ill. or TN, either.
He is not on the ballot in IN
He is not on the ballot in DC
He is not on the ballot in VA
He will not field any delegates in ND
He is not on the ballot in 20% of OH

He could not even try to compete in the first big state of FL, and has already said as much about CA and NY.

Here’s the bad news:..... delegates are going to be pledged; and no matter how much you beg, they aren’t going to be assigned to Rick Santorum later. ..., TN is the only one that assigns them later, anyway.

Rick CANNOT win the nomination. He CANNOT. There is no path to 1140+ delegates for him, period.


37 posted on 02/11/2012 9:14:34 PM PST by caww
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To: RasterMaster

http://www.newt.org/answers#GlobalWarming

Q: So why did Newt do the ad with Nancy Pelosi in 2007 calling for action to address climate change?

Newt does not believe there is a settled scientific conclusion about whether industrial development has dramatically contributed to a warming of the atmosphere.

Through his entire career, Newt has supported pro-market, pro-entrepreneur, innovative solutions to our environmental challenges, which he believes are superior to the liberal pro-bureaucracy, pro-tax, pro-regulation approach to the environment.

Newt believes that conservatives cannot be absent from the conversation about the environment and instead that conservatives must offer and explain why conservative solutions are better. Unfortunately, the attempt to get that message out through the ad with Nancy Pelosi failed. On November 8, 2011, Newt told FOX News’ Bret Baier that doing that commercial with Pelosi was “probably the dumbest single thing I’ve ever done”.

Newt will continue to oppose the Democrats’ destructive cap-and-trade and carbon tax proposals, continue to support expanded domestic oil and gas drilling, and continue to fight for a fundamental replacement of the job-killing Environmental Protection Agency with an Environmental Solutions Agency.


38 posted on 02/11/2012 9:14:34 PM PST by JediJones (Newt-er Romney in 2012!)
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To: RC one

So far, tonight at least, it hasn’t been reported hardly all except for the scrolls at the bottom because of the death of Whitney Houston.


39 posted on 02/11/2012 9:17:57 PM PST by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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All contributions are for the Current Quarter Expenses.


40 posted on 02/11/2012 9:35:24 PM PST by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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