Romney wins GOP caucus in US territory of Guam [all 9 delegates]

AP via FOX ^ | march 9, 2012

[Bulwinkle]

TAMUNING, Guam – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney picked up nine more delegates Saturday, winning unanimous backing at the Guam GOP convention.

Republicans on the tiny Pacific island decided to shun traditional paper ballots and all 215 eligible to vote at the convention backed Romney with a show of hands.....

[Bulwinkle]

Chips are what counts and Mitt picked up 9 more....likely pick up more from Mariana islands.

[2ndDivisionVet]

You know what they say, “...as goes Guam, so goes Outer Mongolia and Cameroon” where they can’t vote in US elections, either.

[Bulwinkle]

it is the only news of THREE am eastern time

[Bulwinkle]

Besides, 9 delegate is more than Santorum got in New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida, Arizona, Nevada and Georgia COMBINED!

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/republican_delegate_count.html

[BigEdLB]

Romney got 207 votes. It was unanimous.
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/GU-R

[noprogs]

Come on now! There aren’t nine resident Repubs on the island. Well there are still zero conservatives. Reminds me of several northeastern states.........

[Surrounded_too]

Guam likely has a lot of Mormons if you can tell by the number of Quamese who played football at BYU over the years.

[A. Morgan]

Bingo!

[Diogenesis]

Voters for Backstabber Romney tend to be
dog abusers, cheaters, and liars or just
in love with them.

[trebb]

When yer purpose is to suck at the teat, and yer small enough to not be noticed, you can vote “Republican” and still get a nanny-statist. The best of both worlds...

[Lady Lucky]

Got some tart words, but I actually like Guam so I’ll just hold muh peace.

[Vaquero]

good lets take up a collection and send Mittens to the pacific as the new Lord Governor of Guam and possibly the Marianas.

[Allon]

This doesn't surprise me, he's the only one who sent a campaign representative there, I believe it was one of his sons.

There are actually a lot of delegates to be had this week and next “off shore”. It's good strategy by Mitt to pursue them, the others should have too. I suspect Mitt will get them all except for possibly Hawaii, but there's a large LDS population there too, so it could go either way.

March 10
Guam 9 Delegates
Northern Marianas Islands 9 Delegates
Virgin Islands 9 Delegates

March 13
American Samoa Caucuses 9 delegates
Hawaii Caucuses 20 delegates

March 18 Puerto Rico Caucuses 23 delegates

[italianquaker]

Just think of this MR makes sure he gets delegates in Guam.
Some of the GOP candidates dont even get on the ballot in important US states. Cmon what is wrong with this crew.

[Allon]

Other than a brokered convention, this is a delegate race, and every single one matters. Why no one else is pursuing these small ones is beyond me. There’s about 80 delegates total here in these island caucuses in the next couple of weeks. That adds up!

[Hawthorn]

>> Why no one else is pursuing these small ones is beyond me <<

Probably because none of the three “non-Romneys” got into the race with a realistic thought of actually winning the nod:

(a) The Newtster got in so as to increase his books sales and speaking fees.

(b) Santo got in so as to raise his name recongition as a DC lobbyist and possible 2016 candidate.

(c) Ronny the P got in so as to bolster the Libertarian movement.

In other words, none of the three ever expected to be where he is today. Therefore, none of them bothered to solicit support in all “57 states” of the Union.

[Keith in Iowa]

Kevin, the Lost Bunny of the Appocolypse didn't win??? Scott Stantis is going to have to come up with a new meme. And perhaps now that this nonsense is over, I'll pay attention to his strip again...

[Jeff Head]

He did pick up the Marianna Islands 9 delgates too. Won 100% in Guam and 87% in the Mariannas.

Here's the figures after Romney took both last night...small contests ignored by the other candidates but to which Romney sent one of his sons. The results are that he added all eighteen of those delegates to his count.

