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Short video detailing HOW we got into this mess. And Obama is RIGHT in the MIDDLE OF IT!!! http://vodkapundit.com/?p=10199

As much as I dislike Huckabee (global warming, amnesty, pardoning criminals who "found" Jesus, only to kill again, religious bigotry), I have to hand it to him for giving a barn-burner of a speech last night. But I did have to check out his best line that Sarah Palin got more votes for mayor than he did for president. This is only true if you count the total of the caucus states. Sarah Palin was re-elected mayor with 909 votes. Biden got 287 caucus votes but 81,490 primary votes. Click the little underlined "+" sign at the source to see...

Clinton supporters at Democratic meeting fail in bid to end caucus system The party's platform committee sets aside the caucus amendment, saying the rules committee will deal with it. The new draft party platform is a mixed bag. By Peter Nicholas, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer August 10, 2008 PITTSBURGH -- Hillary Rodham Clinton loyalists tried Saturday to kill off the caucus system that proved so damaging to her presidential bid, but were beaten back by a Democratic Party leadership firmly under the command of her former rival, Barack Obama. Democrats who supported the New York senator's candidacy pushed to...

Marides Fernando, the mayor of Marikina, Philippines, explains to city council members how the family festival will be organized. SALT LAKE CITY 25 April 2008 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and government officials in the Philippines are joining together to provide resources to help strengthen families and communities. The mayor of the city of Marikina, Marides Fernando, recently visited the Philippines headquarters of the Church in Manila to discuss ways that her government could implement family-friendly initiatives. “I believe that in order for a person to be a good citizen, one should learn good values at home,”...

This letter is not intended as a response to the Obama campaign’s letter. However, in the interest of a complete record, and in contrast to the alleged minor procedural problems noted by the Obama campaign, the Committee wishes to bring to your attention information we have received evidencing a premeditated and predesigned plan by the Obama campaign to engage in systematic corruption of the Party’s caucus procedures. Compounding this blatant distortion of the caucus rules was an egregious effort by the Obama campaign to manipulate the voter registration process in its own favor, thereby disenfranchising countless voters. Finally, the Committee...

The Obama camp hotly disputed a claim this week by Galveston County Democratic Chairman Lloyd Criss that on election night, Obama supporters took caucus sign-in sheets to their campaign headquarters and added names to them. Criss, a Clinton supporter, made the claim earlier this week. But he said that since it didn’t change how many delegates the candidates got, he wasn’t that concerned about it. But Aaron Schiller, who ran the Obama campaign in Galveston, insisted it didn’t happen. “He was taking a free shot at us,” Schiller said. On Friday, Criss said he wasn’t sure that Obama supporters took...

Primary re-does costlyPOSTED: March 8, 2008 Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., left, get a hug from Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell as she in introduces at a campaign stop for a low dollar fundraising reception at the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University, in Washington, Monday, Feb. 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) LANSING (AP) — The biggest stumbling block to doing over the Democratic primaries in Michigan and Florida may be the cost. Michigan Democratic Chairman Mark Brewer estimates it would cost the state party $8 million to $12 million to set up party-run election sites and allow...

Terrific. He’s won 12 of the 14 caucuses held thus far, and one of her two wins was American Samoa. What could go wrong? Read the TNR post. Granholm did all she could to tip this to her/our gal by holding a primary early, back when Hillary was still “inevitable.” The DNC didn’t blink and now it’s come to this.Granholm said yesterday that the caucuses would have to be privately funded. Exit question one: Who’s paying? Exit question two: Is there a man or woman among you who thinks Hillary will win a caucus by a wide enough margin to...

WASHINGTON, March 5, 2008 – A bipartisan congressional effort kicked off on Capitol Hill today to stand behind America Supports You, a Defense Department program that connects citizens and corporations with military personnel and their families serving at home and abroad. From left: John E. Potter, U.S. postmaster general, Allison Barber, deputy assistant secretary of defense for internal communications and public liaison, Rep. Mary Bono Mack of California and Rep. Connie Mack of Florida, Karen Grimord, founder and president of the Landstuhl Hospital Care Project, and Army Brig. Gen. Gary Patton, director of manpower and personnel for the Joint...

I'm really trying to understand this ...If 100 people vote in a primary, and the vote splits 50/50, does that mean, when they come back together again and caucus, and the 'vote' goes 60/40 ...

