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Title: Huckabee Challenges Washington Caucus Results
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Published: Feb 10, 2008
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Post Date: 2008-02-10 19:38:51 by robin
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Mike Huckabee is challenging the results of the Washington state Republican caucuses, his campaign announced Sunday, after accusing the state party chairman of calling the election for John McCain before all the votes were counted. The campaign will be pursuing a full investigation, including sending in lawyers to join those already on the scene in the state, officials told FOX News. Washington State Republican Party Chairman Luke Esser announced late Saturday that McCain had won the 2008 Republican caucuses in the state with 87.2 percent of precincts reporting. McCain had 25.5 percent over Huckabee’s 23.7 percent in that race. Esser issued a statement congratulating McCain on a “hard-fought win,” and Huckabee on a “strong second-place finish.” Ed Rollins, Huckabee campaign chairman, directly challenged Esser’s move, saying the count was incomplete because the other 12.8 percent of precincts could tip the scales since McCain was beating Huckabee by only a couple hundred votes. “The chairman showed very bad judgment in stopping the voting last night when announcing John McCain had won, when there was less than a 200-vote margin between the two candidates,” Rollins told FOX News in an exclusive interview. “You never announce a vote, in my 40 years of politics, I have never know anybody to announce a vote count before the vote is counted.” Rollins was quick to say that the campaign was not accusing the McCain camp of anything untoward, and the issue lies solely with Esser’s call. He added that campaign attorneys have attempted to contact Esser’s lawyers but had not yet received a return phone call.The final results came during the night after the race had been declared too close to call and Washington GOP election officials decided to call it a night. Esser said a final tally would not come until Monday. Speaking in a television interview earlier in the day, the former Arkansas governor indicated that he wasn’t ready to give up on the Washington state results but did not discuss specifics. “We’re looking at some legal issues. We’re not ready to concede that one,” Huckabee said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Washington state Republicans send 40 delegates to the national convention, this year being held in Minneapolis-St. Paul from Sept. 1-4. Like Louisiana, about half of the delegates are chosen by presidential primary, which will be held in Washington on Feb. 19. The remainder come from the caucus and convention process. Despite the outcome in Washington, Huckabee had a good showing on Saturday, winning the Kansas Republican caucuses by a landslide and edging out McCain in the Louisiana GOP presidential primary. Huckabee said even he was surprised by the results in Kansas, where he won all of the state’s 36 delegates to the convention, and Louisiana, where no delegates were awarded because no candidate reached the 50 percent threshold. He added that he feels strongly about his ability to pull out a win in Virginia and Maryland on Tuesday — during the Potomac Primaries, along with Washington, D.C. — after taking Louisiana and Kansas. “I think we’ll get a nice little bump out of what happened in Kansas,” Huckabee told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “If you look at where our votes are coming from, it’s clearly from the conservatives. I think that makes sense. I am the most conservative candidate left standing,” he later said. But Huckabee trails McCain badly in the delegate count, 719 to 234 before the Washington results are included. The eventual nominee needs to secure 1,191 delegates, and only about 1,000 are still in play. He also has only about 27 percent of the vote in recent Virginia polling compared to 55 percent for McCain. Karl Rove, former senior adviser to President Bush, said while McCain hasn’t won over conservatives yet, in the 2000 GOP primary race, Bush didn’t get more than two-thirds to three-quarters of the vote until a month after McCain, his principal opponent, stepped out of the race. “It is impossible for Governor Huckabee to win the nomination,” said Rove, a FOX News contributor. “He would have to win 83 percent of the delegates in the contest after Super Tuesday,” which Rove said can’t be done after a loss in Washington and a beauty contest in Louisiana. “I am not certain I’d take a lot of solace from yesterday. As we get into these big states with big primaries, I think we’ll see a consolidation around McCain,” Rove said. But unlike Mitt Romney, who dropped out of the GOP race on Thursday, Huckabee said he is not ready to hand over the nomination to McCain. He also said he isn’t moved by Rove’s prognostications. “Karl Rove has also maxed out personal contributions to John McCain so I’m not saying he doesn’t know what he’s talking about politically, but he’s not infallible either. And the point is, Karl is a supporter of John McCain,” Huckabee said while campaigning at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., which was founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell. “The Democrats haven’t settled their nominee either, so for us to suddenly act like we have to all step aside and have a coronation instead of an election, that’s the antithesis of everything Republicans are supposed to believe,” Huckabee told NBC. “We believe competition breeds excellence and the lack of it breeds mediocrity.” A look at exit polling from Louisiana shows that McCain remains very unpopular among Republicans who consider themselves very conservative. Speaking to “FOX News Sunday,” President Bush said McCain may have to work harder. “He is a conservative. Look, he is very strong on national defense. He is tough fiscally. He believes the tax cuts ought to be permanent. He is pro-life. His principles are sound and solid as far as I’m concerned,” Bush said. Huckabee said he, his campaign team and supporters are fired up by the record hits and contributions on his Web site, and he is going to continue to demonstrate differences between him and his opponent, particularly on issues like tax cuts and immigration. Huckabee acknowledged that he will vote for for the Republican nominee no matter who it is, rejected the notion that he’s on any short list to be McCain’s running mate and refused to give it consideration at this point. “I’m not going to be asked. I think it’s pretty evident that there would be a whole lot of people on the list long, long before me, and one of them would say ‘yes,”‘ Huckabee said. FOX News’ Serafin Gomez contributed to this report
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#1. To: Cynicom (#0)
ping
Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today! The Revolution will not be televised! The Huckster may be a preacher but he does know a shaft job when he feels it.
