POLITICS Maine turns out for Ron

[Guest guest]

Over the last three days of caucuses here, Maine has delivered more support

both in delegates and the presidential preference poll than any other state

reported by the media thus far. He may have actually won Louisana, but

there's a media blackout of that situation.

The media is reporting that he came in third in the presidential preference

poll in Maine with 19% of the vote compare to McCain with 21% and Romney

with 52%, with 68% of the precincts reporting. In no other state (with the

possible exception of Louisiana) has he received such high numbers.

BUT, the preference poll is just a popularity poll and not indicative of the

number of delegates that are going to the state convention and voting for

each candidate THERE, which is the only thing that matters in terms of

winning a party's nomination. Grassroots data collection of several areas of

the state indicate that Ron may have as many as 35% of Maine's

delegates (as a conservative estimate). This means he could potentially get

more of Maine's delegates than any other candidate when the remaining 65% is

divided up among the other candidates.

The media is erroneously reporting that Mitt Romney got all of Maine

caucus-related 18 delegates. This is ABSOULTELY FALSE. I find it interesting

that CNN, for instance, was able to report the division of delegates in

other states that had primaries or caucuses a while ago, but they have a

blackout on Louisiana where Ron initially won, but where the GOP

changed the rules after he won so they could get more delegates for other

candidates and that CNN is falsely reporting that Romney got all of Maine's

delegates in the 2 days prior to super Tuesday. Our delegates are totally

UNCOMMITTED to any candidate when they go to the state convention in May. So

the media has no business, if they actually really cared about accuracy,

reporting that Maine's delegates went to Romney. Of course if they reported

that Ron may have picked up over 1/3 of Maine's delegates, that might

inspire Super Tuesday voters to go out and vote for him. Wouldn't want that

now, would we CNN, Fox and " friends " ?

Suze Fisher

Maine

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~Albert Schweitzer