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RBInMaine

(13,570 posts)
Sun Mar 6, 2016, 10:11 PM Mar 2016

46,000 people participated in the Maine caucus today, a record.

Bernie did win big, and we have to credit much of the exceedingly large turnout to the many new and less frequent voters who mostly came out for him, but at the same time Hillary did well in absentee ballots especially, contributed to this, and will receive a share of the state's delegates.

The R's were crowing about their 18,000 yesterday being so huge. Ours was WAY bigger. It does bode well for the party.

Remember, if you look online and see a "vote count" in the low thousands, that is delegates to the state convention, not the raw vote totals.

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46,000 people participated in the Maine caucus today, a record. (Original Post) RBInMaine Mar 2016 OP
Fantastic UMTerp01 Mar 2016 #1
6-14 BS delegates ? Her Sister Mar 2016 #2
That's incomplete 72DejaVu Mar 2016 #4
Anytime turnout is up is good book_worm Mar 2016 #3
46,000 looks high compared to actual returns. Do you have a link? 33taw Mar 2016 #5
Are you seeing #'s in the low thousands? If so that is state convention delegates, not raw vote. RBInMaine Mar 2016 #6
LOL even when she loses she wins..... Historic NY Mar 2016 #7
I guess you didn't bother to read my post. RBInMaine Mar 2016 #8
 

UMTerp01

(1,048 posts)
1. Fantastic
Sun Mar 6, 2016, 10:16 PM
Mar 2016

Congrats to Bernie on his Maine win and to those numbers. Hoping that as the crazy gets more obvious in the Repubs it will energize Dems in November.

book_worm

(15,951 posts)
3. Anytime turnout is up is good
Sun Mar 6, 2016, 10:20 PM
Mar 2016

this time it benefited Bernie. Good job to all the HRC supporters in Maine.

 

RBInMaine

(13,570 posts)
6. Are you seeing #'s in the low thousands? If so that is state convention delegates, not raw vote.
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 12:13 AM
Mar 2016

Bangor Daily News (one of the major Maine papers) says the state party is reporting about 46,000, a record. At my polling place we had a record including absentee ballots.

See Here: http://bangordailynews.com/story/live-maine-democrats-vote-in-presidential-caucuses/

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