How Did the Caucuses Go Last Time?
It was Romney's race in 2008 — at least in Hopkins and most of Minnesota.
Going in to tonight’s caucuses, Mitt Romney lags a couple points behind Rick Santorum, according to Public Policy Polling analysis conducted Saturday. Yet Minnesota was good to the Republican frontrunner in 2008.
Romney led the Republican pack with 41.4 percent of the vote in the presidential preference ballot conducted at the 2008 caucuses. He also defeated eventual nominee John McCain in Hopkins and in Senate District 44.
With the Republican race in Minnesota a statistical dead heat—Santorum's two-point lead is within the ±4.8 percent margin of error—here’s a look at how things shook out the last time Minnesotans headed to the caucuses.
Republican
| Hopkins | Senate District 44 | Minnesota | |
| Mike Huckabee | 32 | 147 | 12,493 |
| Alan Keyes | 0 | 0 | 368 |
| John McCain | 63 | 316 | 13,826 |
| Ron Paul | 44 | 184 | 9,852 |
| Mitt Romney | 90 | 447 | 25,990 |
| Write-in | 0 | 11 | 299 |
DFL
| Hopkins | Senate District 44 | Minnesota | |
| Joe Biden | 2 | 4 | 129 |
| Hillary Clinton | 270 | 2,022 | 68,994 |
| Chris Dodd | 0 | 0 | 77 |
| John Edwards | 6 | 26 | 985 |
| Dennis Kucinich | 1 | 15 | 361 |
| Frank Lynch | 0 | 2 | 17 |
| Barack Obama | 655 | 4,214 | 142,109 |
| Bill Richardson | 1 | 5 | 82 |
| Uncommitted | 7 | 30 | 1,312 |
Green Party
| Senate District 44 | |
| Cynthia McKinney | 2 |
| Kat Swift | 2 |
| Undecided | 1 |
Constitution Party
| Senate District 44 | |
| Jerome Corsi | 1 |
| Mike Huckabee | 3 |
| Alan Keyes | 3 |
| Ron Paul | 65 |
| Mitt Romney | 2 |
| Undecided | 7 |
| Other | 1 |
