Ron Paul: Maine Caucus Results A Virtual Tie

PORTLAND, Maine -- Republican presidential contender Ron Paul says he wishes all the Maine caucuses would have met on Saturday.

The Maine GOP chairman declared rival Mitt Romney the victor in Maine even though several places in the state won't hold their caucuses until next weekend.

Paul is addressing his supporters in Maine and telling them not to be discouraged. He says the momentum behind his candidacy will continue and he's pledging not to go away. He also says -- in his words -- that the revolution continues.

The Texas congressman is calling the outcome a virtual tie, noting that he lost by a narrow margin and some caucuses weren't included in the count.

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Comments

[surfxsmith]

10:56 AM on 02/16/2012

I'm still waiting for the results of Waldo and Washington Counties. After that, may the best man win.

[revr]

12:33 AM on 02/16/2012

I love transparency. We can all see through the corrupt election fraud in Maine. Some say, it's no big deal. They are the same ones that are promoting new voter registration laws as a way to get rid of fraud in elections. Every American has the right to have their vote counted. If we start thinking that low populated states don't matter in the big picture we will be beginning the process of losing the vote entirely.

[lw1]

12:12 AM on 02/16/2012

Don't understand why you Ron Paul folk are taking this Maine situation so lightly? You should be screaming about the gop dirty tactics in Maine!

[surfxsmith]

11:00 AM on 02/16/2012

We aren't taking it lightly! Look at the news reports about voter fraud. And this issue is something that can affect Democrats too. Everyone who believes in justice and fairness should rant about this. Think of how long this has been going on. I want every vote to be counted no matter what political party a person is a member of---even if it means Ron Paul won't win. I'd rather have an honest presidential election.

[reciprocat]

05:07 AM on 02/17/2012

Y'all should be out there protesting.

[SeniorMoment]

08:00 PM on 02/14/2012

It makes common sense for Maine's caucus day to be weather forecast dependent, especially in farming and ranching or telecomputing miles from everyone else.. In the far Northern States some residents won't even leave their homes during the winter. They just buy all their winter food essentials bought and stored by teh first snowfall. They just in God for routine health care and survival inside their homes.. One of my mother's neighobors, an elderly couple, when she was living in South Dakota were like that. Most though just venture forth in winter snows if essential to do so.

What I would like to know is why Maine with its city sized state population thinks it vote makes a big enough differrence to be of further interest more than a day after being announced..

[Zane Wallace]

11:52 PM on 02/15/2012

F@#& you, and the horse you rode in on.

[revr]

12:20 AM on 02/16/2012

They are Americans and are entitled to voice their preference through the vote, that's why.

[Skeptikat]

01:15 PM on 02/14/2012

For all the Ron Paurrots who keep squawking that he would "leave abortion to the states":

Impossible. The WORDING of Roe v. Wade forbids the states from enacting their own legislation to deny access to abortion. The ONLY way abortion could be left to the states would be the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Ron Paul is well aware the next President will likely need to appoint a new justice, as 4 of them are in their 70's. Ginsburg is the oldest at 77, and has a moderate/liberal record. If she is replaced by a conservative justice, Roe will fall.

Ron Paul disingenuously claims to be a Constitutionalist. He cannot be so and still be anti-choice. Abortion was legal in all states at the time the Constitution was written. Therefore, none of the individual freedoms and protections therein can be construed to apply to the unborn. In Congress's rejection of the Equal Rights Amendment, it was made clear that all references to "man" and "men" refer to the collective "mankind" and therefore includes "women". It is not possible to bestow independent recognition of rights to ANY stage of a zygote, embryo or fetus without usurping the sovereign rights of a woman over her own body.

Habeas corpus translates literally as "you have the body", meaning you own your own body. This tenet dates back to 1215, to the Magna Carta.

A woman cannot have true personhood or freedom without absolute dominion over her own body

[reciprocat]

03:57 PM on 02/14/2012

Dude! You said it all when you got to your points about the Supreme Court.
Even if I loved just about everything about Paul, which I don't, the sheer thought of what needs to be done with the Court would make me still vote for Obama.

There are many reasons to vote Obama/Biden 2012, but if there is one that I can fall back on and say, "for this reason alone, nothing will change my vote" it is the SUPREME COURT.

btw, i'm diggin' the name... :)

[Skeptikat]

08:16 PM on 02/14/2012

Diggin' your nick, too. (((reciprocat)))

OBAMA 2012!! RAWRHISS!!

