Huckabee to host candidate forum on Saturday night in Ohio

[Mr. Morden]

So apparently, while we don't have any bona fide debates on the calendar, at least three of the candidates (Gingrich, Romney, and Santorum) will be attending this Huckabee event in Ohio on Saturday night, from 8-10pm on Fox News Channel:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/huckabee-will-host-a-presidential-forum-on-fox-news/

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This will be happening simultaneously with results coming in from the Washington caucuses.  So I guess no caucus night rally (with victory and concession speeches) for the candidates?  Or maybe they'll do that immediately after the Huckabee event.

[Mr. Morden]

Wait...the caucus begins at 10 AM on Saturday. Now barring a Nevada-esque catastrophe, shouldn't results start to come in at about 4 PM (Eastern)? I guess they can't monitor results from the state though since they wouldn't be back east in time.

In 2008, there weren't really a significant number of result out until after 10pm Eastern:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=70146.60

Though, via some googling, it looks like 2008's caucuses began at 1pm Pacific / 4pm Eastern:

http://hope-for-pandora.blogspot.com.au/2008/01/washington-precinct-caucuses-2008.html

whereas this time it's 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern.  Either way, given the general fiasco that was the Washington Republican caucuses last time around, I would not necessarily expect the networks to be able to call the race by the time this Huckabee event starts at 8pm.

[Mr. Morden]

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Washington-GOP-Caucuses-What-you-need-to-know-140958623.html

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So apparently the Washington GOP will announce caucus results just as the Huckabee event is starting.