CNN is reporting Mitt Romney wins Minnesota’s nonbinding Republican presidential caucus. And as you already know, BARACK OBAMA WINS!
But lets get some action in the comments about your precincts, how it went etc.
We have already from reader Lojasmo:
Turnout in my caucus site in Olmsted county (1st CD) was three times that of 2004.
Obama 2:1 in Olmsted.
From Skyblue:
Insanity. Almost a 2 mile line to get into the middle school parking lot–a 45 minute wait. Packed rooms. Never seen it like this before. Obama over Clinton by almost a 4:1 ratio.
Kollege Kid:
St Peter: Obama 2:1
ABSURD turnout.
Justin:
My district (SD 62 W2 P2) went 6:1 for obama. Of the ~2200 voters in the district, 780 of them were at the caucus. Crazy.
For the Sentate, franken got 32%, Jack Nelson-Palmayer 55%, and the rest split between undecided and Ciresi.. With those results I should note that Jack lives in the precinct, came and spoke at the caucus, and the precinct is pretty much the bluest in the state (Seward Neighborhood, Minneapolis).
Thomas:
Was also at 62 12-1 and Obama 70%, Clinton 27%, rest 3%.
Franken outnumbered JNP but not by much, maybe 60/40. Ciresi almost nothing…
And like I said about my caucus, 563 votes, 476 for Obama, 81 for Hillary, vast majority of SD delegates for Franken (I’d guess at 75%)
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does anyone know a place online to track the Senate results? I tried the SOS’s site, nothing doing there. I’m out of state and getting desparate to know what happened.
Senate results are a lot harder to quantify, as named subcaucus reporting comes out you’ll get a sense, but not much of one.
Like I said in my precinct I’d say about 25 delegates were Franken supporters, but none of them had to subcaucus. Sean
SD59 Ward 1 Pct 3 NE Mpls, 523 registered, 490 voted, 2-1 for Obama 340-150. 191 people stayed to caucus, many, many 1st timers. Very exciting for the DFL and bad news for the GOP in MN.
Murray County had 113 people, which is about 4 times the turnout of past caucuses. Final results were 63 Clinton, 46 Obama, 2 Edwards, and 2 Kucinich.
Nobody’s talking about the congressional races, but in Senate District 32 we had an unbelievable turnout….2500?. I my precinct (22) we filled our 17 delegate spots plus alternates and pretty much was a Madia for Congress group…nobody even brought up the other congressional candidates and hardly a word said about Senate. President was a solid 66% for Obama out of 90 votes. The caucus system rocks!
SD 64A (Erin Murphy, south of 94, bordering Minneapolis along the Mississippi), W4-5. 131 Obama, 69 Clinton. We didnt do any poll or anything for Senate but 8 of us were students of Jacks from St Thomas that is 8 out of 29 for sure.
From the Marcy Holmes Neighborhood near the U of M, My guess is that Obama walked away handedly with a victory. No numbers because I wasn’t there when they counted the ballots, but I saw probably 2/3 wearing Obama stickers, and none wearing Clinton stickers
Oh and as for turnout, one of the lines, at its longest into Longfellow Junior High was from the school (entrance on grand) all the back to Summit and a block down that. And there was a second line about half as long. It was my first time but apparently, there had never been a line ever before. We were there til 9 because we didnt start until 7:45 or so waiting for the line to go away so everyone could participate. It was crazy, about 80 people stayed to caucus.
Mad props to Sean, who did a great job as a Caucus Chair tonight!
In 2004, I was astonished when 362 people came to DFL precinct caucuses. This year, we nearly quadrupled that result - 1,272 citizens caucused as Democrats in Chisago County tonight - almost twice the turnout of the GOP. Presidential votes in Chisago County were: Obama 659, Clinton 587, Others/Uncommitted 28.
I knew about 1/3 to 1/2 of the faces in most rooms I visited. It was great seeing all those new caucus-goers. It was nearly pandemonium at 6:45 in Chisago Lakes High School. Nearly 200 people crammed into the small cafeteria in the Taylors Falls Elementary School.
in SD 61 (phillips in minneapolis) we had a walking sub-caucus battle for us senate. franken got 5 pledged delegates, nelson-pallmeyer got 5. it was a tough fight.
for turnout, reportedly, in 2006, 6 people were in attendance. i think over 200 voted there tonight.
many non-english speaking immigrants voted. english-only caucuses shut a lot of people out in my neighborhood.
Random thoughts:
*Looks like I was right, the DFL decided not to do a straw poll of the Senate race.
*Is anybody from the 8th Congressional District reading this? How were the Senate candidates doing up there?