[Douglas Holmes II]

06:33 AM on 02/16/2012

He does wish to reverse Roe Vs. Wade.

He does wish to leave abortion to the states.

Glad you're listening.

[Skeptikat]

11:00 AM on 02/16/2012

Because he's a liar and hypocrite like his followers.

[Skeptikat]

11:15 AM on 02/16/2012

Glad you read my flawless explanation of why your hero is a pathetic liar.

[Rexter]

10:20 AM on 02/13/2012

This whole process of 'selecting' the GOP candidate is a joke. The GOP has already selected him.

[thegodlessgeneration]

05:14 PM on 02/13/2012

I don't think it's a joke. In terms of Ron Paul, yes, he has a slim-to-none chance of winning the nomination. But the overall goal seems to be reminding people of that pesky document called the Constitution and waking people up to how huge and intrusive the federal government has become.

[Skeptikat]

01:19 PM on 02/14/2012

Intrusive is trying to dictate what goes on past the gates of a woman's hoo-ha. Ron Paul is just about the most intrusive piece of ѕhіt on the planet.

[wethepeople58]

07:53 PM on 02/12/2012

Only 85% of the votes tallied? Romney didn't win....Bless their hearts...they fraudulently showed Romney as the winner. Ron Paul won Maine, Ron Paul won Maine, Ron Paul won Maine, Ron Paul won Maine! Yippie!

[Skeptikat]

03:39 AM on 02/13/2012

I thought you said you weren't a Ron Paul supporter...

[reciprocat]

04:55 AM on 02/13/2012

So now what ya gonna do?!
The opposition read your play book and beat you at your own game.
Ya got robbed
You're gonna continue to get robbed

You're chearing. Mitt is laughing.

You better hope Santorum and Newt ain't read your play book too.
Else you'll be cheering bigger losses too! Yippee!

[wethepeople58]

07:39 PM on 02/12/2012

Maine Caucuses are not closed yet dummies. Ron Paul wins the delegates. So what if the Media spins this, Ron Paul got Washington County, which would put him above Romney. Media hates Paul, and why not, because he's against the Fed Reserve Bankrupters who control the CFR who control the Media. Got spin???

[had410]

09:06 PM on 02/12/2012

The media has gone beyond spin, to outright deceit!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZDoLTb41bo&feature=youtu.be

[FastPlastic]

03:17 AM on 02/13/2012

Great video.

[nadohawk]

04:17 PM on 02/12/2012

Ron Paul. Give up already.

[Shirley Ogburn]

08:57 PM on 02/12/2012

That is what I say.

[Douglas Holmes II]

06:38 AM on 02/16/2012

That's funny, considering Newt and Santorum aren't on the ballot in all 50 states and nobody is speaking of their chance of winning.

[nadohawk]

12:47 PM on 02/16/2012

Actually they are...pretty much only Ron Paul fanatics online speak of Ron Paul having a snowball's chance in hell.

[manumoka]

04:10 PM on 02/12/2012

since it's sunday, i guess it's appropriate for the paul evangelicals to be out in great numbers, paraphrasing their manifestos (ya gotta love the lack of punctuation).

paulies like to see their guy as fiercely consistent, but he just votes his narrow self-interests like most of the other congressmen: he opposes mandates and subsidies for ethanol, which looks reasonable until you compare it to his opposition to bills which would eliminate accelerated depletion allowances and other extreme tax breaks for his oil buddies; and then he voted against giving less extreme tax breaks for alternative energy developers. and of course, he wants to drill, baby drill, wherever and whenever possible.

http://www.issues2000.org/2012/Ron_Paul_Energy_+_Oil.htm

[wethepeople58]

07:56 PM on 02/12/2012

Since it's Sunday, it's appropriate that Obama evangelicals are out in great numbers to discredit the winner of the Maine Straw Poll. Extreme is all you can say. Ron Paul would reduce the Deficit, bring home the troops, cut $1 Trillion from the Budget the First year, Bounce out Obamacare and it's ripped mandate, abolish the IRS and the Federal Reserve Bankrupters, restore sound Money, give us back the Gold standard....he's all we need to save our Country!

[EdCorner]

08:10 PM on 02/12/2012

Here hear !!