As I have stated, Santorum and Gingrich have to unite soon to stop Romney. If Santorum can upset Gingrich's southern strategy and win Mississippi and Alabama, perhaps then Gingrich will throw in behind Santorum.

Here's the latest data from my GOP Primary Tracker Site.

2012 GOP Presidential Primary Season Tracker (including caucuses) - LAST UPDATE: March 10, 2012

2012 GOP Primaries	Date	Mitt Romney				Newt Gingrich				Rick Santorum				Ron Paul				Ron Huntsman			Rick Perry			Michele Bachman			Herman Cain			Totals
		Votes	%	Del's	Win	Votes	%	Del's	Win	Votes	%	Del's	Win	Votes	%	Del's	Win	Votes	%	Del's	Votes	%	Del's	Votes	%	Del's	Votes	%	Del's	Votes	Del's
Iowa	1/3/2012	29,805	24.58%	7	-	16,163	13.33%	2	-	29,839	24.61%	7	1	26,036	21.47%	7	-	739	0.61%	0	12,557	10.36%	0	6,046	4.99%	0	58	0.05%	0	121,243	23
New Hamp	1/10/2012	97,601	39.81%	7	1	23,291	9.50%	0	-	23,362	9.53%	0	-	56,872	23.20%	3	-	41,783	17.04%	2	1,764	0.72%	0	350	0.14%	0	160	0.07%	0	245,183	12
South Caro	1/21/2012	168,152	27.86%	2	-	244,133	40.44%	23	1	102,492	16.98%	0	-	78,362	12.98%	0	-	1,173	0.19%	0	2,534	0.42%	0	491	0.08%	0	6,326	1.05%	0	603,663	25
Florida	1/31/2012	776,059	46.44%	50	2	534,040	31.96%	0	-	223,208	13.36%	0	-	117,410	7.03%	0	-	6,199	0.37%	0	6,773	0.41%	0	3,967	0.24%	0	3,492	0.21%	0	1,671,148	50
Nevada	2/4/2012	16,486	50.12%	14	3	6,956	21.15%	6	-	3,277	9.96%	3	-	6,175	18.77%	5	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	32,894	28
Main		2,190	39.65%	9	4	349	6.32%	0	-	989	17.90%	3	-	1,996	36.13%	7	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	5,524	19
Colorado	2/7/2012	22,875	35.00%	13	-	8,394	12.84%	1	-	26,372	40.35%	17	2	7,713	11.80%	1	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	65,354	32
Minnesota		8,096	16.97%	2	-	5,134	10.76%	1	-	21,436	44.94%	25	3	13,030	27.32%	9	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	47,696	14
Missouri		63,826	26.24%	0	-	9,859	4.05%	0	-	138,957	57.12%	0	4	30,641	12.59%	0	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	243,283	0
Arizona	2/28/2012	216,805	47.99%	29	5	74,110	16.40%	0	-	122,088	27.03%	0	-	38,753	8.58%	0	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	451,756	29
Michigan		409,899	42.34%	16	6	65,016	6.72%	0	-	377,521	38.99%	14	-	115,712	11.95%	0	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	968,148	30
Washington	3/3/2012	19,111	37.65%	30	7	5,221	10.28%	0	-	12,089	23.81%	5	-	12,594	24.81%	5	-	924	1.82%	0	437	0.86%	0	198	0.39%	0	190	0.37%	0	50,764	40
Wyoming		822	38.99%	10	8	165	7.83%	1	-	673	31.93%	9	-	439	20.83%	6	-	3	0.14%	0	2	0.09%	0	2	0.09%	0	2	0.09%	0	2,108	26
Alaska	3/6/2012	4,285	32.52%	8	9	1,856	14.09%	3	-	3,860	29.30%	7	-	3,175	24.10%	6	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	13,176	24
Georgia	S	225,926	25.18%	15	-	417,364	47.81%	47	2	172,473	19.76%	10	-	57,125	6.54%	4	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	872,888	76
Idaho	u	27,514	61.61%	32	10	940	2.11%	0	-	8,115	18.17%	0	-	8,086	18.11%	0	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	44,655	32
Massachusetts	p	260,509	73.29%	41	11	16,756	4.71%	0	-	43,6114	12.27%	0	-	34,575	9.735	0	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	355,455	41
N. Dakota	e	2,691	23.71%	7	-	961	8.48%	2	-	4,510	39.74%	11	5	3,186	28.07%	8	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	11,349	28
Ohio	r	453,927	38.93%	32	12	174,606	14.78%	10	-	441,908	37.42%	20	-	110,633	9.37%	4	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	1,181,074	66
Oklahoma		80,291	28.34%	13	-	78,686	27.77%	13	-	96,759	34.15%	14	6	27,572	9.73%	13	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	283,208	43
Tennessee	T	153,889	28.46%	18	-	132,142	24.43%	12	-	204,978	37.90%	26	7	49,782	9.21%	2	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	540,791	58
Vermont	u	22,533	41.01%	9	13	4,606	8.39%	0	-	13,401	24.39%	4	-	14,407	26.22%	4	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	54,949	17
Virginia	e	158,050	59.52%	44	14	0	0.00%	0	-	0	0.00%	0	-	107,470	40.48%	5	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	265,520	49
Guam	3/10/2012	215	100%	9	15	0	0.00%	0	-	0	0.00%	0	-	0	0.00%	0	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	215	9
Marianna Is		738	87.03%	9	16	29	3.42%	0	-	27	3.18%	0	-	54	6.37%	0	-	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	0	0.00%	0	848	9
Virgin Is																															9
Kansas																															40
Alabama	3/13/2012																														50
Am Somoa																															9
Hawaii																															20
Mississippi																															40
Missouri	3/17/2012																														52
Puerto Rico	3/18/2024																														23
Illinois	3/20/2012																														69
Louisiana	3/24/2012																														46
DC	4/3/2012																														19
Maryland																															37
Wisconsin																															42
Texas																															155
At large Del's				29				4				1				0				0			0			0					28
TOTALS		3,222,295	39.62%	455	16	1,820,777	22.39%	125	2	2,071,948	25.48%	177	7	921,798	11.33%	90	0	50,821	0.62%	2	24,067	0.30%	0	11,054	0.14%	0	10,228	0.13%	0	8,132,988	849
To Date % of	Delegates		Romney	54%			Gingrich	15%			Santorum	21%			Paul	11%			Huntsman	<1%		Perry	0%		Bachman	0%		Cain	0%