*So much for the MPR/UM poll.
*According to the latest returns (which, as of this writing, are incomplete) the turnout on both sides is heavily metro-centric. According to the Star-Tribune’s latest figures, turnout overall on the DFL side is over three times higher than on the GOP side!
By region: DFL:
Metro: 140,506
Central: 18,131
Northeast: 8,997
Northwest: 5,007
Southern: 18,156
Total: 190,797
That’s 73% of the votes coming from the metro area.
On the GOP side:
Metro: 34,208
Central: 10,762
Northeast: 2,019
Northwest: 2,429
Southern: 9,267
Total: 58,685
Roughly 58% from the metro area.
There are still some rural precincts that haven’t reported any numbers yet, so we’ll see if things even out slightly.
Turnout was probably 350% of 2004. Traffic backed up for blocks and blocks trying to get to the caucus. Obama took it by about 65-35. An amazing night. Amazing what seven years of Dubya does for motivation.
Turn-out in 64 (St. Paul) was astonishing, but it sounds like the rest of the state was the same. We decided to move the Macalester Precinct to the Mac Campus - they had over 900 people in that precinct alone. We had about 2000 more people in 64A than we did in all of 64 in 2004 and I’m not sure what the 64B numbers are yet. The other amazing thing was the high turnout from the University of St. Thomas!!! Yeah Tommies! (and Yeah Scots!)
To anyone from 64 reading this, thank you so much for your enthusiasm and patience!
Go Dems! Let’s keep this enthusiasm up through the November.
Ok in Eagan,
3077 caucus attendees almost 5 times the alltime record!!! the cars waiting to get in stretched for over 3 miles!!!
Obama about 2100
Hillary about 970
Straw poll Franken over Ceresi by 3-1 margin. Wow!
Full post over at my blog but real quickly here: unreal turnout in Savage. Yes, Savage, which is in HD 35B which went for Kennedy in ‘06 and SD 35 which didn’t even field a State Senate candidate in ‘06. We ran out of sign-in forms, ballots and parking spaces.
In SD 35, the turnout for DFLers was 2544. For the GOP, 1418.
A thousand more DFLers than Republicans! This, in a district where I’ve heard stories of Democrats getting spit-on in parades as recently as two years ago.
Overwhelmingly for Obama, too.
I’m pleased that both Minnesota parties went with the best candidate, not the establishment candidate. This is a sign that Minnesota independent politics, where we actually use our brains, is alive and well.
Obama is exciting. He may not have the resume, but he is the guy who appears to cross party lines, provide leadership, and you have to admit reminds a Minnesota voter of Wellstone in his own special way. Obama embodies all that is good about Democrats who are not in the Clinton inner-circle.
Romney is the old-fashioned Republican, pre the religious right movement. He believes Government’s responsiblity is to create a level playing field, not ensure everyone has the same outcome. He favors the boring nuts-and-bolts issues of running a country over fervent religious platforms. He passed universal healthcare as a Governor when it wasn’t a popular thing to do as a Republican.
I don’t know who will be on the ticket in November, but I’m proud that Minnesota used their traditional common sense last night.
There were over 500 people voting at Bryant lake bowl, and they didn’t work through the line that was there by 8:00 PM until close to 9. According to the SOS website, it went around 4:1 for Obama. We seem to have an inspiring Senator here, one who doesn’t just turn out the same old groups.
Destroys?
Is that the way we’re talking about other Democratic candidates now?
In SD-42, southern Minnetonka and all of Eden Prairie, GOPers turned out a thousand, while the DFL turned out FOUR THOUSAND!!!
Four to one, in the heart of the beast!!!
The electorate has woken, and observed the emporer wears no clothes.
Check this out. as I mentioned we had 3077 DFL caucus goers in Eagan. The Republicans? 970! Over three times the republicans in the home of Pawlenty, Awada, Repya and Brodkorb! A change is in the wind…..
I was working SD59 caucus prep all week - NE and SE Minneapolis including the U of M. One U of M caucus had over 1000 participants, and roughly 11,000 democrats cast ballots in our Sentae District alone. My precinct (1-6), usually among the busiest in the district went from about 130 in ‘04 to 460 this year. Incredible! Hi, Sean & Rick
Mrs. Pissy.
Get over it. if you can find a more accurate superlative for winning by 35% feel free to share it. Sean
SD39 (DFL) had over 3000 people show up. The traffic backed up onto Hwy 52 from the exit onto 80th Street to well north of 70th Street. The previous “high water” mark for attendance was around 750 (2004). In SD37 (DFL), you couldn’t get into the parking lot at Apple Valley High School if you got there after 6 pm. I talked with a few people who caucused in ‘68, they said this year was far more populated.