In a raucous conference call to reporters that included an interruption and heated exchange with one of Barack Obama’s attorneys — Hillary Clinton’s campaign accused Obama supporters Tuesday of trying to hijack the Democratic presidential caucuses in Texas. The caucuses, which require supporters to organize and pledge their votes to their candidate in an open forum, began across the state immediately after primary polls closed at 9 p.m. ET. Shortly after their start time, Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson convened a conference call with reporters to claim that alleged irregularities in the Texas caucuses were “not typical” of the usual...

The Dallas Morning News gets hold of Clinton caucus "training materials," in which supporters are instructed to fight for procedural control of caucuses. The materials say in part, "DO NOT allow the supporter of another candidate to serve in leadership roles." It goes on to say, "If our supporters are outnumbered, ask the Temporary Chair if one of our supporters can serve as the Secretary, in the interest of fairness. "The control of the sign-in sheets and the announcement of the delegates allotted to each candidate are the critical functions of the Chair and Secretary. This is why it is...

Speaking on KTTH Radio today in Seattle, the Washington State Republican Chairman, Luke Esser, skillfully presented his response to presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee regarding allegations that Esser's order to stop the counting of caucus delegate preferences amounted to methods deployed by the now defunct Soviet Union. Explaining that he did not order the count to be stopped, Esser asserted that the count paused only for the evening and Sunday in order to let the all volunteer work force rest for the night and time to attend Sunday church services the following day. Expressing understanding that some would be unhappy with...

(CNN) — Mike Huckabee continued to cry foul Monday over the results in Saturday’s Washington State GOP caucuses, saying the state party chairman's decision to call the race there early for John McCain is reminiscent of elections in communist bloc nations. "That is not what we do in American elections," Huckabee said on CNN's American Morning Monday. "Maybe that's how they used to conduct it in the old Soviet Union, but you don't just throw people's votes out and say, 'well, we're not going to bother counting them because we kind of think we know where this was going.' In...

Saturday's Washington State Republican Caucus took place in 39 counties across the state and as the preliminary results poured in the data was analyzed, parsed, dissected and pontificated upon by commentators from across the cable broadcast spectrum. We heard CNN report that counting on the Republican side stopped at 87% due to "absentee ballots" yet to be counted. We were told by MSNBC that it was a Republican "race" that was too close to call. We were informed by Fox News that no Republican delegates were allocated with no reason given for this fact. Here is what they didn't tell...

Fox News has learned that the Huckabee campaign has called for a “full investigation” into the Washington State Caucus results, and are sending campaign lawyers to the state to help in that pursuit. Ed Rollins, Huckabee campaign chairman, directly challenged Washington State GOP Chairman Luke Essers move in anounncing that John McCain had won the tight race with only 87.2 percent of the votes counted. ” The chairman showed very bad judgement in stopping the voting last night when announcing John McCain had won, when there was less that a 200 vote margin between the two candidates,” Rollins told Fox...

CAPE ELIZABETH — Sen. Barack Obama cruised to an easy win in the Cape Elizabeth caucus on Saturday, defeating Sen. Hillary Clinton by a vote of 72 to 28 percent. More than 680 people turned out to participate in the caucus, more than double the number of those that showed up in 2004, according to Jamie Wagner, the chairman of the Cape Elizabeth Democratic Committee. The large crowd delayed the start of the caucus by more than an hour. Obama won by a final tally of 556 to 217. That total includes the 94 Democrats who voted absentee. The Illinois...

As a member of the Washington State Republican State Committee I wanted to make sure some information about the caucus got out. 49% of WA delegates are decided by the Caucus and Convention process. After Feb 9th Caucuses, the next step is the County Conventions, at which time delegates elected on Feb. 9th meet to discuss the Platform and Elect delegates to the State Convention. It is at the State Convention that the delegates from each county meet by Congressional District to elect delegates to the National Convention (with a promise of a vote on the first balloting). 51% are...

A Conservative Caucus within the Republican Party, a concept (vanity) Historical perspective: In 1968-9 there was a movement within the Democrat party to form a new left alliance. This alliance was formed of neo-communists, socialists, far left liberals and antiwar activists. It’s purpose was to effectively move the direction or take over the Democrat party. The intention was, first, as a caucus within the party to direct and shape national policy. Its long term goal was to take over the party. It partially succeeded when McGovern was nominated. It has continued to this day. I was a college student, what...

