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Subscribe to RSSGEORGIA: The biggest pro-Romney SuperPAC is up on the air in Gingrich's home state, writes the Atlanta Journal Constitution. "The first flight of primary campaign commercials stations have anticipated for weeks hits the air today on four Atlanta TV stations and across the state as the Super PAC supporting Mitt Romney, Restore Our Future, has bought about $100,000 worth of air time through next Tuesday ... "strategists are still trying to figure out if it means former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich is in for a fight in his old home state on the scale of South Carolina and Florida -- where campaigns and Super PACs spent $30 million on primary advertising, most of it attack ads – and whether the Super PAC that has largely fueled his primary run, Winning Our Future, will strike back, and when."
MAINE: “Pressure is mounting on the Maine Republican Party to reconsider its weekend declaration that Mitt Romney won the state’s caucuses, at least until all votes have been counted,” the Bangor Daily News reports, adding, “[A] review of the town-by-town results released Saturday by the Maine GOP suggests that some communities that had caucused prior to Feb. 11 were not counted. Nearly all Waldo County towns held caucuses on Feb. 4 but those towns were blank in the results released by the state party. Additionally, Waterville held its caucuses ahead of time but were not included in the results.” In all, some 170 towns and cities didn’t have their votes recorded. Romney beat Paul by less than 200 votes.
TENNESSEE: Early voting starts today in Tennessee, which holds its primary on Super Tuesday, March 6.
TEXAS: "The chances of Texas voters having much influence in the Republican presidential race faded Tuesday after a panel of federal judges acknowledged the state’s deep divisions over political maps had made it nearly impossible to preserve an April primary," writes the AP.
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Oy. How embarrassing. I thought it was weird, when I checked the town by town results of the Republican caucus in Maine that there were so many zeroes, but I thought it just meant that Republicans in those towns travelled to cast their votes. Can't believe the results are only now just being scrutinized. This doesn't reflect well on the Maine Republican Party, for sure.
http://media.kjonline.com/documents/me_gop_caucus_results.pdf
It's just laughable, Amy. I've seen some stuff from both parties that I thought redefined the word dumb, but this debacle of a caucus by Maine Republicans might just take the cake.
It didn't take a rocket scientist to see it coming, either. I read a week ahead of time that voting (or caucusing, or whatever they call it) in some areas would go until March. And they were going to announce results in February? Right there, that ought to tell you this wasn't a water tight plan.
and the winner is ....( CAIN )!!!
This will fire up the Dr. Paul supporters!
I like your new avatar, phinephancy :)
Amy, it is Sunrise in the Bahamas! Took the picture off my balcony off the coast of the Turks and Cacaos. (Can you tell I am ready for a vacation!)
Looks peaceful. The Bahamas are too hot for me. I went there in my 20's and learned I really can't take the heat. Also, the people were surly.
Amy, sorry to hear you had a bad experience. We have always been luck there. (Our favorite places, though, are St. Maarten and Roatan, Honduras. They have the market cornered on friendliness)
Having spent three years trying to do little but destroy the Obama Presidency, it would appear that the GOP have forgotten how to organize anything that is not hate based. This is an alarming picture for their ability to run a Government if they succeed in November.
I was stunned, when over dinner last night, my staunch republican and politically active friend said he would not be checking a box for president in the upcoming election. He said it was his way of showing his disgust at the freak show that his party has become. Not even he believes that anyone of these republican candidates deserves an opportunity to be in the White House.
I was stunned, when over dinner last night, my staunch republican and politically active friend said he would not be checking a box for president in the upcoming election. He said it was his way of showing his disgust at the freak show that his party has become. Not even he believes that anyone of these republican candidates deserves an opportunity to be in the White House.
That's a very big "IF", ISTV.
There were enough sane voters in 2008 to elect Barack Obama, and I for one will do everything in my power to make sure we re-elect him in November.
The GOP is making it look easy...is it their strategy to look like fools to lull us into complacency?
It won't work. :)
Republican Elites are cheating for Romney! Maine was won by Ron Paul just like Rick Santorum won Iowa! What a clown show!!
President Obama 2012
Romney s campaign has a penchant for making the supposed GOP front runner look desperate.
It seems that the Republicans rant about voter fraud and voter repression stems from there own internal passion for such things. thy detest to much!!!
Romney's "severely conservative" gaffe has earned a "severely cynical" response from Democratic SuperPac AmericanLP airing in Michigan this week.
Just goes to show you that the GOP establishment has chosen Romney. First Iowa now Maine. I think it is pretty obvious what is going on when you consider Washington county was won by Ron Paul in 2008 and in the two counties that did not report vote counts, Romney supporters were responsible for calling the vote counts in. The votes were not called in because Romney did not win either of those two counties, pretty obvious really. These people should not only be ashamed of themselves they should be thrown in jail.
Actually there is you tube video of one of the precinct captains stating that he turned in vote totals that the state party are not reporting in the public totals. that is why the published tally shows rows of blanks in the vote counts.
They just didn't include tallies that would post Dr Paul winning.
The Republican nominating process is a fraud.