Romney wins Maine Caucuses (less than 5,300 total votes)

CNN TV ^ | 02-11-2012 | Charlie Webster

[parksstp]

2,190 39% 1,996 36% 989 18% 349 6%

WTF? 5,300 people voted in a state? This is on the same level as the other states? Give me a break

[Raider Sam]

Maine does matter. They put in LePage, and he has been pretty good. As to Congress, Texas has sent KBH and Cornyn, on top of the Republican proponent of SOPA.

Plus, in the general, if we get Maine and New Hampshire, it can offset a loss in Iowa or New Mexico.

[COBOL2Java]

The Maine GOP should be totally embarrassed/ how much did that cost?

Wait 'til you see the VA GOP primary.

[parksstp]

What would be a rough row for Rick to hoe? Winning the primary? The General Election?

If it comes down to Santorum v Romney, he can win.

As for Santorum v Obama:

Santorum would carry every state John McCain carried, most likely by at least a point or 2 more than McCain. Even AZ, which people try to pretend is a battleground is still solidly Republican. He seems in good shape to carry MO by more than the 4,000 votes McCain carried.

Santorum would need to get 17,000 more conservative or independent votes in NC, something that is almost a virtual lock. IN is also being abandoned by the Democrats for 2012. Santorum also lives in VA and would at the very least draw more conservative voters than McCain did in Loudon and Northern Virginia, and the SW. Santorum would also easily win all the places Gingrich won in the FL primary, and is popular enough to where the I-4 corridor and Hispanics wouldn’t be hostile to whom (many people I know didn’t vote for him in the primary because they thought he would leave the race due to his daughter’s health).

OH will be very close, but Santorum has as good a shot as anyone else here. To win means getting a 200,000 vote cushion outside Cleveland to win the state.

All this equates to 266 votes. From there he would have to win one of the following battleground states (NH, PA, MI, WI, IA, NM, CO, NV)

Santorum has a chance in PA, but the Philadelphia machine will still be strong. However, at the least, he’ll run better than McCain did in 2008. NH is probably out. MI, WI, and even MN are possibilities. By winning in MN and IA, we know that Santorum can be viable in the midwest states.

But Santorum may have the best chance at winning CO. He has Tancredo’s backing. NM is a possibility. NV is probably too difficult because of the broken GOP factions.

What I see with Santorum is that the states he’s won are battleground states that if the GOP nominee wins, they have a 90% chance of winning the election.

[Chickensoup]

Not all precints reporting by any means.

[flyfire]

Looks like he would have won in Maine if it were just the two of them.

[RIghtwardHo]

The General. I’m not saying impossible, just not easy. The Good Lord knows I’ll be in his corner.

[Vigilanteman]

The electoral math, so far, still shows Santorum doing way better than Gingrich.

Seven reasons for Rick Santorum

1. Who has won the most states without the benefit of their own money, last election's organization or a billionaire casino sugar daddy?
   
2. Who is everybody's second choice when he isn't their first?
   
3. Who can get both the Romney people and the Gingrich people, who hate each other, to vote for him?
   
4. Who has the best record on immigration?
   
5. Who has the best plan for repealing ObamaCare? And is the only GOP candidate who didn't help write or approve legislation which helped spawn this fiasco?
   
6. Who has the best plan for expanding the American economy and strengthening American families?
   
7. Who is the closest thing we have to the "generic Republican" which polls show consistently beating Obama and is most likely to make the election about Obama's sorry record rather than about himself?

[napscoordinator]

Romney is keeping Santorum in to split the votes. Santorum has no money, no organization, and zero chance of beating Obama.

That is so ridiculous. I am sure that Romney loved getting his butt kicked in Colorado. Also you say this every time a front runner has attention. You swore that Bachmann, Cain, and Perry worked for Romney too and you were found to be DEAD WRONG. Now as far as your stupid money statement. He is getting a million a day from individual people and is close to 4 million and will have it by tomorrow morning. He had 3.5 million prior to Tuesday so money is not a problem right now so again you are DEAD WRONG. President Santorum will go down as one of the best presidents in history.

[sick1]

VA is an actual primary - with advertising and real delegates. What makes you think Ron Paul will even compete there? If he chooses to, what do you think would get him above 30%? VA is not really known to be a libertarian bastion. This election has had some surprises but I’ve yet to see any data that points to Paul running strong in VA.

[RedMDer]

All contributions are for the Current Quarter Expenses.

[ronnie raygun]

These people are showing up for the free eats

[hoosiermama]

Will they meet later when the snow is “managed”? Romney is severely conservative ya know.

[mainevet]

Saturday. I will not be voting for Romney in any election.