AUGUSTA, Maine, Feb. 2, 2008
Romney Scores A Win In Maine GOP Caucus
Heavy Turnout Of Down-Easter Republicans Braves Sleet And Ice To Voice Their Preferences
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Republican presidential hopeful, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, runs in through a crowd of supporters at a campaign stop in Edina , Minn., Feb. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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Jay Hibbard, right, hands off a stack of Presidential Preference Survey ballots to Halsey Frank, left, as they tally the results, Feb. 2, 2008 during the Republican Presidential Caucus in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Joel Page)
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Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, had 53 percent of the vote with 47 percent of the towns holding caucuses reporting. John McCain trailed with 21 percent, Ron Paul was third with 19 percent, and Mike Huckabee had 5 percent. Undecided votes accounted for 2 percent.
“I think it’s a harbinger of what you’re going to see on Tuesday,” Romney said to reporters while campaigning in Minnesota. “It’s coming kind of late in the process but not really too late.”
The nonbinding votes, the first step toward electing 18 Maine delegates to the Republican National Convention, were taking place in public schools, Grange halls, fire stations and town halls across the state.
“You know that there’ve been seven contests prior to Maine. I won three. Senator McCain won three,” Romney said. “With this, that gives me the edge, four to three. I don’t weigh them all the same, of course. I’m really pleased nonetheless to have this victory and particularly in a setting where there’s been such a spirited debate among the different campaigns.”
Despite a sleet storm the night before that left much of the state coated with slush and ice Saturday morning, cars jammed the parking lot outside an Augusta elementary school where Kennebec County municipalities were caucusing.
Signs promoting the candidates were jabbed in snowbanks, and inside the school gym speeches were given on behalf of candidates as around 300 party members listened and occasionally broke into cheers.
Kim Pettengill, who has been a party activist for more than three decades, said Saturday's was the largest Kennebec County caucus turnout since 1980, the year Ronald Reagan won his first GOP nomination for president.
Party Executive Director Julie O'Brien said other counties reported similarly heavy turnouts.
Republican caucuses were being held in about 410 Maine municipalities, most on Saturday. A few dozen towns, especially in northern Maine's Aroostook County, held caucuses Friday, and a few more were set for Sunday and later this month.
The Maine Democrats hold their presidential preference votes at municipal caucuses on Feb. 10.
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See all 105 Commentsmitt would be the *** that bids one dollar higher than the last highest bidder.
- Posted by well-spoken at 08:10 PM : Feb 03, 2008
I"m glad I never shook hands with him.
Yet CBS still does not show Paul''s face as a candidate on the politics web page but will post Huckabee''s photo.
Corporate censorship.
Please, everybody stop basing your decisions on anecdotal statements and what the press is telling you.
This is really disgusting and scary. Check out this independent, well-know site: www.wikipedia.org No information can be posted without a reference which is linked to the original documents.
Start out by entering Mitt Romney. It is a complete laugher as to how absolutely more qualified this guy is compared to the any other candidate on EITHER side.
Everything he accomplished was on his own, starting out with a $75 a month apartment with his wife out of college. Everything he has touched has turned to gold.
The real perverse part is that he is really the only candidate for change. What he did for a living is to fix poorly performing companies. Talk about change ... that is exactly what Washington needs and EVERYONE wants.
His success is completely unbelievable. And for a quick explanation of his results, he took troubled companies and turned them around ... if you gave him a dollar of yours he gave you $2.13 back at the end of the year ... oh and he did this for 14 years straight.
You want change? .... hands down this is our guy ... and ALL of the politicians are absolutely scared of him ... he owes no favors, and he will change stuff for the better drastically.
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Posted by well-spoken at 06:20 PM : Feb 03, 2008
I''m right there with you. Romney is the only one not mainstream DC and I''m not worried about his underwear. Our country was founded on the belief that one can keep thier religous views out of running the country. Seperation of church and state is one of our core principles as Americans.
Huckabee supporters we need your help. We all agree that Mike and Mitt most closely align on right wing issues, and that McCain is an absolute disaster to the Republican party and to all citizens of the country.
The liberal press is doing everything they can to declare McCain the winner. For whatever reason, Mike has decided not to step down ... I don''t want to debate his motives.
But the fact of the matter is a vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain. The fabricated polls are a matter of selective statistics. Look at what happened in Maine today .... Romney projected at single digit percentages .... and then suprise, he wins 53%.
Polls are fabricated, but final results are real. Huckabee has now placed in 4th place on back to back states ... ME and FL.
