Thread: National Presidential Caucus Announces Results From First-Ever National Caucus

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
National Presidential Caucus Announces Results From First-Ever National Caucus
-- Barack Obama Wins Democrat Caucuses; Ron Paul Dominates Both GOP And "Open" Caucuses --
Washington, DC (December 12, 2007) -- On December 7, 2007 in cities and small towns across the country, Democrat, Republican and "Open" Caucus groups formed independently online and Caucused face-to-face on National Caucus Day. The first-ever National Presidential Caucus is now history and the results are in.

Barack Obama wins over Democrat voters generating 40% of Democrat Caucus voter preferences. Obama was followed by a three-way tie for second, with John Edwards, Bill Richardson and "Undecided" each generating 20% of Democratic Caucus preferences.

On the Republican side, Ron Paul obliterated the field for the GOP generating the preference of 50% of GOP Caucuses. Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson follow, generating 33.3% and 16.6% of Republican Caucus preferences, respectively.

Among votes in Open Caucuses, Ron Paul wins with 62.5% of Open Caucus votes, followed by Barack Obama (18.75%), Fred Thompson (12.5%), and Hilary Clinton (6.25%). Source article here.........................

Ron Paul with what percentage....what was that?.......What percentage?

Good deal.

'Multiple rounds of voting were not prohibited'


What does this mean?

Originally Posted by freckles

'Multiple rounds of voting were not prohibited'


What does this mean?

However, threshold voting eliminates all but the top vote-getters. While that may have been the intention for some groups, the NPC feels obligated to recognize the efforts and opinions of all caucus goers.

It means that after or during caucusing you may change you vote. It does not mean that you get more than one vote!

Interesting.

That thing is weird. It's like Meetup.com. And the caucus' are decided by who represents 'their man' the best during a debate. How can you vote for someone when someone else is doing the debating for them? It's sounds to me more what goes on on this site and the people reading voting for who won each thread.

And shit, more than one caucus only had 1 person show up. Even NYC only got one person. And another in Philly. Three others had 0. Two only had 2 attendees. The most populated one had 79 in Philly and still had a lot of spots available.

Michael, I would be embarrassed to report on something like this. This is a joke.

They had over 200 participants across the nation. This is their first time at doing this, I am sure that all the candidates knew of this event.

I can't find the numbers of Iowa's 2004 caucus but I will later, it would be interesting to compare.

Originally Posted by michaelr

They had over 200 participants across the nation. This is their first time at doing this, I am sure that all the candidates knew of this event.

I can't find the numbers of Iowa's 2004 caucus but I will later, it would be interesting to compare.

That's like 4 votes per state. It's a worthless thing to report on. You would get more reliable results standing on a street corner. Polk County, Iowa alone had over 21,000 people vote in the 2004 D Iowa caucus.

60% of the total votes came from a Philly caucus and the WS, NC caucus. Hardly representative.