Caucus And Primary 2012 Results MAP: Colorado, Minnesota And Missouri Participate In The GOP Nomination Process

Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri jumped into the presidential nominating process, holding their first official GOP events on Tuesday.

The projected results are based off of the AP's vote count, the same data represented in the maps below. No network entrance or exit polls were conducted for these contests.

The results of Colorado and Minnesota's caucuses and Missouri's primary could influence public perceptions about the Republican candidates, but they will likely play little role in the actual selection of the GOP nominee. These states have traditionally done little to help predict a future presidential nominee. In addition, because these states moved up the dates of their contests by as much as a month, the results are non-binding. Colorado, for example, won't officially assign delegates to the Republican National Convention until April 14.

For real-time counts of votes in each state, check out the maps below.

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Map credits: Jay Boice, Aaron Bycoffe, Daniel Lee, Christian Rocha and Andrei Scheinkman

Comments

[maconmo]

08:24 AM on 08/08/2012

Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri - haven't you heard that Mitt Robmey has been annointed as the chosen one? Don't you know it is his turn?

[JonesArmyMom]

03:42 PM on 02/08/2012

I love it the people have spoken, even the Republicans have given up on their candidates. why bother to vote, they know there is no one on the ballot that they trust enough that they actually will vote for Obama to keep the circus at bay :-)

[Rebecca Botvinik]

03:32 PM on 02/08/2012

That is because Colorado is full of bible-thumping Christian fundamentalist organizations includeing "Focus on the Family" "Compassion International" and the "New Life Church".

RON PAUL 2012

[Sundalecat]

02:36 PM on 02/08/2012

Clown Romney is now saying his father spit nails out in straight line. I almost fell out of my seat on that one.

[wall1969]

12:24 PM on 02/08/2012

Santorum would be disastrous for anyone not buying into his extreme right wing idealogy. But what is troublesome, Romney has had to move so far to the right in order to compete in Republican primaries, he is equally extreme in his views. Romney may even become more extreme since Santorum is doing well. Where are the moderate Republicans I keep hearing about?

[oilfield]

12:11 PM on 02/08/2012

one thing in common with all of the votes....is there arent many of them.

[Greybeard67]

12:05 PM on 02/08/2012

It is only the extreme elements that vote in these republican shows. They are just the sideshow before the main event. Fun to watch but with no lasting impact. It is great to see all the right wing money being spent...that is fantastic for local economies. Keep it up and we will get our country back...and don't forget to enjoy the show.

[larmarch5]

11:10 AM on 02/08/2012

You know, I think they should just go ahead and put Barack Obama on these GOP ballots and we can settle this without even having to have a general election.

[ldjwood]

12:36 PM on 02/08/2012

I agree, just pick a "clown" from the republican party and let's get it over with!
Obama 2012

[Candide33]

11:06 AM on 02/08/2012

What was that... like 1-2% of the voters in each of those states?

The state with no delegates had the most show up to vote?

What kind of sorry election process is that?

[Olderandwiser55]

01:17 PM on 02/08/2012

Pretty sad. The caucus system is beyond sorry....I really can't understand why they exist. In Colorado, about 7% of registered republicans.

[Candide33]

06:07 PM on 02/08/2012

I don't understand all of the different ones, here in Louisiana we actually are still under Napoleonic code... our system is just bizarre.

[ADifferentViewpoint]

06:43 PM on 02/10/2012

A caucus system allows you to meet your neighbors and get a feel for how they really feel on issues, without the national media spoon-feeding you with their biased "polls" telling what they want you to know what your neighbors thinks.

The system is not sorry - we the voters are sorry.

[Paul Weikel]

11:04 AM on 02/08/2012

Facts on the Ground are this: Less than half (about two fifths) as many voters in various counties in Missouri voted (R) in this primary than 2008. Check your actual numbers in other states.....you will see the overall trend. What may look like a win is actually a loss in the GOP feild.

[larmarch5]

11:02 AM on 02/08/2012

Turnout is lower than in 2008 AGAIN. Colorado 2008 turnout was 70,229 on 2008 and 65,535 for 2012, a 7% drop. Minnesota was 62,858 in 2008 and 47,836 for 2012, a 24% decrease. And Missouri is less than half, but that is mostly because Rancid Peebus and those mighty mites at the RNC screwed up a bunch of the states' procedures. Added the burden of having their primary not count and then having to do some kind of caucus a month later. Yeah, folks, you really think you want these nitwits running the country?

[larmarch5]

10:56 AM on 02/08/2012

How was turnout? compared to 2008? Hey, HP, how about adding a TOTAL for 2012?

[Paul Weikel]

11:48 AM on 02/08/2012

Only compared Missouri turnout on a county by county basis. 5% seems to be the average overall for this primary; and of those who voted (R) it was less than half compared to 2008. In some places RS took only one seventh as many votes when compared to Obama. ( St Louis City being used for this statement) Other places they are evenly matched if you discount all other votes for other canidates and uncommitted votes. Missouri is still in the mix as a Bellweather state, while not predictive of a Nominee, Missouri still remains a predictive (discounting 2 out of 44 presidents the margin of Error for Missouri overall is .04%) indicator of whom will become the next president when it comes to actual Electiions.

[lisaman]

10:45 AM on 02/08/2012

I live in St. Louis, right in the middle of 2 polling places and I never saw anyone voting. Not to say they didn't because of course they did. When I went to vote for President Obama, the place was empty, like Santorum's head. I am going out on a limb and say that most of these voters were rural.

[ADifferentViewpoint]

06:46 PM on 02/10/2012

I was shocked to see Santorum win the county St. Louis is in. I would have expected Romney to have won this county.

[lisaman]

10:59 AM on 02/12/2012

I think the politics in those areas have changed but Dooley did still win so maybe not that much.

[timm]

10:25 AM on 02/08/2012

These state penalties are so ridiculous. At the point where so many states were moving their primaries up the party shouldv found some other way to slap them on the wrist instead of potentially damaging the whole race.

[Uberdog]

09:51 AM on 02/08/2012

It just keeps getting better and better! I am so glad my wife and I had cable installed, or we would be missing most of this clown circus!