March 13 Results

[BushKenya]

Getting this thread started for the Mississippi and Alabama Primaries and the Hawaii Caucuses.

What time do the polls close in the southern states and what time are the caucuses in Hawaii (HT & ET)?

[BushKenya]

EDIT:  The polls close in AL & MS at 7:00 pm CT (8:00 pm ET).

[Mr. Morden]

CNN results for AL, HI, MS, and AS here:

http://edition.cnn.com/election/2012/primaries/dates/20120313

AP results:

Alabama

Hawaii

Mississippi

AL and MS polls close at 7pm Central / 8pm Eastern.  Hawaii doesn't close until 8pm Hawaii time / 2am Eastern.  I don't know about American Samoa.  Haven't found any details on the caucuses there online.  But it's an hour behind Hawaii in terms of time zones, so it could be pretty late.

The Missouri caucuses actually begin tonight too, but just for one county (Barry):

http://www.mogop.org/2012stateconvention/caucuses/

[Mr. Morden]

Also, Romney has been campaigning with Jeff Foxworthy in AL and MS:

[Colbert]

another night watching CNN (2 after midnight in france)

love the american presidential elections!

[Tender Branson]

another night watching CNN (2 after midnight in france)

love the american presidential elections!

Nope. Polls close at 1 after midnight, France/Austria time.

This is also when CNN International starts broadcasting.

[Colbert]

oh, thank you i would have miss 1 hour without you !

[J. J.]

Are the American Samoa results in?

[J. J.]

Hogan Gidley, Santorum's communication director, is on Fox.  He's basically conceding AL and MS.

[Erc]

Are the American Samoa results in?

Unlike [Western] Samoa, American Samoa is on our side of the Date Line, so it's still only 4:30 AM Tuesday there at the moment.

[Torie]

No doubt everyone here already knows this, but below is a copy and past from Politico as to where team Mittens plans to rack up the margins in its attempt to carry both states:

It’s places such as Mobile where Romney will have to perform strongly if he is to pull out a victory Tuesday. His formula in both states is remarkably similar: run well along the less socially conservative Gulf Coast, clean up in the largest city and its heavily GOP suburbs (Birmingham and Jefferson County in Alabama, Jackson and Hinds, Madison and Rankin counties in Mississippi) and pull votes out of the educated population hubs in the northern part of the state (Huntsville [the other Madison County, this time in AL] in Alabama and DeSoto County, just south of Memphis, in Mississippi).

[J. J.]

Are the American Samoa results in?

Unlike [Western] Samoa, American Samoa is on our side of the Date Line, so it's still only 4:30 AM Tuesday there at the moment.

Thank you.

[True Federalist]

Also, Romney has been campaigning with Jeff Foxworthy in AL and MS:

Is it really a good sign when a comedian endorses your campaign?

[Lіef]

I'll be on an airplane from 6pm to 10pm, unfortunately. Hopefully Gingrich (or Santorum!) wins these when I've landed.

[Oakvale]

Probably for the best I have to be up early tomorrow and thus will be missing this, it'd be too depressing to see Romney carry both states.

[redcommander]

Hogan Gidley, Santorum's communication director, is on Fox.  He's basically conceding AL and MS.

[IDS Speaker Ben Kenobi]

Ahh, JJ, ever accurate on Santorum.

[J. J.]

Ahh, JJ, ever accurate on Santorum.

Just reporting, not commenting.

I would read into that that the campaign is looking at the polls and thinks a loss is likely.  Certainly, they were downplaying expectations.

[Grad Students are the Worst]

Downplaying expectations in MS & AL seems like the rational thing for Santorum's campaign to do no matter where they're at in the polls.

[Mr. Morden]

Hah, some actual details about the American Samoa caucus:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/293354/how-american-samoa-caucus-works-brian-bolduc

From 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. American Samoa Standard Time (UTC-11) tonight, Republicans on this tiny island in the Pacific Ocean will hold their caucus.

So the caucus ends at 7pm local time, which is 2am US Eastern time, same time that the Hawaii caucus ends.  Also, it's expected that perhaps as few as 50 people will show up to caucus, and so they're holding the caucus at just one location, the Toa Bar & Grill:

http://news.yahoo.com/american-samoa-gop-ready-caucus-bar-181941669.html

Local GOP chairman Victor T. Tofaeono, a superdelegate, is hopeful caucus attendees will agree to commit all nine delegates to one candidate.

[Meeker]

Don't forget that Roy Moore is on the ballot tonight - he's running for Alabama Supreme Court again.

[HockeyDude]

Didn't think I'd ever be so interested in a mid-March election in AL and MS. 

I'll go out on a limb and say Gingrich wins both of these... although I think Santorum winning both would be the most interesting outcome. 

[cavalcade]

Before we know what they say, can we all agree not to take the early exits seriously?

[IDS Speaker Ben Kenobi]

Gonna be a dogfight tonight.

[Tender Branson]

LOL, 2 1/2 hours until polls close at 1am.

Time for some sleep ?



Better solution: Energy Drinks.