McCain must get rid of the other spoiler.
Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today! The Revolution will not be televised! At least Huck is up front.
100 years of war? Bombing Iran? That's sickening.
Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today! The Revolution will not be televised! Huck will remain in to make it appear as if the voters have a choice, as Obama will dance for Hillary until he takes his orchestrated swan dive.
I thought something fishy was going on last night when the vote count remained stuck at 37% for so long.
The vote percentages stayed the same in NH too, from 8% of the precincts reporting, up to 100%.
I didn't get a chance to read the Saturday newspaper until tonight, and it was a riot reading the Saturday morning AP article on the day's upcoming contests, the AP predicting they would be a "coronation" for McCain.
www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=5752#comments February 10th, 2008 at 2:44 pm Update on delegate count youdecide08.foxnews.com.....unt-tally/ Candidate Delegates Mike Huckabee 234 John McCain 719 Ron Paul 14 Mitt Romney 298 Total 1,265 McCain needs 1,191 to win the nomination. 1,191 - 719 = 472 McCAIN needs 472 more delegates by June to win the GOP nomination. I believe only VT and Washington, D.C. are the only contests remaining that are “winner take all.” 472 is alot of delegates to go. Huckabee and Paul are going to prevent McCAIN from getting those delegates. He didn’t win squat last night. I’m not giving up on a brokered convention until the clock his zero. “It ain’t over ’till it’s over.” Damn right, Yogi.
www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=5786 Just thought I would SHare this with you guys!! Trust me it is good news!!! By Savage206 | February 10, 2008 This is a compilation of two different email I have recieved from the Washington State Ron Paul campaign HQ. Her name is Molly and she has done a really good job helping to organize us here in Washington!! Ok here ya go: Hello everyone, By our very preliminary count from you reports it is looking like we have at least twice the delegates as the other candidates!! For this day and until the count shows otherwise I want you to congratulate yourselves for WINNING Washington State for Ron Paul!! I wish I could share every single story I have heard over the past few days and all the happy reports from Ron Paul enclaves in WA towns I have never even heard of! Please know this…the National Campaign is seeing these kind of successes all over the country…Every day that goes by we have new supporters and new contributers. I can’t believe I am saying this…I thought certainly I would sleep for 4 days once the 9th was over…but I am already so excited to prepare for our County Conventions!! The next few weeks are going to be very important…There were stories from almost every precinct about Huckabee and Romney voters changing their support to Ron Paul. Unfortunately some of the biggest threats to the Freedom Revolution can still come from within…our own perceptions…please read Ron’s letter again until you see the part that states he we are going to the National Convention! You know things have changed every day in this campaign with new information and new victories changing the course…now we have given him Washington and made the road to the Minneapolis a lot more golden!! I will update you all when we get more final results… You all did a wonderful job. Just wonderful. Thank you for all you do! Maureen McMahan Moore Washington State Coordinator Ron Paul 2008 This part was sent out yesterday!!! I got to count all of the ballots for district 43! Rode in the car with the person who had custody of the ballots to their office and another Paul supporter and I were there the whole time. Mike was actually entering the data into the spreadsheet while I watched one of their people open the envelopes. They were extremely fair and careful and even a couple of times caught a something that I nearly missed that ensured an extra Paul vote. I also caught a couple of near-misses that wound up being McCain votes, so we’re even. It was so amazing – I can’t tell you how amazing – to sign in every Paul supporter who was in line at my caucus and see everyone’s faces, and then one by one recognize everyone’s name on the sign-in sheets, and then see them win their delegate slots, and hear Paul’s name called out by these McCain supporting GOP guys in their own office. I almost choked up a couple of times! You guys did an amazing job! Also the Paul people did a much better job of filling in the forms completely – if they decide to throw out all the forms that don’t have a signature at the bottom, we’ll be in even better shape. District 43 PROVISIONAL results (not including two other small caucus locations, and these are NOT final results, subject to checking voter registrations and whether the forms were filled out correctly and such): Huckabee 17 delegates McCain 48 delegates Paul 62 delegates Romney 7 delegates Uncommited 11 delegates So don’t worry guys!!! The MSM is trying once again tohold us down by reporting false results!!! Ron Paul did take Washington!!!
