The GOP/military industrial complex makes its voice heard...

Ron Paul has not dropped out of contention; the article is incorrect.

This is Mr. Romney's home state and this level of governmental confusion should give voters a wake up call. Although this candidate won the public primary decisively he could not get his slate of delegates elected. Apparently money does not buy everything. The Republican State Committee's concerns show other problems. The procedures to check if you were a Republican at the caucus were faulty. Now this is the voter ID constituency and they failed miserably as any model to follow. Now they want to go in reverse by fiat. This raises questions if they fully understand how to run things. In contrast the Democratic Party ran a smooth caucus system knowing there were no renegades having been vetted by savvy Party activists. Further there is no provisional balloting. If you are not on the rolls as a registered Democrat you could not vote for any candidate. Also registration as a Party Member had to be as of February 15th. The caucuses are small enough and the time frames adequate enough to let those who showed up to have a reasonable idea who they were casting their votes for. I have started a blog featuring the road to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. in September. Although it may hold more interest for Democrats, it may help others understand the process and background doings that go into making our democracy work: www.oetkb.wordpress.com. Replies are welcome but destructive language, ad hominem attacks, and trolling will be monitored accordingly.

Not for a second ballot at the convention. That is a rather dubious outcome but it is there. The language is "suspended his campaign," not I am no longer a candidate.

There is no surprise in this story, there's not even any news. We're dealing with Mitt Romney and his handlers here. This is the way they operate, be forewarned. They just push out the little guys to gain whatever they want. In this instance, they're muffling the process of basic democracy and it's despicable.

Another no news article from the Globe.

I think that you must be kidding. You honestly don't think that the Romney campaign's efforts to undo their own party's caucus outcome is not newsworthy? He ran this state a while back and the Republicans who know him best don't want him. He doesn't like that and is striking back. It may not be news that you like, but it is newsworthy.

Hmmm .. the Romney loyalist tactics are amusingly similar to the recent accounts of Putin's reclamation of the Russia top-job. Elections are critical to PR, but it's the results that count ... of course they need be the PREFERRED results.

What's the beef? This is Romney's country. He bought it!

What's new? The GOP specializes in preventing voters from voting. It figures, as they have no real policies to offer...except, of course, their standard get-elected-and-loot-the-Nation's-wealth. (Then wait for a Democrat to clean up their mess and start clamoring to get back in office and do it again.)

Gotta love the GOP.

I could have sworn that Romney won the primary election here so of course we want him to send more of his representatives to the convention. After all he will be running against Obama in November, not Ron Paul.

The Republican Party could have made the primary mean something, but instead it's more like a straw poll. Romney won the straw poll, but obviously his supporters weren't enthusiastic enough to show up at the caucuses.

An important story that won't get much play because we'd all rather read about Ann Romney being insulted by Hilary Rosen than discuss fiddling with caucus results.