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Full Minnesota details here. Does anyone have any details about Benton County? Ron Paul won it, with Romney coming fourth....
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 07:36:39 AM EST
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is right accross the Mississippi from Saint Cloud State University, and the caucus system in Minnesota is a very low turnout affair, my guess is you had a lot of off-campus students in the part of Saint Cloud which is in Benton County caucusing for Paul in a big way.

I lived in a precinct with a big university population, in Saint Paul MN, and was precinct chair for three election cycles, of course in the other party. Two of the three cycles we had maybe 25 people show up, but in 2004, with a presidential nomination up for grabs, it was ten times that, with lots of students showing up. Kerry took the state quite handily that year, but in my precinct, he was third, with Kucinich first, just beating Edwards, who if memory serves actually had dropped out of the race just hours before commencement of the caucuses that night. Kerry a distant third.

Students can really bias the caucus numbers, especially in a mostly rural country like Benton with a marginal concentration of students at its western extremity.  

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by redstar on Wed Feb 8th, 2012 at 07:30:58 PM EST
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