www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=5752#comments #45 zooamerica Says: February 10th, 2008 at 11:12 am Now we need to tell the old media whores who really won. We have to force their hand. Don’t let them get away with false reporting. Do not be satisfied until they acknowledge Ron Paul’s victory in Washington. I personally think Ron’s campaign should issue a press release stating they won Washington state.
Romney has 300 to offer.
www.dailypaul.com/node/36607 RON PAUL WON WASHINGTON STATE Posted February 10th, 2008 by Graham Don't listen to the bullshit straw poll-It's Meaningless We won the most delegates. We know it The WSRP knows it (some of them might need to change their pants I'm making up a rumour that many of them shat themselves upon seeing the delegate totals and further defecated profusely in them upon realizing that they had elected our shadow delegates and it's too late to do anything about it). CNN knows it. But they are scared that if you come to know it the grassroots will experience a resurgence and rise from the ashes like a phoenix to lead this nation through the trying times ahead. Prove them Wrong Don't be scared be a delegate! Or organize something to help get the delegates the money and transportation they need to get to the next caucus.
www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=5766#more-5766 Washington State Caucus Talking Points (so far) By ArcBlatt | February 10, 2008 Hello everyone, I have already protested about this directly with the Washington Republican Party, but so that we can understand what is going on there, here are some talking points: 1. There are obvious differences between the Democratic and the Republican process. 1. County data is available for the Democratic Party. No such information is available for the Republican Party. 2. The Democratic count has been quick and thorough. The Republican count has been inefficient and unusually slow. 3. Approximately 33,300 voters participated during yesterday’s Democratic caucuses. Approximately 15,400 voters participated in the Republican caucuses. 4. As of this morning, all precincts are yet to be reported for both sides, but the Republican side is missing 13% of the precincts. The above information can only point to the following conclusions: 1. The Republican Party workers are incompetent. 2. The vote tally is being deliberately delayed to fit informal polling numbers. The differences between the two parties are so obvious, that the aforementioned talking points could be the tip of a very ugly iceberg. You be the judge. I hope that everyone has a great day.
www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=5752#comments #26 zooamerica Says: February 10th, 2008 at 9:10 am Just spoke with Bob Mathers of KOMO radio and he says that Mike Huckabee went on Meet the Press this morning and said he is NOT conceding Washington to McCain. Bob did not know why the state GOP announced McCain the winner with only 87% of the vote counted. Bob did not know why they suspended the election last night.
Exactly. It's was pre-ordained. That much was evident from the headlines over the last 4 years.
The MSM is a perfect crystal ball.
But what will that get us? Another party platform they won't live by? "They" will never allow Paul to win.
Pauls disinformation about a brokered convention was the first hint that he was taking a dive.
Exactly. That is who tells us what we are supposed to believe.
I'm starting to see shades of McClintock. That just saddens me as I thought he was different. His statements about being a party man, Well I still need to fill out my change of party registration form. Guess I'll do that tonight so it will go out in the mail tomorrow.
Yeah, no idea!
I'll bet he votes for McInsane.
wouldn't surprise me. Just like McClintock supported Arnold this last time. Look what happened to our state voting for "the man who could win"! Enough of that crap.
All good Republicans must vote for Juan. It's What Reagan Would Do®.
LOL! Soon as I mail that paperwork I will no longer be a good Republican.
Prolly illegal to try and register as an American????