In Olmsted County, Democrats once again had a 2 to 1 ratio over Republicans. The gap bewteen Democrats and Republicans in Olmsted County has indeed closed since 2000, with an edge given to the DFL come November.
It was reported that 4,691 DFLers caucused over 2,000 MNGOPers. Way more than the 1,380 Olmsted Co. DFLers who attended in 2004, the last presidential election.
A little more than 2,000 people attended GOP caucuses, more than twice as many people as attended in 2004.
There were 2 locations for the DFL to caucus and both locations were packed with people, more than half were “FIRST TIMERS”!!!
In SD 62 W9 P6 (South Minneapolis) we had about 300 people go 4:1 for Obama. About 70% of the delegates were for Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, a few Franken, one Ciresi, and 5 or so undecided.
I really like how if you look at the vote totals in MN, Clinton has barely over 30% on the Democratic side, but still has more votes than all of the Republicans combined. Things really aren’t looking good for the Minnesota Republicans.
SD 60, Ward 13, Precinct 5 in the Fulton neighborhood of Minneapolis had 787 people attend caucus! Compare that to previous record of around 260 people. Somewhere more than 600 were first time caucus goers. Of those attending, 557 voted for Obama and 208 for Clinton.
Miss Pissy…
I agree….
A Ralph Nader type could walk into the race and “Destroy” as well.
Obama seems to think I’d have no problem voting for him as a default? Really? He better do more than “Hope”
60:10:1, Obama:500, Clinton:128
Boo yah!
I agree with Miss P and Curt. There are any number of words Sean could have used, but he chose “destroy” — sounds like that’s what you want to do. C’mon. As if Obama is so superior.
Sherri and Miss P
I don’t get these guys…
They all but throw their panties on the stage (a couple of ‘em here may have !!) over a speech some 26 year old (white guy) writes. Fine.. inspirational… full of hope.. empowering…lifting… generational…
If they are so confident in their selection, why all the Hillary bashing?? Do we take her out and stone her if Obama wins the nomination? Would that give you a boner big boys??
She has done more for this party and this country than ANYONE posting on this site ever will … show some respect.
Hillary is a war monger and half a step away from Bush. She is as bought and paid for by major financial and businesses interests as any Republican you can name. If that is what you define as “doing more for the party” you are a funny kind of Democrat.
Obama.. the campaign of hope (and hate apparently)
Ah the last refuge of the person with no content. Claim your opponents are simply hateful. The fact that most of the nasty stuff people claim about Hillary happens to be true can then be ignored.
Go ahead Curt, support a corrupt, secretive woman who didn’t have the judgment to oppose the invasion of another country simply because she is the wife of the last Democratic President and see where that gets the party.
People are rightfully upset that she is the front runner and if that upsets you maybe you should try presenting so reasons she is the best candidate rather than whining.
Sorry Pal…
I didn’t know Obama supporters are my “opponents”
(BTW… pretty hateful posting KH.. kinda proves my point)
just fyi, i voted for obama at my caucus. but i wavered back and forth until the end. even after. i think both these candidates have strengths and weaknesses, and i support them both. i just dohn’t understand the hillary bashing. you speak of her the way nader spoke of gore in 2000 - that there was no difference between gore and bush. oh yeah?back then, many considered gore the “establishement” candidate, entrenched, etc. most of those peopole had not really adequately studied his background and who he is. many of the people against him them have now woken up and revere him. i am just saying there is no need to trash hillary if you support obama. don’tjust go with these impulsive emotions. hillary went to work for the children’s defense fund during law school, not to some high priced law firm like RKMC, Dorsey, or another like the big downtown law firms we have in mpls. this is where most current graduates go to work. nothing wrong with it, but she didn’t. she knocked on doors in poor neighborhoods in d.c. working on health issues. she was involved in developing programs for foster kids who were turning 18 and aging out of foster care - a good thing, no? there’s more, I won’t belabor it. she mayhave voted to authorize force in iraq, yes - but so did John Edwards (my first choice), so did John Kerry, and many others. I may not agree with that vote, but ya know, Obama didn’t have to actually have to cast a vote. Just…give credit where credit is due. Just because she is the opponenent, you don’t have to demonize her the way the republicans do.
Sorry about my typing and typos in this, I am on a weird laptop.
Thanks for the thoughtfull post Sherri..
Hopefully KH won’t come back to “kick-my-ass” some more… but this exaggerated hatred is “right” out of the RNC’s playbook. I’m staying with Hillary.