[napscoordinator]

What is it about that dang 3 percent that Romney beats Santorum by every state....yes Ohio was worse.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I misspoke earlier today, it turns out Alaska doesn’t have a 20% threshold, so Gingrich will get a couple of delegates in Alaska.

[campaignPete R-CT]

here’s a previous discussion for those who want endless details about the minutia.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2855852/posts

and the link to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner article that UPI mentions.
http://www.newsminer.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Romney+leads+Alaska+presidential+preference+poll%20&id=17763485&instance=alaska_news

[Eska]

Much of rural Alaska, the Repub Party never organized to allow participation. They concentrate on Urban Centers. Support for Santorum is greater in rural areas, same as in other parts of the country. Repubs in my community requested they be included, just wasn’t in the cards to be.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Palins state. Don’t leave that tidbit out

[Ackackadack]

I don’t have the specific stats in front of me to back it up, but speaking as a former Alaska resident, it might surprise a lot of people that Alaska quite likely has more Mormons per capita than any other state besides Utah. I don’t say that disparagingly; the ones I met were great people. Just offering additional input to the story at hand.

[Diogenesis]

Romney is a cheat, and NO DOUBT cheated in Alaska, too.

Ineligible RINO Backstabber:
"Thank Me!!!!! I cheat, I win."

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FLASHBACK:

The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++4 to 10 pts
in some polls, days prior to Election 2008.
So rather than helping the GOP, Romney and
TeamROMNEY and the RNME (Republican National Media Establishment)
decided …to attack Gov. Palin to throw Election2008.

Romney, and the Van der Sloot RNME RINOs for Obama in 2008

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

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The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

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"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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