Kansas Meadowlark: Kansas GOP Presidential Caucus

Feb 9, 2008

Kansas GOP Presidential Caucus:
Photo Essay of Caucus at Blue Valley Northwest High School in Overland Park

Long lines were also inside. With so many in attendance, speeches were reduced from 10 minutes to 2 minutes
and two sessions were held to accommodate the large crowd. Here Republican voters wait for the second session.

The KS GOP Caucus was "closed" to Republicans registered to vote on Jan 25, 2008.
Check-in required Republicans to show a photo ID, and names were validated against
a list of registered Republican voters from the Kansas Secretary of State.

The audience waits patiently for the speeches to begin. A few John McCain signs can be seen in the audience.

Results:

Not all counties had their own caucus. Three counties (Douglas, Geary, Greenwood) reported results in two congressional districts.

Observations:

Huckabee received 67.4% of the ballots in District 4, 62.5% of District 1, 56.0% of District 2, and 52.6% of District 3.
John McCain carried Bob Dole's caucus site in Russell County, and tied in a nearby caucus site in Trego County.
Ron Paul beat John McCain at three caucus sites: Brown County (Paul 28, McCain 11), Gray County (Paul 12, McCain 9), and Pottawatomie County (Paul 60, McCain 46)
Saline County had 38% of the ballots cast for Rudy Giuliani, with more votes (13) than Johnson County (10).
Only Republicans registered to vote on Jan 25, 2008 were eligible to vote in the Republican Caucus. On Jan 25 the official number of Republicans in Kansas was 743,656 with 434,019 Democrats on that day. The numbers shown above from Saturday say there are 1097 fewer Republicans in Kansas since Jan 25, with 1710 fewer Democrats over the same time period. Kansas has a problem of about 190,000 "phantom" voters on the statewide list, which was not a problem at the Republican caucus since IDs were required at check-in.