LANSING -- A top Michigan Democrat says the Democratic National Committee is pressuring Michigan and Florida to hold Democratic presidential caucuses so the delegates they've lost for holding January primaries can be seated at the national convention.DNC member Debbie Dingell said it's unclear whether either state would hold caucuses since they've already held primaries, Michigan on January 15 and Florida on January 29.But she said the DNC is asking the two states to consider such a plan as the likelihood grows that the selection of the party's nominee could come down to the national convention.DNC spokesman Damien LaVera said the...

AS OUR DEMOCRATIC process grinds toward selecting the next leader of the free world, it is also shedding light on the values a democracy should hold dear. Last weekend in Nevada, former President Bill Clinton said he witnessed voter intimidation firsthand. According to Clinton, a union representative was telling workers to agree to caucus for Sen. Barack Obama or expect to get a work schedule making it impossible for them to attend at all.

A veteran of Louisiana state campaigns offers this ironic suggestion about last night's Louisiana GOP primary — Fred Thompson won, or would have done well, had he not dropped out hours earlier. Louisiana's social conservatives created the winning "Pro-life, Pro-family" slate in early January largely because we didn't know if Fred was still going to be a candidate at the time of our caucuses (turns out that he wasn't, by a few hours). Because we had almost all the state's social conservative leaders for Fred, we were also able to stave off Huckabee by use of this "pro-life, pro-family" slate....

Who got the biggest boost on Saturday? Clinton - Winning Nevada Romney - Winning Nevada McCain - Winning South Carolina

Where Now From Here? The South Carolina primary turned out to be a clarifying event after all. Instead of the potential for five front-runners in the Super Tuesday contest in two weeks, it appears we will have at best three viable candidates for the nomination, and only if Rudy Giuliani proves his strategy correct by winning Florida. What will be left will be the three candidates that the conservative blogosphere has relentlessly criticized for their lack of lifelong fealty to the Ronald Reagan legacy, but whom voters have nevertheless trusted enough to support in the primaries. First, the failure of...

Woo HOOOOOOO!!! My husband, son and I just got back from our caucus at Cimmaron Memorial High School in northwest Las Vegas. Here's the count from Precinct 2455: Fred Thompson - 4 Mitt Romney - 3 Ron Paul - 2 Mike Huckabee - 1 McCain, Giuliani, Hunter - 0 votes each My favorite memory of this caucus: When the votes were being tallied up, a Ron Paul guy gasped in amazement, "Thompson!" More good news: I'm going to be a county delegate! [insert earpiercing shriek of Republican joy] more...

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Jan. 19, 2008 Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal THE NEVADA CAUCUS: WHAT'S ON THE LINE Groundwork laid months ago for state's upstart caucus to be put to test today By MOLLY BALL REVIEW-JOURNAL This is your only chance to have a say in whom the presidential candidates will be. Presidential candidates will not be on the ballot in Nevada's regularly scheduled August primary.Today's caucuses are not Nevada's first, they are just the first ones to be a big deal.Nevada Democrats have had caucuses for decades, but they were small affairs and usually occurred after the nominee already had been chosen...

January 18, 2008 3:10 pm EST ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – Today, the Ron Paul 2008 campaign is calling on the Nevada State Republican Party to re-examine multiple inconsistencies in the Nevada Caucus process, and to consider postponing the caucus, which is scheduled for Saturday, January 19. “The inconsistencies, errors and multiple changes in the rules reek of playing politics with the what should be a neutral process,” said Ron Paul 2008 campaign manager Lew Moore. “The people of Nevada deserve to know exactly what the rules are and to know that those rules are being fairly enforced. This has not happened...

Judging from his campaign schedule and media reports, it appears the Romney campaign has decided to cut paid media, dial back any last-minute campaigning in South Carolina, and try to survive a likely third-place finish there by winning Saturday's Nevada caucus. It's an understandable move, but a risky one that may prove to be a big strategic mistake in the overall race. First, it means Romney must now win Nevada. He is favored there - he's well organized and southern Nevada has a large LDS population - but you never know for sure in a caucus. Second, by pulling back...

