Posted on 01/23/2008 10:49:10 AM PST by mnehring
On Tuesday night, approximately ten thousand Louisiana Republicans caucused in 11 different cities across the state. Those attending the caucuses cast their vote for 15 delegates and 15 alternates to represent their congressional district at the 2008 Louisiana Republican Convention. Results were tallied on site late into the night and then reported to Republican Party Headquarters in Baton Rouge. Of the thousands of ballots cast, approximately 650 were cast provisionally.
Before these provisional ballots are counted, LAGOP staff must verify that the voter was a registered Republican voter in his or her congressional district as of November 30, 2007. The counting of provisional ballots in the 3rd and 7th Congressional districts is not needed to verify the results as the margin of victory for all winning candidates is larger than the number of provisional ballots casts. For the other five Congressional districts, Republican Party staff members will begin the process of verifying the results through each parish's registrar of voter's office. Once that process is complete, the Secretary of the Republican of Louisiana will certify the official results.
Prior to the tabulation of the provisional ballots, the uncommitted "Pro-Life/Pro-Family" slate appears to have won a majority of delegates in all seven congressional districts.
All candidates who ran for alternate delegate in the the 2nd, 3rd and 4th congressional districts won after qualifying as there were 15 or fewer candidates for those positions. The files below contain the unofficial results broken down by district and position. The P column shows the number of provisional ballots cast.
I messed up the links above to the individual results. You can find them from this link:
I was at the 6th district caucus. The PaulBots were definitely out in force.
goes to show us that IF THE REPUBLICANS would have supported candidates with PRO LIFE/PRO FAMILY/Marriage and given Rudy and the likes the boot, we would be on the move. We are too fragmented now and divided....
I just did a Google search and the Paulbots are claiming victory because of ‘observed’ turnout.. even though the State hasn’t finalized the numbers yet and the unofficial numbers don’t agree. They are claiming conspiracy.. why am I not surprised.
Interesting. I think there is an “uncommitted” line on the ballot in the CT primary Feb 5 and for the first time ever I might just use it. Or I could vote for Thompson anyway.
Unfortunately, the results just show the names of the delegates, with no information about which “slate” they were attached to.
Also, while it said that there were slates of 15 running, it sure didn’t look like any sets of 15 took the same number of votes.
Third, I think “alternate” is meaningless, unless delegates get sick somehow. I don’t think these are “alternates” that could get a vote eventually — which would be why there wasn’t much of a contest for the alternates.
Fourth, it really seems odd that any major candidate wouldn’t show up with a slate of 15 delegates. Although I don’t know if the process allowed each person at the caucus to vote for 15 names, or if you only voted for one name, in which case it would make sense for a candidate to have fewer choices to pool their support. I’m pretty sure each caucus member got 15 votes, and it seems that some split their votes between slates.
Anyway, the description has been spotty everywhere I’ve looked, and I’d love to see if someone who was there could explain how this was actually done.
Pretty cool that the uncommitted slate won.
Reason enough to
Re-draft Duncan Hunter into the Presidential Race
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1958247/posts
That’s similar to the Illinois 2006 governor primary. The conservative vote split, helping then-Treasurer Judy Topinka (who is pro-choice and pro-gay marriage) win the primary, with about 40% of the vote. In the general election, she won 38%.
Thats a good thing.
I’m just going on whats in the thread article.
I know. But how much money did Uncommitted have in this race?
Update, this seems to be the coalition that came together ofr the Pro-Life/Pro-Family vote:
http://gatortesting.net/prolifeprofamily/
Basically, 49 percent of Republican voters could choose Huckabee, but none of the State’s delegates would be obligated to vote for him at the national convention.
It looks as though in the district voting, a majority decided to declare uncommitted up front versus letting any candidate breach the 50% point, so second or third place, if under 50% (obviously) doesn’t matter at all.
The big conspiracy right now seems to come from the fact that Paul supporters don’t like that a majority of voters decided to go uncommitted versus choose a candidate, thus, they assume, keeping Paul from receiving 50% (which, if he didn’t even come in second, would be mathematically improbable anyway.) They also made a tactical error in focusing on alternates, which, as you pointed out, really are useless votes.
Either way, it looks like no candidate got 50%, even taking out the uncommitted, so they will go to the State uncommitted anyway and vote there.
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