McCain in New Hampshire

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

McCain in New Hampshire

Duke of Mirth · Profuse Pontificator

Did you notice that Ron Paul nearly beat Gulianni in New Hampshire?

Romney has got to start getting some wins under his belt. I wonder what the pulse of the voters is in Michigan?

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

According to CNN, Romney actually has the most delegates total on the Republican side now.

I think there needs to be some sort of common sense restraint put on the constant pollstering by the press though. It is hard to find any of it reliable or believeable any longer, and I think it is adversely impacting every candidate in both party to some extent.

Let the candidates do their campaigning and allow people to decide on their own who to vote for instead of leading them to and fro with the "popularity" shifts of the media polls.

It was nice to see Romney do as well as he did (and for that matter, Paul too, even though I do not support him) in New Hampshire. McCain won because of wooing the more liberal leaning conservative independents to him, is my take. And frankly, most of New England is a bit more liberal leaning than the rest of the U.S. aside from the west coast and the large cities in the mid-west.

arbilad · Head Chef

Duke of Mirth wrote:

Did you notice that Ron Paul nearly beat Gulianni in New Hampshire?

Romney has got to start getting some wins under his belt. I wonder what the pulse of the voters is in Michigan?

Did you notice that Ron Paul did beat Giuliani in Iowa?

Well, if we judge all Michigan voters by Cat, they're going to vote for Romney.

arbilad · Head Chef

Let the candidates do their campaigning and allow people to decide on their own who to vote for instead of leading them to and fro with the "popularity" shifts of the media polls.

I totally agree with this sentiment.

mirkwood · Senior Bucketkeeper

No kidding.

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

I'm confused. CNN shows Romney leading the delegate count, but MSNBC shows Huckabee leading. Which is it?

-- Edited by bokbadok at 14:52, 2008-01-09

DoubleD · Senior Member

Unfortunately, MSNBC is correct.

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

How do you know MSNBC is right? How can we be sure any news site is correct? The RNC does not have a tally list at it's website...

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

the delegate thing is weird. as I understand it, delegates can change their minds and vote differently at the actual party convention than what their state indicated, should they feel so inclined.

--Ray

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

Only unpledged delegates are free to vote how they wish at the convention. The vast majority of delegates are pledged, which means that they are assigned to vote for a certain candidate depending on the results of the state primary/caucus.