Doug Schoen & Pat Caddell’s Amazing Efforts In New Hampshire

 

Last week, I wrote of the challenge facing Murdoch flacks, I mean “Democratic” consultants Doug Schoen & Pat Caddell in the New Hampshire Democratic Primary.

 

http://www.r8ny.com/blog/yoda/the_battle_of_the_irrelevants.html

 

Doug & Pat, in a hyped by Fox News op-ed in the Wall Street Journal (do I detect a pattern here?) called on New Hampshire Democrats to show their dissatisfaction with President Obama by writing-in Hillary Clinton for President.

 

"Clinton pulled off a stunning New Hampshire primary victory over Obama during the 2008 primaries. There is every reason to believe that, as a write-in candidate, she would get a substantial number of votes in the Granite State next year," Patrick Caddell and Douglas Schoen wrote

 

Last week, I explained their challenge was to beat the vote for Uncommitted versus Obama that was garnered by the over-hyped left-wing fringe group Occupy the Caucuses.

 

Doug & Pat only had to beat 2%!

 

The final results are in.

 

And they failed!

 

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-hillary-clinton-write-in-votes-new-hampshire-20120112,0,858536.story?track=rss

 

A campaign to encourage Democrats to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday appears to have fallen flat.

 

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Approximately 11% of the vote was for a write-in candidate. But most of the write-in votes cast by Democrats were for the candidates running for the Republican nomination. 

Ron Paul scored the most write-in votes for a Republican in the Democratic primary with 2,273. Mitt Romney won 1,808 write-in votes and Jon Huntsman received 1,228.

The secretary of state's office included any write-in votes that came for Clinton under the category of "scatter" — a designation that accounted for just 1.2% of the total Democratic vote.

But a survey of detailed vote counts from the state's most populated areas found that Clinton never received more than a handful. In Manchester, 31 Democrats wrote in Clinton's name. She won 17 votes in both Concord and Salem, 13 in Nashua and 11 in Portsmouth.

 

But Doug & Pat shouldn’t be too discouraged. They did something that the Pittsburg Steelers failed to do. Hillary write-ins did beat Tim Tebow write-ins.

 

In one town, Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow and Patriots quarterback Tom Brady each received a write-in vote.