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Ron Paul Disappointed in Maine Caucuses Results

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February 13, 2012 RSS Feed Print

Ron Paul, stung by a loss in the Maine Republican presidential caucuses over the weekend, says he will fight on for the GOP presidential nomination.

Some of his supporters even argue that he can turn around the Maine results and actually win the state because of an unusual delay in the balloting of a single county. It turns out that an expected snowstorm persuaded Washington County officials to postpone their area's vote until this Saturday. Paul backers theorize they can generate enough support in Washington County to change the state results and give the win to Paul. He lost Maine to Mitt Romney by 194 votes.

The results reversal seems unlikely, partly because Romney could also push his voters to show up Saturday. Also, it's far from certain that the Paul campaign can generate the necessary margin in one sparsely populated rural county after Romney has already been declared the winner of the state-wide contest.

[Ron Paul Might Need a New Strategy.]

Regardless, Paul and his allies were stung by the loss.

"You know, we were a little bit disappointed last night," the Texas congressman told CBS's "Face the Nation" Sunday, hours after losing Maine. "We did very well up there. But we're going to continue to do what we do, and do the very best and keep accumulating delegates."

He declined to criticize Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, but did throw some zingers at the other two candidates in the GOP presidential race, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.

"Their records are far from being conservative," Paul said.

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Maine Election Fraud

There is a lot more election fraud going on in Maine besides the Washington County delay. There is also:

1. The state GOP instructing precincts to not tally or publicize vote counts at each precinct, just forward the privately counted totals to state HQ. What? That's a classic strategy to steal votes when people can't verify their precincts!

2. Precinct tallies were then combined with other precincts so that it becomes even more difficult to verify results.

3. When individual precincts results could be verified, the state totals don't match up with the precinct totals, by a substantial margin.

4. Delegate votes - some precincts had more delegate ballots than they should have, so the precinct chair then claims the privilege of appointing all delegates themselves rather than re-voting. Who has the easiest access to stuffing the ballot box? The precinct chair! (Why not revote? We're only talking about a few dozen people in each case. It wouldn’t be very prohibitive)

5. The 'errors' so far, all seem to be going towards Romney's favor (Charlie Webster, state GOP party chair, is a Romney supporter)

6. The errors so far are enough for Ron Paul to win, regardless of what happens in Washington County.

7. The state GOP is refusing to work out these problems or reconvene for 3 weeks, until after Super Tuesday

If this straw vote is so inconsequential, then why has the media spent millions of dollars, 1000s of articles in 100s of different media outlets reporting on every facet of these beauty contest votes for months now? Meaningless? I don't think so. Donations, momentum and support levels are determined by the results of each state. Widespread fraud also tells us a lot about the potential elect ability of the candidate that needs this kind of skulduggery in order to win.

For more info on this issue, see also http://youtu.be/pqsyzTrWS0g Ben Swan at Reality Check

JohnMikal of NY 2:59PM February 15, 2012

It's not the loss that was disappointing, it was that the GOP resorted to fraud again to achieve it.

There was canceling the caucus in Washington County (the only county that Ron Paul won in 2008). Precincts were instructed by Charlie webster, to hide the ballot counts (not do them publicly) and then, surprise, the state totals don't match the tallies in the precinct.

See Ben swan, Reality Check for some additional data. http://youtu.be/pqsyzTrWS0g Charlie Webster, state party GOP chair and Romney supporter committed fraud on so many levels during this election.

JohnMikal of NY 10:48AM February 15, 2012

This one has SHARE written all over it!!! The Ron Paul campaign came forward Saturday claiming the establishment is purposely hiding Maine’s overall caucus results and delegate totals from the American people to prevent any potential surge or momentum from taking place as a result of the success he had in the caucus. Continue reading on Examiner com http://www.examiner.com/conspiracy-in-denver/ron-paul-campaign-establishment-hiding-maine-caucus-results

celebs4truth.com of CO 1:09AM February 14, 2012

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