Idaho Presidential Primary Results
May 27th, 2008Here are Idaho presidential primary results from the Secretary of State’s page. Idaho Republican rules mean that Ron Paul will get 4 delegates. The Democratic primary is just a beauty contest, since Democratic delegates were chosen earlier by caucus.
The Libertarian and Constitution Parties are also entitled to their own primaries in Idaho, but neither party chose to participate. In any event, Idaho won’t print up a primary ballot for any party if that party has no contests for any office. Although both minor parties are nominating candidates, the single candidate who filed in each race is deemed to have won the primary.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Didn’t the Dems hold a caucus a few months ago?
May 27th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Mr. Winger said: “Democratic primary is just a beauty contest, since Democratic delegates were chosen earlier by caucus.” He answered your question before you asked it my friend. Cheers!
May 27th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Guess that the Idaho Constitution Party had more leeway in this process than the Nebraska Party, which held their primary after the Constitution Party Convention.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:26 am
I apologize to Austin Cassidy. This post was amended after his comment was made, and I should have made that clear. When Austin made that comment, he was right!
May 28th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Idaho is more evidence of Obama’s caucus advantage. He won Idaho’s caucus 79-17 (!) but won the primary 56-38. That’s a 44-point swing to Clinton. Primary turnout was 43,000 vs. 21,000 for the caucus. Clinton also enjoyed caucus-to-primary swings of 32 in Washington, 34 in Nebraska, and 20 in Texas.
http://www.sos.idaho.gov/elect/results/enr/statewide_total.html
May 28th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
I thought that Marvin Pro-Life Richardson was a Republican US Senate candidate.
May 28th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
With Ron Paul gaining additional delegates in some of
these late primaries, does anyone know what is his
current total? Not that it matters for the nomination.
It would be interesting seeing in which states he has
managed to win some delegates.