Anyone have a good link for a breakdown of the Republican Primary as it currently stands? Like, the states that have been voted on thus far, the states to come, how many delegates have been won by which candidate in which states, and the polling for the next round of states?
I thought Florida lost its winner-takes-all status for some reason? confused
I thought so too. As I understood it, none of the primaries before Mar. 1st were allowed to be winner-take-all. But that delegate page says “The Republican Party penalized Florida for holding its primary in January by taking away half of its delegates. The 50 delegates go to the candidate with the highest total vote statewide.”
So I guess there’s something here I don’t understand.
Miramon
1985
Santorum? No way. Santorum? Are you kidding me, Minnesota? Missouri, Colorado, meh, I can believe it, but Minnesota? I used to like Minnesota.
All the animals come out on election day – neocons, paleocons, teabaggers, birchers, grafters, chiselers, lobbyists, sick, venal. Some day a real rain will come and wash the scum off the streets. And then there will be no one left in politics.
Apparently Santorum was the only candidate doing anything at all in those states why everyone else focused on Nevada.
W_Wiley
1987
When I rub shit out it doesn’t mean any thing. As to what ever fools wasted their time on 2/7/12. Me I dig fat chicks.
It’s another week now where Romney has to veer to the right and campaign against Santorum, Gingrich and even Paul, instead of Obama.
I am happy that the far right that nearly steered our country into default is now exerting its influence in the Republican primaries. It seems only just.
See this article, found via this. Relevant quote:
Some people just suck at political forecasting.
To be fair, who can predict the insanity that the Republican Primaries have become?
Do you really want Wiley to explain his masturbatory habits to you in greater detail?
Technically, you could still be correct …Santorum didn’t actually pick up any committed delegates last night:
The victories, however, are somewhat informal. Missouri will host a separate caucus next month to allocate its delegates, and the Minnesota and Colorado caucus results are non-binding.
So it’s at least theoretically possible that all the delegates from Missouri, Minnesota, and Colorado end up voting to nominate someone else (though of course highly unlikely.)
The “informal” nature does explain why the media didn’t play up these elections more before the day, though. (Normally I would have expected more ROMNEY SCORES IN FL BUT FACES STRUGGLE IN MO headlines.)
jeffd
1995
Actually that’s almost always what happens. Assuming these states work the same way Wa did in 2008, what were actually chosen wasn’t a candidate, but delegates to a county level convention that will pick delegates to another convention that will pick delegates to the national convention.
Now in theory the delegates that are chosen at each level are committed to a particular candidate. The reality is that by the time the national delegates are chosen there’s already a de-facto nominee, and he gets all the delegates.
Caucuses are weird. You have to really want to go to them, and they take up a lot of time. You also can’t go to them as an independent. Minnesota republicans have veered pretty far right in the last couple of years. I need to check on turnout though.
Santorum definitely wasn’t the only one here in the last few weeks.
Edit: looks like ~50K people caucused for the Republicans yesterday statewide.
Minnesota goes precinct->State Senate District -> state for these sorts of things. The DFL has a weird thing where the vote for president at the precinct caucus is binding for national delegates that I’ve never entirely understood (I don’t want to be a national delegate), but I don’t know that the Republican party has a similar thing.
Scuzz
1998
I heard Paul on the radio this morning claiming that when all is done he will end up with Minnesota.
Interestingly, turnout is down in the primaries:
In Colorado, where Romney campaigned heavily, turnout was down about 7% from 2008, according to data compiled by MSNBC’s First Read. In Minnesota, turnout was down by 24%. And in Missouri, which was a “beauty contest” primary with no impact on delegate allocation, voting was down 57%.
That does not bode well for Romney.
Scuzz
2000
Interestingly, turnout is down in the primaries:
Quote:
In Colorado, where Romney campaigned heavily, turnout was down about 7% from 2008, according to data compiled by MSNBC’s First Read. In Minnesota, turnout was down by 24%. And in Missouri, which was a “beauty contest” primary with no impact on delegate allocation, voting was down 57%.
That does not bode well for Romney.
Why would anyone go to the hassle of voting if their vote meant squat? So big deal if your vote starts a run on the caucus’s. I am not sure I would bother voting under a system that screwy.