[TitansAFC]

Rick Santorum appears to have put his foot in his mouth again here.

“...The former Pennsylvania senator created some controversy in Guam last January when he said the left-leaning judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco should be banished to the island. Santorum tried to make amends Friday with an apologetic phone call to Guam Republicans but it did no good....”

Ugh. Every friggin’ week with Rick.......

[icwhatudo]

"Besides, 9 delegate is more than Santorum got in New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida, Arizona, Nevada and Georgia COMBINED!"

Those same 9 delegates are more that Newt got in Iowa, New Hampshire, Florida, Colorado, Maine, Michigan, Arizona, Wyoming, Washington, Ohio, Massachusetts, Idaho, North Dakota, Alaska, and Vermont combined so I'm not sure what point you are making.

I really hope that with the conservative states of Kansas, Alabama, and Mississippi making their decisions next, we will soon be able to unify behind one candidate to defeat Romney.

[EGPWS]

Chips are what counts and Mitt picked up 9 more....

It's becoming clear that for a true conservative to become POTUS again in this wonderful country, a 3rd party or other means is the only way it is going to happen.

[Allon]

Why do you think a third party has any chance of gaining WH? Palin warned of this approach, and is against such an idea.

A third party will do nothing except further fragment the GOP and hand Obama the next 4 years.