He owes it to his supporters to bow out of the race.
HUCKABEE SUPPORTERS YOU HAVE TO ACT ON THE NUMBERS ... VOTE FOR ROMNEY ... OR HILLARY / OBAMA / McCAIN WILL BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT.
Clinton vs Romney = Romney
Obama vs Romney = Romney
Obama vs McCain = Obama
Clinton vs McCain = McCain
Ummmm...Ronald Reagan invented trickle down economics, remember? Did you get trickled on yet? I haven''t!
Mitt Romney is just another spoiled rich boy whom someone told him he had a brain. Look at the company''s he bought and sold. Do they even exist anymore?
He''s another line the elite''s pockets with a fast buck guy!!!
tell your brothers and sisters to stop murdering non-muslims
typical of radical retarded fascist nazi terrorislamic jihadist slavers and murders
barack hussein obama(D-KENYA)
"You are all my brothers and sisters," Mr Obama told crowds of excited residents who craned their necks to catch a glimpse of the senator.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5290844.stm
One of Obama Jr''s great grandfathers (several generations back), "Owiny" was said to be a powerful leader of the Luo tribe, which moved into Kenya some 400 years ago.
Sarah Obama, a devout Muslim, was quoted telling Obama Jr. "What your grandfather respected was strength. Discipline. This is also why he rejected the Christian religion, I think. For a brief time he converted [to Christianity], and even changed his name to Johnson. But he could not understand such ideas as mercy towards your enemies, or that this man Jesus could wash away a man''s sins. To your grandfather, this was a foolish sentiment, something to comfort women. And so he converted to Islam-he thought its practices conformed more closely to his beliefs."
http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan08/obama_lou%20tribe.htm
Kenya, Islam and Obama Hussein
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magic underwear commints are stupid. get real. i wear a thong, does that mean i am a ***???? oh, i bet you wear a thong!
non muslims of the world unite,,, fight against the tyranny of the fascist nazi terrorslam imperialist empire of the darkside,,,
I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist
By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this "Blair''s bombs" line did our propaganda work for us.
More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465570&in_page_id=1770
Bless the Beasts and Children
Fascist nazi terrorslam kills every man woman and child in the village again%u2026 typical mo for terrorslam%u2026
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Our Prophet commanded us to fight the kaafirs when we are able and to attack them in their homelands and to give them three choices before we enter their lands: either they become Muslim and be like us, sharing our rights and duties; or they pay the jizyah (poll tax) and feel themselves subdued; or they fight, in which case their wealth, women, children and homes become permissible as booty for the Muslims.
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the truth about fascist nazi terrorislam...
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What is wrong with the electorate? Has America been dumbed down so much that it is possible to be duped by a utter thug like McCain? Let me guess; McCain is being hailed because he ripped off the American taxpayer more than 1 trillion dollars to bail out his fellow crooks in the S&L scandal (Keating 5). Or do so many like McCain because of his lawlessness in sponsing a bill to give amnesty to 10s of millions of illegal aliens? Or do so many trust McCain''''s sterling character, seeing the way he committed adultery against his first wife? Wake up America, before we end up with another tyrannt bent on destroying the Constitution and our nation as a whole, just to usurp and abuse power for his own gain. If anyone represents what is wrong in Washington, it is certainly McCain. He is an utter arrogant thug that can be seen from 200 miles away, if Americans would only open their eyes half way.
what the top two phoneys think:
John McCain when asked if he saw any similarity between Alcohol Prohibition and the War on Drugs, he replied that there was no similarity at all.
Mitt Romney has stated we need to "reinstitute a campaign as powerful as ''Just Say No'' was."
William F. Buckley, Jr., longtime editor of The National Review and the individual regarded by many as the father of modern conservatism. "Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value," he wrote, "marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."
Republican economist Milton Friedman, a Nobel laureate, spoke consistently against Drug Prohibition until his death in 2006. Friedman wrote "As a nation, we have been destroying foreign countries because we cannot enforce our own laws. As a nation, we have been responsible for the murder of literally hundreds of thousands of people at home and abroad by fighting a war that should never have been started and can be won, if at all, only by converting the United States into a police state."
Ron Paul is a very notable Republican politician who says things like "I''ve always been very clear that the Drug War is a lot worse than the drugs themselves."
Romney is a flip-flopping lier. In 2002 he ran as a pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage candidate. Now that he''s trying to win over religious fanatics that''s changed.
He also said that his campaign has NO TIES whatsoever to lobbyists. He failed to mention that several of his top advisers are lobbyists!
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