Posted on 01/14/2011 11:08:07 AM PST by iowamark
Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus led after the first ballot in the race for chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Needing 85 votes among the 168 members to win, Priebus took 45 votes in the first round. Trailing Priebus after one round is Chairman Michael Steele with 44 votes, former RNC official Maria Cino with 32 votes, Michigan Committeeman Saul Anuzis with 24 votes, and former Missouri GOP Chairwoman Ann Wagner with 23 votes.
Several more ballots are expected before someone reaches the 85-vote threshold. Steele won the 2009 race after six rounds, defeating a five-candidate field that included Anuzis and then-Chairman Mike Duncan.
All eyes are now on Steele to see if his support begins to dwindle. In 2009, Duncan dropped out after three rounds after watching his vote total dwindle from 52 to 44. He had led after the first round and was tied with Steele after the second round.
The sense here is that if Steele did not finish in first place after the first ballot, he would have a difficult chance of winning. Still, much of the talk among members before this vote centered on whether Steele would leave the race when it became apparent he could not win...
Steele remarks: ‘... we’ve had a lot of noise, haven’t we Jan...’
[Who has been making the noise? Tea Party? lol.]
If Wagner were to throw her supporters to Priebus, and they supported him, he would be the next chairman of the RNC. Cino and Anuzis together could not defeat Priebus.
True Dat. But you know, the public thinks its getting old.As a matter of fact, the MSM is tanking because of what they do to Palin, whose popularity just keeps growing from it.
Reinse can take a lesson from that book.
Looks like he is within striking distance on the next ballot or the one after.Its close.
I bet that is what Cino’s people are saying.
how soon before Cino=Zero?
I know it’s hard for some Southerners, but there’s a helluvalot of difference between a Yankee and a Cheesehead.
I can hear the sound of RINO corks popping everywhere.
Starting round 6.
No others drop out.
So this one will probably go to round 7 or more.
what is the time between ballots? is it a set time?
Nobody “Throws votes” any more. The delegates vote as they will. Steele drops out, and his votes are blown to the wind.
I think they have 10 minutes to conflab. Originally, it was 20 minutes, but members asked for a shorter period.
On the plus side, he looks like actor Matthew Broderick, and I could see some very funny Ferris Bueller skits done by him that would, hopefully, help bring in many more young voters to the Republican Party-if the right people do some very smart skits. I’m very serious about this idea.
“”I know its hard for some Southerners, but theres a helluvalot of difference between a Yankee and a Cheesehead.””
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Southerners are wary of Republicans from Minnesota to Maine. The many years of being dominated by the far left in those states can mess up a Republican’s way of thinking.
conflab=confab
You are right about that.I can see the acting class now, LOL.
I bet he could hold his own on the various MSM pundit circuits.
Reince really doesn’t have much of a record on fundraising, all the other candidates have probably demonstrated greater strength in that area.
Well, it’s the news I guess.....what I know about it is Dearbornistan, and so forth....Muslims everywhere is the impression....
That’s the sound of Barbours slapping knees you’re hearing.
Thats a plus. I mean we have to expand the donorship to include a whole grass roots movement, in addition to dealing with the traditional blue blood elitist donors.It will be intersting if Reinse wins this. A bit of a change fom the abynormal,so to speak.
no more castles
no more early Crist endorsements
no more backroom Murky support.
THAT is what I want to see
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