[EGPWS]

A third party will do nothing except further fragment the GOP and hand Obama the next 4 years.

A Mitt Romney nomination is going to hand 0bama another 4 years and those idiot elitists in the GOP know it!

[Allon]

There are only two options... winning enough delegates or contesting to a brokered convention. There is no viable 3rd party option that will secure the WH. Palin has said as much herself.

[Dengar01]

I'm confused why do we still have territories from World War 2? This is the most insane election I've ever seen. I'm supposed to care about small islands so far from Washington DC and aren't tourist attractions like Hawaii???

Maybe Romney can plop some supporters on Iwo Jima and Pelelui and demand delegates! Wow, ridiculous...

[Raider Sam]

Mitt seems to be using the strategy of winning races that award delegates, while some of the others seem to be using the strategy of winning moral victories without getting delegates.

A lot of people want to blame Newt for Santorum losing and Santorum for Newt losing, but the truth is that Romney is the only one running a serious campaign.

[tcrlaf]

“Cmon what is wrong with this crew.”

It’s Organization, GOTV, and MONEY that win nominations, not TV debates.

Romney has had four years to plan for this. It’s showing, now.

[Allon]

The only thing ridiculous is that the other candidates aren’t organized enough to realize the rules of the game.

[Dagnabitt]

Mittens “picks up the blinds” here. Chips is chips.

[Downinthedixie]

Yea third party is a great way to get a conservative president.

Oh wait, no it’s not. It’s actually a terrible idea.

[txrangerette]

Newt and Santorum were both essentially broke.

Of the two, Newt did by far the best job in lining things up. He tried in VA as did Perry, but the only ones who passed muster there were the two who ran before, Romney and Paul. Their submissions were not checked.

Santorum did not even try to qualify for VA ballot.

Santorum has difficulties in various states with delegates and will not win as many delegates as his vote totals would suggest he should.

Newt does not have those delegate problems.

Ron Paul is a special case. He is a Libertarian masquerading as a Republican in order to have a chance to draw attention, get in the debates and get anywhere at all. He may very well go third party, or if not, negotioate his son Rand onto a ticket in return for his delegates.

Newt is a man of towering accomplishment and intellect. He wanted to drive the debate and rehabilitate himself politically and personally, from what I have seen of his run, but without money and organization such as Romney has out the wazoo, he has done amazingly well.

Before Romney unleashed the neutron bomb of lying ads on Newt, he was the leading candidate of all, nationwide.

He crashed in Iowa due to that attack, recovered in the good state of SC, then hobbled into second to Mitt’s powerful FL punch. Early votes alone, for Romney, were enough to sink Newt there, but Romney false Newt ads were a 65-1 ratio to negative ads about Mitt.

Given all, Newt did much better than Santo in doing necessary nuts and bolts. Neither were flush enough to contest Mitt on far off islands, as important as each delegate is.

Ron Paul does well organizationally, but he isn’t a Republican and many people love him on some things and believe he’s insane on others. Therefore no matter what, he cannot win states and caucuses, but does collect a lot of proportional delegates to use as leverage.

[DestroyLiberalism]

Raider Sam wrote:
<<
Mitt seems to be using the strategy of winning races that award delegates, while some of the others seem to be using the strategy of winning moral victories without getting delegates.
>>

**************************************************************

True... I’ve noticed Romney spends almost none of his time campaigning in caucus states.

[paudio]

So, those territories have a total of 59 delegates (excluding HI)... that’s quite a lot of delegates than people realize...

[Bulwinkle]

“So, those territories have a total of 59 delegates (excluding HI)... that’s quite a lot of delegates than people realize...”

Mitt pick up 18 today, Ricky and newt 0.... 9 Guam and 9 Mariana Islands.

[paudio]

Yeah, under the radar. The way it goes, with Mitt is the only one who bother to send a campaign rep to those territories, he’ll get a lion share of delegates there...

