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Maine: Ron Paul

Thu, 09/04/2008 - 09:48

In roll call, 20 of 21 go for McCain

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Twenty of Maine’s 21 delegates to the Republican National Convention voted for John McCain in the roll call vote last night.

Patrick Eisenhart attended the convention in support of Ron Paul. Since Paul’s name was not put in nomination, he did not vote.

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Sat, 05/03/2008 - 17:55

Convention update 6 p.m.

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

The lights are on and almost everyone has left. The convention is over.

It’s been a busy – but productive -- two days for the Republican Party.

In these two days, Republicans from across the state elected delegates to the state convention, elected state committee members, debated their platform and heard from all the major candidates. They also heard from Mitt Romney and Cal Thomas.

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Sat, 05/03/2008 - 09:28

Convention update: 10:30 a.m.

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

The convention has just reconvened after the two districts split up to elect delegates.

After opening proceedings U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe will speak soon, and then the delegates will elect the at-large national delegates. At lunchtime they will take up the platform – there are about 25 amendments to take up.

A Ron Paul video will also be shown.

Fox News contributor Cal Thomas will be speaking later.

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Fri, 05/02/2008 - 18:08

Lindell: Finks and Cohen don’t represent Paul campaign

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Ken Lindell, coordinator of the Maine Ron Paul campaign, said the two men removed from the Maine Republican Convention earlier did not represent the campaign, although both said earlier that they were Paul supporters.

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Fri, 05/02/2008 - 13:46

Security steps in after floor interruption

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Security has removed two men, both Ron Paul supporters, from the Maine Republican Convention.

Mark Finks of Falmouth said his rights were being violated when he was denied a chance to raise “a routine, procedural objection” on the convention floor.

He was an alternate and said he had been moved into a delegate slot, but officials told him he was an alternate and convention rules prohibited him from speaking. Seeing no microphone for people on the floor, he grabbed the microphone in front of the podium.

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Tue, 04/29/2008 - 20:41

Paul delegates promise a presence at state convention

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Check PolitickerME.com throughout the week for more information on the convention

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Thu, 02/14/2008 - 14:20

R's and D's: Who won what county

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Check out this map of caucus results, broken down by county.

Blue balloons represent the Democratic winners of the respective county. Dark blue bubbles represent Barack Obama, light blue bubbles represent Hillary Clinton.

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Sun, 02/03/2008 - 16:23

Paul brings new faces to Maine caucuses

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Networking among the who’s-who atmosphere of “The Maine Event” in Portland, where Republicans gathered after the caucus, were two high school students.

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Sun, 02/03/2008 - 12:35

McCain takes Washington County

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

While most of the state pulled for Mitt Romney yesterday, John McCain won in Washington County.

McCain got 51 votes in the county, Romney got 40, and Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee got eight votes apiece. There were 113 voters.

McCain got most of his votes in Calais and Perry, the two towns to have more than 10 voters show up.

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Sat, 02/02/2008 - 22:12

Romney wins

By Politicker Staff

Mitt Romney easily won the Maine Republican caucus today, defeating John McCain by a 52%-22% margin. Ron Paul finished a close third with 19% and Mike Huckabee received just 5% of the vote. Paul had spent considerable time in Maine and was clearly looking for an upset victory.

Today the people of Maine joined those from across the nation in casting their vote for conservative change in Washington,” Romney said in a statement after his victory.

Final Tally:

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