Sunday, February 12, 2012

Maine Caucuses

Maine held their GOP caucuses during the last week and announced the results yesterday. Nearly final results are in - 84% of precincts reporting. Mitt Romney holds a narrow lead, with Ron Paul coming in second. Here are the results
39% Romney
36% Paul
18% Santorum
06% Gingrich
01% Other
Understand that turnout for the Maine caucuses was quite small: all of 5600 people showed up in the precincts reporting. That is a very small proportion of the 1.3 million residents, less than 0.5% of the populace.