Washington GOP caucus **results thread**

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'm not from WA, but why on earth is the state so polarized?

It's bisected north-to-south by a mountain range. West of the Cascades things are (simplifying a bit) liberal West Coast-y and a lot like Northern California and coastal Oregon, politically; to the east things are (again, simplifying a bit) more like Idaho.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

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Look at the county by county results. Some of Romney's highest support is on the other side of the mountains, and some of Santorum's highest support is in bordering counties. If you look at 2008 results, it's positively schizophrenic.

Nowhere have we seen 3 candidates getting 50+ percent in a county and finishing last in another different county.

If the mountain effect were at work, we'd expect to see what we saw in Michigan - heavily Romney on the coast, heavy Santorum in the interior.

Ohhh, I thought you were talking about general left-right polarization.

Yeah, about these caucus results, I got nothing, except that the caucus is probably somehow questionable in how it's run.