Tell them that you are an illegal. Your paperwork will get processed faster.
I'm going Constitution Party. Maybe Ron will come home before it's all over. I'll stay independent but hang my hat with those that most reflect America first.
LOL No, you won't need any!
No, but the Amerikan Party has endorsed McInsane.
Maybe I will just "drop out", become homeless and be a parasite mooch on the social network????
Probably true. I've already been attending the central committee meetings. Have another one next Sat.
That's too en vogue.
Too much competition from Michael Jackson.
How do WE stop funding the Nanny Stater-quislings?
Anyone who comes up with the correct answer I'll vote for.
Show Me the Law
Mike Huckabee is a fundmentalist preacher, so he tries to follow literally Leviticus, which means it's an abomination to let the Washington Republican Party fuck him in the ass like this. Can I get an "Amen" from Brother Nathaniel and richard9151?
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.-T Jefferson
#2. To: robin (#0)
Ed Rollins, Huckabee campaign chairman, directly challenged Esser’s move, saying the count was incomplete because the other 12.8 percent of precincts could tip the scales since McCain was beating Huckabee by only a couple hundred votes.
#3. To: Cynicom (#2)
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.-T Jefferson
#4. To: robin (#1)
Huckabee acknowledged that he will vote for for the Republican nominee no matter who it is,
#5. To: Cynicom (#4)
Huckabee acknowledged that he will vote for for the Republican nominee no matter who it is,
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.-T Jefferson
#6. To: All (#4)
#7. To: robin (#0)
I've already said too much.
#8. To: MUDDOG (#7)
I thought something fishy was going on last night when the vote count remained stuck at 37% for so long.
You appear to be a major trouble maker...and I'm getting really pissed. - GoldiLox, 7/27/2006
#9. To: FormerLurker (#8)
I've already said too much.
#10. To: FormerLurker (#8)
#11. To: FormerLurker (#8)
#12. To: FormerLurker (#8)
#13. To: TwentyTwelve (#10)
I’m not giving up on a brokered convention until the clock his zero.
#14. To: FOH, Original_Intent (#8)
#15. To: FormerLurker (#8)
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#17. To: Cynicom (#6)
Huck will remain in to make it appear as if the voters have a choice, as Obama will dance for Hillary until he takes his orchestrated swan dive.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. -- Winnie the Pooh
#18. To: farmfriend (#17)
Exactly. It's was pre-ordained. That much was evident from the headlines over the last 4 years.
#19. To: TwentyTwelve (#10)
I’m not giving up on a brokered convention until the clock his zero.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. -- Winnie the Pooh
#20. To: farmfriend (#19)
But what will that get us? Another party platform they won't live by? "They" will never allow Paul to win.
#21. To: Cynicom (#18)
The MSM is a perfect crystal ball.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. -- Winnie the Pooh
#22. To: Cynicom (#20)
Pauls disinformation about a brokered convention was the first hint that he was taking a dive.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. -- Winnie the Pooh
#23. To: TwentyTwelve (#16)
Bob did not know why they suspended the election last night.
#24. To: farmfriend (#22)
#25. To: _______ (#24)
I'll bet he votes for McInsane.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. -- Winnie the Pooh
#26. To: farmfriend (#25)
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#27. To: _______ (#26)
All good Republicans must vote for Juan.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. -- Winnie the Pooh
#28. To: farmfriend (#27)
#29. To: farmfriend (#28)
Prolly illegal to try and register as an American????
#30. To: farmfriend (#27)
Mine goes in the mail tomorrow.
#31. To: TwentyTwelve (#29)
Tell them that you are an illegal. Your paperwork will get processed faster.
#32. To: Cynicom (#28)
Prolly illegal to try and register as an American????
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#34. To: TwentyTwelve, Cynicom (#29)
Tell them that you are an illegal. Your paperwork will get processed faster.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. -- Winnie the Pooh
#35. To: Cynicom (#33)
Maybe I will just "drop out", become homeless and be a parasite mooch on the social network????
#36. To: Cynicom, _______ (#33)
Maybe I will just "drop out", become homeless and be a parasite mooch on the social network????
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. -- Winnie the Pooh
#37. To: farmfriend (#36)
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#38. To: _______ (#37)
How do get stop funding the Nanny Stater-quislings?
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. -- Winnie the Pooh
#39. To: farmfriend (#38)
#40. To: robin, all (#0)
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