I didn’t see much MSM media coverage of it, but Louisiana Republicans held their caucus Tuesday night. I suspect the lack of coverage is due to the complexity of Louisiana’s arcane procedure, but the caucus was to select delegates to conventions which will ultimately pick 21 delegates.
(If any candidate receives a majority of the vote for the 9 February primary, they pick up 20 delegates in addition to any of the 21 coming from the caucus procedure. Otherwise 20 delegates go to the national convention “uncommitted”.)
Anyway, one might ask, “who won?” The answer appears to be just as complicated as the delegate selection process:
Of those 105 delegates chosen Tuesday, McCain received roughly 30, more than any other named candidate. But “uncommitted pro-life” received twice that, about 70 delegates. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) each received a few delegates as well, but state officials are still calculating the exact number each candidate received because so many provisional ballots were cast. Caucusgoers had to register as Republicans by Nov. 30 in order to participate in the process but a number of voters—many of whom were Paul supporters—showed up and cast provisional ballots since questions remained over whether they had met this requirement.
You would have thought that a major hurricane would have been enough to wash away such silliness. However, Gallic bureaucracy apparently has the resilience one would only expect to find among cockroaches.
Meanwhile, McCain, Fred-heads, Ron Paulistas, and folks looking for the Second Coming of Ronald Reagan are all claiming victory.