Slog - Comments on Huckabee: WA Is the New USSR! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr Huckabee on Luke Esser and the Washington State Republican Party: "That is not what we do in American elections. That may be the how they used to conduct it in the old Soviet Union, but you don't just throw people's votes out." Via TPM.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:44:37 -0800 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:23:35 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle Washington? No.

Washington State GOP? Yes.

The Red Bushies hate our democracy, and our core American values of Truth, Justice, and the American Middle Class way of life.

As they prove day after day after day ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934238 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934238 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:49:59 -0800 Comment by Jason B the caucuses are a gift that just keeps on giving.

]]> Jason B http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934264 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934264 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:00:40 -0800 Comment by bohica
I have to agree with Huck on this one.

]]> bohica http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934272 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934272 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:02:49 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe @1

No shit, and WOOT!

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934273 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934273 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:02:52 -0800 Comment by Vladmire Putin Wow, here even in Russia all votes we count.

Don’t stupid Republicans know you figure out election by how candidate you select not by not vote counting. You piss off stupid westerners not vote counting.

]]> Vladmire Putin http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934281 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934281 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:08:04 -0800 Comment by COMTE Gee, Huckabee's sort of behind-the-times on this one:

"There are forty-seven states in the Union - and the Soviet of Washington."

-- U.S. Postmaster General James Farley, 1936

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934296 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934296 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:16:20 -0800 Comment by Cale I really don't understand what the GOP's problem is, why don't they just finish the damn election?

]]> Cale http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934299 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934299 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:18:18 -0800 Comment by Zander Pabeda za naroda!

(Victory to the nation.)

]]> Zander http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934313 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934313 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:28:22 -0800 Comment by Bedeviled He's exaggerating but I agree - this state is weird.

]]> Bedeviled http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934335 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934335 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:37:15 -0800 Comment by Cato the Younger Younger PULEZ!! Not counting all the votes is EXACTLY what the GOP does! Fuckabee should be proud that his party is holding up the tradition of Florida state!

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934337 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934337 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:37:30 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV If this were the Soviet Union, wouldn't we just make him disappear and be over it?

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934339 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934339 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:37:52 -0800 Comment by Vladmir Putin Yes, Napoleon. In USSR we like caucus system because we send to Siberia candidates and participants.

]]> Vladmir Putin http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934378 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934378 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:55:46 -0800 Comment by Epimetheus @7, the election is next week.

I don't quite understand why they are even declaring a "winner" of the caucus when he only got a 1/4 of the vote, it's not a winner takes all deal is it? I'd imagine they'll each get about the same number of delegates won't they? And if Huckabee can get some of those Romney supporters to vote against that COMMUNIST! McCain next week, he might come out ahead overall.

You know, if the repubs keep busy attacking each other until the convention, they'll only have a couple of months to attack Obama, and if they blow a lot of their money on each other, all the better.

]]> Epimetheus http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934405 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934405 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:05:56 -0800 Comment by Fnarf I'm pretty sure WA is a winner-take-all state for the Republicans. Or rather winner-take-half, since the other half go with the primary.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934454 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934454 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:32:15 -0800 Comment by yakoff smirnoff In Soviet Russia, Republicans caucus YOU!

]]> yakoff smirnoff http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934483 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934483 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:47:19 -0800 Comment by annie It's way more complicated than that. The caucus system awards 18 R delegates more or less proportionally (although you elect delegates--who have announced their pres preferences--directly, not within your presidential preference groups). The primary awards 19 delegates: 1 per congressional district won, for 9 of the delegates, and 10 proportional to the statewide vote.

]]> annie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934487 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934487 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:50:37 -0800 Comment by Clint I would like to request that Stranger writers refer to Huckabee as "The Reverend Mike Huckabee". Hopefully, if enough people in the media start doing it, it will catch on. It is a small gesture, but it might be enough for independent minded voters who still believe in a separation of church and state and might not realize he is a minister. This is especially important if he ends up getting the VP slot on the R ticket.

I remember as a kid always seeing Jesse Jackson's name printed with an R-E-V. precurser. Why doesn't Huckabee get the same treatment?

]]> Clint http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934494 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934494 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:53:16 -0800 Comment by Richard Pope CANDIDATE “NO SHOW” OUTPOLLS JOHN McCAIN TO WIN KING COUNTY GOP CAUCUSES!

King County has 2,548 precincts, and state GOP rules required allocation of at least twice as many elected precinct delegate positions countywide, as the number of precincts in the county. This would be 5,096. In addition, the 785 Republican PCO’s were allowed as automatic precinct delegates, without being elected, so long as they attended their precinct caucus. This would have been at least 5,881 precinct delegates that COULD have been selected on Saturday — so long as even a minimal number of GOP voters attended in each precinct.

However, only 4,195 precinct delegates were selected on Saturday. This means that at least 1,686 precinct delegate positions went to Candidate “NO SHOW” because of the absence of ANY Republican voters in well over one thousand precincts in King County.

So Candidate “NO SHOW” had a convincing victory in Saturday’s King County caucuses — at least 1,686 precinct delegates, compared with John McCain’s 1,321 precinct delegates, and Mike Huckabee’s 798 precinct delegates.

http://www.kcgop.org/documents/KingCoCaucusPrelimResults.pdf

]]> Richard Pope http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934506 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934506 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:07:21 -0800 Comment by Fnarf I stand corrected. Thanks, Annie.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934569 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934569 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:56:30 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @14 - it's winner-take-all for most GOP caucus/primary votes UNLESS they have no candidate with at least 50 percent of the vote.

Usually.

Annie's right.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934588 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934588 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:07:53 -0800 Comment by Fnarf No, Will, you're wrong (you're always wrong). Only one state had the 50% rule you mention.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934630 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934630 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:30:33 -0800 Comment by gnossos zander @8:

"Pabeda za naroda!"

shouldn't that be "pobedli"? Or does it change depending on how it's used?

]]> gnossos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934887 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934887 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:23:32 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Only one state? Strange, I heard it on Fox News ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934895 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934895 2008 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:36:11 -0800 Comment by gnossos ignore @22 pabeda/pobeda is right.

]]> gnossos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934924 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/huckabee_wa_is_the_new_ussr#c934924 2008 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:23:35 -0800