lukep

^With the media on their side, you do realize that they can turn public opinion against paul BECAUSE he's using this, what they will call "shady & underhanded" methods to "Steal" the nomination, right?

I could totally see Paul winning enough delegates but then having half of America hate him for his "abuse" of the system... They'll try to get the caucus system Voided at that point. Oy vey.

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turbolapp

Nah. Especially since this is exactly how our current president won the candidacy against Hilary. There was some talk about it, but since there's nothing underhanded (since this is exactly how the electoral system works) people move on.

lukep

Ah. That I did not know. Carry on.

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Netphase

Tonight is my MN BPOU/Senate District convention. I think around 300-400 precinct delegates/alternates should be there. I have heard that around 120 precinct delegates will be running to fill 46 delegate spots moving on to the next level which will be the congressional district convention.

The local Ron Paul group met up yesterday for some final pre-convention organization. We have our slate of delegates picked and some supporters that know Roberts Rules of Order very well. Hopefully the GOP establishment will not try anything shady.

I wonder if I should wear a sweater vest in an attempt to get extra votes from Santorum supporters.

Unarmed Gunman

Interesting - keep us posted on how everything works out on that. I would expect the GOP establishment to play dirty.

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lukep

Awesome, Best of luck! And Yep, the sweater vest sounds like a great idea.

Be sure to read up on the latest Tactics that the GOP has tried to use on the MO Caucuses here: (Serious eye-opener!)

Latest Anti-Paul Tactics from Missouri. What you're up against as a voter! | Peace . Gold . Liberty | Ron Paul 2012

And be sure to bring a cameraphone! -There's even an app now that lets your camera keep recording in stealth mode with the screen turned off... I'd download that before I went too.

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magcshroom

turbolapp

I don't know if Texas is going to make it.

Netphase

The convention was not too bad. The establishment chair acted fairly in my opinion and nobody was ignored. Nobody said a word about cameras or video.

They split us up into 4 "quadrants" for delegate voting which screwed us up a little bit because the people on our slate were not spread evenly through the 4 divided areas. They said the split was because one active and more populated area would take most of the the delegates spots at previous conventions, leaving some less populated parts of the district with nobody representing them. Each quadrant was given a percentage of the total delegate spots to fill depending on the population.

The GOP establishment knew the exact 4 quadrant boundaries ahead of time, made a slate of their people for each, and passed them out to everyone as we entered the 4 separate rooms to hear speeches and vote for delegates.



We still ended up filling 22 out of 46 delegate spots, 33 alternate spots, and 4 local GOP Officer positions.

The convention started at 7pm, I volunteered as a teller (vote counter) and was there until almost 1am counting votes and making sure no fraud was going on in the counting room.

The Ron Paul campaign said this is a tough establishment district, so they were happy with the results. If other districts keep getting at least close to 50% or better we should be in good shape with a majority at the next convention.

Unarmed Gunman

Very cool - thanks for the update.

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turbolapp

Texas nailbiter GOP convention issues update:

http://www.texasgop.org/posts/245-em...meeting-update

lukep

I'm stoked. Paul could "win" his own state for sure that way.

What's with the "After the first Ballot" thing? I don't see any clarification of what that calls for.

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turbolapp

The eventual republican nominee will need to have 50% + 1 of the delegate votes (1144 delegates).

The "first ballot" means what all the delegates are required, by state law, to do at the first vote. Every state is different in their rules, some are majority takes all, some are according to a percentage of popular vote, some are unbound all together and are just whatever the delegate wants.

In the instance that there is no nominee with 1144 votes on the first ballot (which there most assuredly won't be with 4 nominees as they are now) many (maybe most) states allow for a free for all on the second ballot/vote. This is when all the strategically placed RP delegates (having already done their proper delegatory duty according to RNC rules) will swing all their votes towards Ron Paul.

This is the delegate strategy that's been going on for the last couple of months. And why he actually does have a chance.

lukep

Ahh, in Tampa. Gotcha... The way it was worded I thought they were talking about in Texas at the beauty pageant.

I agree, no one is 1/2 as organized as Paul's delegates, and ppl are going to be SRSLY surprised at the results in Tampa... But I temper it with the knowledge that the GOP has already found FOUR (4) distinctive, different ways to commit vote fraud so far this season. What's one more in Tampa?

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MoneyBitches

so are there a lot of RP supporters on this site?

Why is that?

lukep

Since you're a 5-post wondernoob I'm tempted to tell you we're all actually Dick "frothy" Scrotorum voters here but I just can't bring myself to do it.

The real answer is because we are mostly all smart and like freedom.

Sounds like a jaded thing to say, but it's the core truth of the matter.

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turbolapp

There's alot of potential road blocks ahead for Ron Paul which can be discouraging... until you realize how many he's gotten through already in the last 30 years.

Never stop.

danke

Dunning

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I'm not an entrepreneur, I just play one on TV...

turbolapp

Trolling

lukep

^Yep, Danke is not only a troll, but he committed the crime of wasting his 1,000 post here on a freaking 1 WORD POST!

Ban???

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turbolapp

Ron Paul supporters dominate GOP caucuses in St. Louis, Jackson County


While I'm annoyed at the continuing perpetuation of the media's attempt to forcefully dismiss RP, to mention the white house, it's obvious they are now taking him more serious in the potential to win the primaries.