Was this expected? Did Newt or Rick campaign there?
“Maine GOP chairman says Mitt Romney wins caucuses”
He can hold his head up high as he returns to the bath house.
Little slide? Try big slide. Anyway, nobody cares what Maine thinks.
RAAAAAAAGHHHH!!!
What a total collapse. Amazing.
“Maine House Speaker Robert Nutting said shortly after the announcement. “Romney is the best candidate to beat President Obama in the fall.”
Wow. Nothing like being a pre-programmed Romneybot. Thought? Thinking? Principles? BAH. Who needs that. Romney has nice hair and looks safe (if you don’t look too closely).
Beautiful state, but filled with crazy people. Maine is much like Minnesota where I live. I’ll trade Al Franken for Oly Snowe.
RuPaul showed up with his glue-applied eyebrows and came within 3% of Slick Willard? Bad showing for Willard.
2008 out of less than 6000 votes Willie Mitty gets 51%
2012 out of less than 6000 votes Willie Mitty gets 39%
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.
a few observations: First, Mitt barely won in his home region and underperformed in Maine by 13 points relative to the 2008 results. Ron Paul doubled his votes in 2012. This reveals Mitts weakness, not his strength. Second, when Maine released the outcome, the announcer mentioned that caucus sites could choose to report results or not and the party would not go back later and include those votes. This suggests the Maine party could control the precincts reporting and thus the final outcome, in Mittens favor. Third, how can only one-third of CPAC “party activists” participate in their own straw poll? The CPAC results did not jive with the perceived audience responses to the candidate’s speeches? Something is wrong there! Fourth, I was sickened to watch Fox News report these events. FNC was a cheerleader and overtly in the tank for Mittens. I got a strange feeling that we were witnessing a highly coordinated party establishment-media effort on behalf of Mittens.
who’s the liberal wreckless big spender now when the guy has to throw down money to win in this foreign country. :-)
“Hey, it’s Maine. Land of Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe.”
And corruption. Declaring a winner by disqualifying 10-20% of the caucus votes is slimy, even if the results are non-binding.
A liberal wins in the land of liberals. No shock there.
Anyone else notice when Romney wins a state, that Ron Paul also does well in that state?
So Maine's straw poll is almost as thrilled with Ron Paul. Not good news for Romney — a weak 39%, and only 3 points ahead of the symbol of libertarianism? And that's after the racist articles scandal. Maine might prefer David Duke over Romney! And that's a state that probably supported Zero with pompoms and tattoos.
Unless Romney didn't do much in Maine, good grief are people desperate to find an anti-Romney. Even I'm not that determined to vote against Mitt. If a straw poll means much, he must stink a skunk to people. Do babies scream when he looks at them?