- Or do they prefer a re-run of 'It came from Little Rock'? As state Democrats prepare to hold their Saturday caucuses, cynical Republicans might well encourage them to choose Sen. Hillary Clinton, figuring her high "negatives" -- the unusual number of Americans who tell pollsters they'd never vote for her under any circumstances -- would virtually guarantee a GOP victory in the fall. That's why it's a good thing for Democrats that freshman Illinois Sen. Barack Obama has managed to challenge the perception of Sen. Clinton's "inevitability." The Clinton campaign cites Sen. Clinton's "experience." In fact, she's a one-term-plus-a-year...

We're used to Democrats saying one thing and doing another, but the hypocrisy that will unfold at some local presidential caucus sites Saturday will surprise even hardened cynics. For decades, Democrats have stood against strengthening voter identification standards at polling sites. Modest identification reforms have been enacted in about half the states, with a handful of them requiring photo identification to prevent election fraud and uphold the integrity of balloting. Although Americans need photo ID to write checks, use credit cards, board airplanes and even collect welfare benefits, Democrats have argued that lower-income and minority citizens are less likely to...

Sen. Reid a no comment on caucus lawsuit (UPDATED)By J. Patrick Coolican January 12, 2008 · 4:01 PM Sen. Harry Reid declined to comment on a lawsuit brought to eliminate the at-large caucus sites that are designed to allow Strip casino workers to attend the caucus on Jan. 19. In an e-mail, his spokesman said Reid would leave it to the courts. The statement comes as a surprise, given that Reid is the public face of a contest meant to insure minority and labor representation like that of Strip casino workers, and the lawsuit would seem to undermine the legitimacy...

South Carolina will not go to the precincts alone on January 19th, but it seems that the media has mostly forgotten it. Nevada moved its contest to the same date with the blessings of both parties, but it has received little of the coverage of the other early primary and caucus states. Pollsters and candidates have also mostly skipped the home state of Sin City. As John Edwards would ask, "Why ... why?" Nevada wanted to raise its profile in the nomination process, and the parties seemed eager to expand the focus out West, which gets short shrift in the...

HomeQuestions and AnswersContact a CandidateContactEventsCaucus Locator Watch a welcome video featuring Congressman Jon Porter. Click here to play. Events Mock Caucus-Republican Women of Las Vegas 11:30 a.m.Wed, January 9, 2008 More > Volunteer We need plenty of help to make Nevada's Caucus a great success! Please sign up to volunteer below. Quick Links: Questions and AnswersMeet the CandidatesAttend EventsVolunteer to Help Caucus FAQ Who can participate in Nevada’s Republican caucuses? If you are currently registered as a Republican in Nevada you are already eligible to participate. If you are a new resident to Nevada or if you are planning...

Romney Wins Wyoming Caucuses By MEAD GRUVER – 7 hours ago CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Mitt Romney captured his first win of the Republican presidential race, gaining most of Wyoming's delegates at stake in GOP caucuses on Saturday. The former Massachusetts governor won seven delegates, former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson got two and California Rep. Duncan Hunter won one, meaning no other candidate could beat Romney. Caucuses were still being held to decide all 12 delegates at stake. The win was a boost for Romney, coming two days after his loss to Mike Huckabee in the Iowa caucuses and three...

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The Iowa Republican Party has neither counted nor reported the number of votes for Alan Keyes in the GOP caucuses held Jan. 3. "We didn't have the electronic means to record the tallies for Keyes, so we can't yet report to the public how many votes Keyes got," said John Lund at the Iowa GOP headquarters in Des Moines. "We can't report the Keyes votes until we've double-checked each individual paper ballot." Meanwhile, the Iowa GOP widely reported the vote tallies of all other candidates, including Tom Tancredo, who got 5 votes despite having quit the race. "I personally traveled...

Did you know there’s another caucus before the New Hampshire primary? Yes, it’s Wyoming, and it’s Saturday, January 5. Though it’s raised the ire of the RNC, Wyoming is moving forward with its primary anyway in the hopes of playing an important, if less than decisive role, in selecting the GOP nominee. To add to the mystery, no major media operation is covering the race, nor have they bothered to poll Wyomingites, so we are left to wonder who, if anyone, will win, and whether it will matter. The buzz in Wyoming centers around two candidates - Fred Thompson and...

