If I were a Republican official in MN, I would be horrified.

[RandySF]

Some precinct captain running a caucus hand tabulated the vote count in Minnesota. If that's the case everywhere, we may see another f---ed up state caucus.

[Old and In the Way]

1. There's a common theme running in these 2012 state Republican caucuses and primaries.

Incompetence.

[grantcart]

2. to be followed by resignations

[spanone]

3. santorum is leading the pack in mn

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Too bad BachKKKman didn't last long enough to compete

in her "home" state after losing her birth state!

[customerserviceguy]

6. Paws must really be kicking himself in the hindquarters tonight

for pulling out early. He knows he would have done better than Frothy in Minnesota.

[liberalhistorian]

12. Yes, but he probably would have bombed

in the other states well before he even got to Minnesota! At least he recognized that and decided to spare himself the humiliation. He wasn't even popular in Minnesota and I think he knew it.

[dflprincess]

13. Poor Timmy, he's been campaigning for Romney

in his quest to be vice-president. Doesn't look like this will be his year for that either.

[rurallib]

5. didn't the state chair just resign

stole some money or something?

[dflprincess]

11. He left the party heavily in debt

there have been many snarky remarks from those of us who don't care for Fat Tony about what he might have done with the money but, I don't think there is any real evidence (or nothing made public) that he did anything other than mismanage things.

[LynneSin]

7. To be honest, I trust hand-counting more than I trust electronic balloting.

At least you paper trail with the hand count - provided that it's not one person in a room counting by himself sitting next to a shredder.

[RandySF]

8. I didn't see any ballots.

I saw a pad of lined paper with a handwritten tabulation.

[dflprincess]

9. The Minnesota Republican party was hijacked by the extreme wingnuts years before they took over the

national party. Prominent - mostly sane Republicans like former Governor Arne Carlson and former Senator Dave Durenberger now consider themselve independents. In 2004 when former governor Elmer L. Anderson (also a Republican) died in his 90s there was more wailing from the DFL than the Republicans. Of course, he died right after the 2004 election where he had it clear that he would be voting for Kerry & he had refused to give Timmy Pawlenty his blessing when Timmy first ran for governor.

I'm surprised they don't think Santorum is "too liberal".

[Brickbat]

10. Not only that, but some precincts are voting to not support the definition of marriage amendment

that MN will vote on in the fall. Republican precincts! I'm serious! It's awesome.