Oh Bloody Hell
ChrisB on Jan 23 2008 at 10:07 pm | Filed under: Chris' Page, Election 2008
Really Louisiana, really?!
A veteran of Louisiana state campaigns offers this ironic suggestion about last night’s Louisiana GOP primary — Fred Thompson won, or would have done well, had he not dropped out hours earlier.
The veteran says that Fred would have picked up all 47 of the states delegates. Putting him ahead of McCain and barely trailing Romney.
As Ace notes however,
Well, with all due respect: Running an organization which was apparently clueless to this fact and thus dropping out hours before one’s first actual win seems to indicate the opposite– he made the right choice. I hate to be a dick about this, but a politician should have a basic competence at politics, for crying out loud
That all being said, this is setting off my too good to be true alarm, so maybe Lance can shed some more light on this.
UPDATE: McCain won the Louisiana caucus according to AFP. Here’s an update to the original story. Here’s a previous post somewhat explaining the process. Like everything in Louisiana, it’s overly complicated. From what I can gather, Louisiana gets around any penalties for having their primary/caucus early because they only voted on who would vote for the delegates who would vote for the presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention. Make sense now? Yeah, me neither. Anyway, they seem to vote on slates or some such, so pro-life uncommitted came in first, McCain second, Paul third, and Romney 4th. I have little idea what that means.
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No clue. My association with Republican Party politics is essentially nil. I have no idea what is going on here within the party. If I had known that to be true I probably would have e-mailed Jon and let him know.
I’ll tell you how clueless I am. I had no idea the primary was last night. The first Presidential ad I saw would have been the first, though that has to do with nobody spending any money to run here.
Umm … why didn’t they vote for him anyway? If he only dropped out “hours earlier” then isn’t it likely that a bunch of people would not have heard and still voted for Fred?
I don’t know. Maybe it’s just the skeptic in me. Something doesn’t seem right though.
I think, like much of everything in Louisiana, it’s an overly complicated process. I’m just guessing here, but the primary is not officially till later, and they somehow have it earlier and don’t get punished for it.
Does this make sense to anyone?
C’mon, dontcha get it? Pro-life uncommitted? Fred Thompson? Aheh.