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

You completely miss the point. If Myth Romney is the nominee, there will be a leftist president; the only question is whether the leftist will have an “R” or a “D” next to his name. Most here aren’t that into the “crips versus bloods” stuff.

The only way to EVER get a conservative president is to have the GOP nominate a conservative. If they choose to nominate Myth, it will be important to have a CONSERVATIVE 3rd party take enough votes away from him that the party learns is simply cannot continue nominating from the left of the party. If we don’t do that, we’ll keep getting Dole/McStain/Myth type nominees.

Hank

[presently no screen name]

With Romney in the R race - we basically have a two party system as ONE.

So a third party is not really a third but a second party.

[presently no screen name]

I agree. We are really down to ONE party with two names to deceive. We need a second party.

[presently no screen name]

No it’s not. It really a second party. We only have ONE now with different names.

Mitt is so far from being a republican as I am from being a liberal. So all bets are off for those who can see the writing on the wall.

[presently no screen name]

Great post! You explained it perfectly. And I’ll add Mitt has no reason being in a R race. His record proves otherwise. We now have a liberal and a libertarian crashing into the republican race.

[presently no screen name]

Bump!!

[stephenjohnbanker]

” You know what they say, “...as goes Guam, so goes Outer Mongolia and Cameroon”

LOL!!

[Impy]

Romney get’s delegates from Guam, the NM Islands, the Virgin Islands, and Wyoming.

Thankfully it doesn’t seem like anyone gives a damn (see the funny comment in post #2) so RS is the winner of the day for taking Kansas.

[Evil Slayer]

I'm confused why do we still have territories from World War 2? This is the most insane election I've ever seen. I'm supposed to care about small islands so far from Washington DC and aren't tourist attractions like Hawaii???

Agree!

This is a future President of the (United States) that is being considered for election come November. Where does the Constitution allow places like Guam, etc. decide who will become the nominee? So it's a territory. So what? Is China, Russia, Iran, etc. next?

I feel like the US is becoming more and more like the UN. If Obama gets elected, he will be very happy to let the UN take full control of the country.

God help us.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Examined your post history. You are for Romney, aren’t you? And you know the FR position on that RINO??

[Dengar01]

Well there are two reasons we have all of these stupid territories in the middle no where. Spanish American War which 99% of Historians believe was made up so we could grab Puerto Rico and The Philippines.

Other territories we got from Lend Lease under Obama's hero FDR.

Call me a racist, or an anti-island bigot, ect... but give Guam, Samoa and Puerto Rico back to their people, this country is enough of a basket case without having to worry about people living in jungles chucking spears at wild hogs!

[Dengar01]

I'm cranky because we lost so many men fighting in the Marianas, luckily we have the story of the "Marianas Turkey Shoot" (referring to us obliterated the Japanese Navy in WW2)

If I sound like a lib, ban me but when we have so many problems in this country why should I worry about Guam, Virgin Islands and of all places the Marianas Islands other than WW2 I think it's best know for the TV Show "Survivor"!!!

I'd cut them all loose including Puerto Rico, what have they done for me lately? And all the psycho commies in DC who proudly have their "No taxation with representation" I would make DC either a city in Virginia or Maryland. So they can quit bitching about not having 2 rat Senators and a rat Congressman.

If DC had 2 senators the Rats would win with 99.9% of the vote. I'd incorporate DC in Maryland, it'd give em some more criminals to add to the criminals in Baltimore but atleast they can't claim they don't have representation!!!

Sorry smoke break, blood pressure about to explode!!! Stop RINOS NOW!!!

[Dengar01]

I want to see the “Iwo Jima for Romney” sign. This is disgusting. Why do islands that have less population than the amount of men Sandra Fluke fornicated with matter to me?

[onyx]

Everything is made worse when you realize that Romney’s have been here for over a century, but NO Romney has ever served in our military.

[TheOldLady]

Shout that from the rooftops!