[Shirley Ogburn]

08:59 PM on 02/12/2012

Well, I have a bridge in NY that I want to sell you, if you think this is even remotely possible.

[MrSavage]

11:19 AM on 02/13/2012

"he opposes mandates and subsidies for ethanol, which looks reasonable until you compare it to his opposition to bills which would eliminate accelerate­d depletion allowances and other extreme tax breaks for his oil buddies; "

The only place I could find in your link that claimed this was one omnibus energy bill that contained a huge number of new and modified energy regulations, incentives to build one kind of car over another etc. Voting against it doesn't seem out of character or hypocritical.

As for "drill, baby drill" that's pretty sensible for someone who wants us to bring our troops home from around the world. Nothing is risk free but we KNOW that oil wars are bad.

[krist6804]

02:15 PM on 02/12/2012

Why bother funding caucus locations if they are not even important enough to count their votes? Is this a GOP Super Pac Caucus rule?

[Skeptikat]

08:54 AM on 02/16/2012

An official from the caucus can just ask for a tally from the bus driver who brought all the extra paid Ron Paul supporters to the event.

[krist6804]

09:06 AM on 02/16/2012

Third world Banana Repiblic politics.

[serialcoma]

02:10 PM on 02/12/2012

On CBS News' "Face the Nation," Paul also looked past the Republican primaries at the issue of electability and said that while he thought Mitt Romney could beat President Obama in the general election, Romney wasn't the only one.
"I think I could beat him, too," Paul said. "I think I have appealed to some of those Democrats that he doesn't have."


Is it possible that RP's campaign manager failed to mention that in order beat Obama he has to first beat the three other GOP clowndidates he's consistently lost to.....

[lunarsnare]

02:33 PM on 02/12/2012

He did not, because that depends on the delegate count and allocation when the convention rolls around.
At this point there does not appear to be any candidate emerging who appears to be able to get the min amount of needed delegates to secure the nomination outright.

[serialcoma]

02:38 PM on 02/12/2012

GOPers gaming their own system... election fraud and rigging are their specialties....

[manumoka]

04:04 PM on 02/12/2012

let's hope he runs as the libertarian candidate.

[serialcoma]

05:08 PM on 02/12/2012

I am always willing to support the continued fracturing of eth GOP.

[MyDogBarksFire]

01:36 PM on 02/12/2012

One last thing Michelle Obama ought not be worried about fat kids and worry about the ones the are getting skinnier under her husbands rule. Junk food and happy meals are cheap. Thats why kids are getting fat. She worried about the symptoms not the causes. We are all going broke and cant afford to feed our children healthy food!

[JohnFromCensornati]

02:03 PM on 02/12/2012

Are they getting skinny or are they getting fat?

[MyDogBarksFire]

02:57 PM on 02/12/2012

Both. The fat ones will last longer than the skinny ones though, so she should worry about the skinny ones first.

[buggeroffyou666]

07:11 PM on 02/12/2012

under her husbands rule....? When you lie you lie big. This isnt fox so try again.

[freedomsxm]

01:36 PM on 02/12/2012

How can you call Romney the winner and all the MAINE caucus and votes haven't been counted yet?

[ywcachieve]

01:45 PM on 02/12/2012

They are trying to 'fix' the nomination for Romney.

http://obamaachievements.org/list

[JohnFromCensornati]

02:07 PM on 02/12/2012

This is not an election. It's a GOP caucus. Anything goes.

BTW - The whole shebang is a handful of votes. How does a fraction of a handful overcome the current deficit? Spam doesn't count.

[ivorykeys87]

08:19 PM on 02/12/2012

We are only talking about less then a 200 vote difference. It is very likely this could be more then made up. If this were between Romney and anyone else, they would not have called a winner yet.

[Ramone2]

02:17 AM on 02/16/2012

Here is a link to a report that Ron Paul is already in the lead by 10 votes when corrections are made for other town caucuses which were held and not recorded or were recorded incorrectly:
http://www.ronpaul.com/2012-02-15/did-maine-gop-blatantly-cheat-ron-paul-out-of-a-victory/

[pedromvp1999]

01:49 PM on 02/12/2012

and this has what to do with Ron Paul and Mitt Romney in Maine?

[MyDogBarksFire]

01:51 PM on 02/12/2012

Im just sayin