By the time this hits the presses, the New Hampshire Primary will just another "yesterdays news" item. Since the Northeast is traditionally known as conservative Democrat territory, Huckabee stood little chance in garnering much of a support base -- However, placing third is truly a remarkable achievement.
Romney has a summer home there, (and in Michigan), and McCain has brand recognition, so their places were foregone conclusions. Less impressive was the showing by Giuliani...losing ground in both New Hampshire as well as the National Polls.
Let's talk a little about the Voting/Election Process for Washington State. If, like me, you are wondering what to do to support your candidate come caucus time, here is some information for you to chew on:
Participating in Caucuses and Conventions
Getting to Your Republican Precinct Caucus
Caucuses will be held on Saturday, February 9th, 2008, at 1:00 p.m.
What are precincts?
- Each legislative district is then broken down further into smaller areas called precincts.
- Your precinct number may look like this (Example: 02-034) which means you’re in the 2nd district, 34th precinct.
How do I know what precinct I live in?
- The quickest and easiest way to find out is to check your voter registration card.
- If you can’t find your registration card, call either your GOP district leader or county party headquarters, and ask which precinct you live in. Attached is a list of phone numbers for each county GOP HQ, and each GOP county chairperson.
How do I find out where the caucuses are meeting?
Close to the caucuses, you should contact your county chairperson and ask where your caucus meeting is going to take place. Usually it will be in a school or some other public building, like a fire station or library, (or even someone’s house) and it will start at 1 p.m., so be about a half hour early so you can get signed in.
What Happens at the Caucus
Where is my precinct?
With more than one precinct in the same building, each table will probably have a piece of paper on it somewhere indicating which precinct is at that table. Just sit down at the table that has your precinct number on it, even if you’re the only one there.
OK, now what?
- All your time leading up until 2 p.m. will be spent primarily on voting on specific aspects of the party platform. (Party Platform—a statement of where a political party stands on each major issue of the day.)
- Most likely you’ll simply have papers to fill out with different choices for what you want represented in the party’s platform for each issue. For example, you’ll be able to choose whether the Republican Party will be pro-tax or anti-tax, and things like that.
- If you’re not sure about what you’re doing, ask your PCO (who will be in charge of things, if he/she is there), or whoever is in charge of your table, or ask the PCO at another table if no one at your table can help you, or you by chance happen to be the only one from your precinct actually present.
- From 2 p.m. on, you and the people at your table will elect certain people to go as delegates to the county convention. (Delegates commit to attend the county convention and there nominate local candidates and elect delegates to the state convention) The paperwork provided will inform you as to how many delegates you can elect from your precinct.
- Any voter from the precinct can be a delegate, whether he/she is actually at the caucus or not.
- First, delegates will be nominated. You can volunteer to be a delegate, and you will represent the Presidential candidate of your choice (Mike Huckabee).
- You do not have to say which Presidential candidate you want, but you do want to make sure any delegates you elect are also for your candidate (Mike Huckabee) as well.
- In short, this is where we can win.
- As I mentioned earlier, the delegates elected at the caucuses will attend the county convention later in the year, and they will choose delegates to go to the state convention.
- At the state convention, the delegates all vote on which candidate they want to nominate for President. The candidate who gets the most votes gets all 11 of
- The Presidential candidate who wins the most delegates will be the official nominee for the Republican Party, and will face off against the Democrat nominee in the general election in November 2008.
- If you want Mike Huckabee to win, you must make sure you vote for delegates in your precinct who are also for him, so they can represent him at your county convention. Strongly consider becoming a delegate yourself.
Check these websites:
http://www.wsrp.org/default.aspx
http://www.piercegop.org/index.htm
Let’s win this state for Mike Huckabee!!
I will post a chart of the Counties and their Contact information to the GOP leaders for your viewing tomorrow...
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