 IOWA There will be plenty of discussion of the Iowa Caucus on the air today ... so no sense in spilling all of the beans in the notes. For those of you who care, and there are many who don't, the winners were Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton came in third. Here are the results with 100 percent of precincts reporting: Democrats: Obama 38% Edwards 30% Clinton 29% Richardson 2% Gravel and Kucinich didn't even get one percent of the vote. Republicans: Huckabee 34% Romney 25% Thompson 13% McCain 13% Paul 10%  Rudy didn't play in...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Republican Fred Thompson remained upbeat despite failing to win or finish second in the Iowa caucuses. Thompson congratulated his opponents — Mike Huckabee won the vote and Mitt Romney finished second — and said he was looking forward to the contests in New Hampshire next Tuesday and beyond. As of midnight, Thompson and John McCain were in a close race for a third-place finish.

A SALUTE TO THE CAUCUS AND ALL THOSE CAMPAIGNERS OUT THERE....  If you're sick of it now....we still have 10 more months of this crap!!!  Campaign Calendar 01/14/08 Iowa caucuses 01/15/08 Obama, Edwards, Richardson, Kucinich drop out 01/22/08 New Hampshire Primary 03/11/08 Rudy celebrates 9/11's half-birthday 04/20/08 Hillary and Bill get stoned and reminisce about the good old days when they were innocent and in love 05/22/08 Libertarian convention (Theme: Pimps and hoes) 08/24/08 Deadline for Al Gore to lose 25 pounds and enter the race 08/25/08 Democratic convention 09/01/08 GOP convention (Theme: 80s night) 11/06/08 Sadie Hawkins Dance 11/07/08...

 Jan. 4, 2008... based on the Iowa Caucus results:Democrats:Obama 38, Edwards 30, Clinton 29, Richardson 2, Biden 1, Dodd 0, Gravel 0 Republicans:Huckabee 34, Romney 25, Thompson 13, McCain 13, Paul 10, Giuliani 3, Hunter 0     This cartoon/graphic is free for noncommercial use in emails, blogs, and forums.  iowapresidentialwatch.com

Huckabee? Oh please. Iowa has demonstrated once again why its choices for president are persistently incorrect. Recent winners of the Iowa caucuses include John Kerry, Al Gore, Tom Harkin, Dick Gephardt, Walter Mondale, and Bob Dole. None of whom went on to be President. While Iowa has proven to be a better indicator for Republicans, it is rare that there is not a heavy GOP favorite or heir apparent in the race. The Huckabee victory proves only what we already knew about GOP politics in Iowa. An exceedingly small group of people participate, those who do tend to be activists,...

Final results of a survey conducted for The Associated Press among voters at the Iowa caucuses Thursday night: WHAT THEY WANTED About half of Democrats said they most wanted their candidate to bring about needed change, and Barack Obama won the support of 51 percent of this group. Hillary Rodham Clinton dominated among those citing experience, but they represented only one-fifth of voters. Another fifth said they most wanted a candidate who cared about people like them, and they liked John Edwards. Only about one in 10 said they most wanted a contender with the best chance of capturing the...

Billed as the fringe candidate, Texas representative and presidential candidate Ron Paul garnered just over 10% of the vote during the Iowa caucuses Thursday night, with results still filtering in. Although Paul's supporters are known to be die-hard fans and quite energetic, the small government representative was not given much of a chance from the beginning of the campaign season. Paul's polling numbers have steadily increased over the latter part of 2007, and even polls above mainstream candidate Fred Thompson in the state of New Hampshire.

Mike Huckabee appeared headed to a convincing victory among Republicans, while Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama appeared to be in a head-to-head battle for victory, as Iowans began to render the first true judgments of the 2008 presidential cycle Thursday night.

There's a guy in Iowa blogging at the First Friday blog who is pretty good about answering questions, if you have anything you're wondering about the caucus tonight.

<p>I thought the time was right to start up a live thread for results and comments about tonight, so here we are!</p>

Republicans (In alphabetical order): Democrats (In alphabetical order):

AMES, Iowa -- Doug Gross, the chairman of Mitt Romney’s campaign in Iowa, said today it is focusing on turning out its supporters Thursday night, placing 22,000 phone calls just on Tuesday in an attempt to make sure the more than 50,000 Romney supporters they have identified show up. "This is all about a ground game," Gross told reporters. "And the bottom line is whoever does the best job at turning out is going to win this thing. And we think we have the best organization… We’ve been working the last year, year and a half, on organization, and we’re...