On Saturday, Maine’s Republican Party held a press conference to announce that Mitt Romney had bested Ron Paul in the 2012 precinct caucuses. It was breaking news, another victory in the Romney comeback “narrative” that started with CPAC’s straw poll.
It might have been wrong.
According to the latest tally, which lacks results from 98 of 600 precincts, Romney only leads Paul by 194 votes. Paul, who didn’t concede on election night, is still talking up an upset; Paul supporters are organizing on Facebook to GOTV for the final caucuses. The biggest batch of votes will come from Washington County, which has around 6000 Republican voters, and which opted to delay its vote for fear of snow and safety risks. I talked to Washington County GOP Chairman Chris Gardner about the whole mess.
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