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And were expected to do the past, they canceled their caucus. >> that county is washington county that didn't count because of snow. cast just eight votes for ron paul. we're not sure of the numbers. keep in mind the caucuses this year, the caucus process has not begun so well whether iowa in trouble counting votes, nevada and its trouble counting votes and turning them out in maine and another controversial this year for all advocates for trying to get rid of caulk ycus and get back to primaries ammunition this year. all white house documents are political documents and the election year bu...

Working with our republican presidential nominee to defeat barak obama in maine. maine people are tired of obama's extreme agenda. we owe many thanks and congratulations to our volunteers across the state who worked so diligently organizing these caucuses. these caucuses would not have been possible without their commitment to our republican principles and the commitment to supporting our political philosophy. it was one of those so many people turn out in maine to participate in this preference poll and participate in our caucus process. we are truly grassroots party and work as they started ...

i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. we're counting down to the results in maine and we could learn those results within minutes. our reporters are standing by, shannon travis is over at gop headquarters in maine, where we will see the results announced. mary snow is over at ron paul's headquarters in maine tonight. we also have members of the best political team, glornlgia borger, donna brazile, david frum and of course john king at the magic wall to map out all the numbers for us, where we're going from...

>> the quality of participation is very high in caucuses. the quantity is much greater in primaries. i'm already hearing enough from around the country not just iowa and nevada to know that caucuses are in trouble. and my guess is in 2016, there will be more primaries and fewer caucuses. >> but he adds that iowa will always be a caucus state because they do not want to conflict with the new hampshire primary, shep. >> shepard: there is kind of an upside to the caucus process, right? >> i think the biggest upside is cost. the fact that caucuses don't cost the taxpayers a dime. the state politic...

One thing we can see from the republican primary caucus process, negative ads can be affected. if you look at the fact, 96% of what the groups have spent to date has been on attack ads. that's about 18 million dollars. so, and i'm talking just willard's super pac. 96%. to not be able to answer this when you can see how they just took newt out with negative ads, did they really think the president was supposed to just stand there and just come after him with all of this money and he not be able to have at least an even playing field for his re-election? >> i think they wish it had, they definit...