EXCLUSIVE: Ron Paul May Have Just Secretly Won Iowa

[Libertytree]

http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-p...trategy-201201

Ron Paul may have officially come in third in tonight's Iowa caucuses, but if his organizational strategy went off as planned, it is possible that the Texas Congressman is actually the real winner of the state's Republican nominating contest.

Senior advisors for Paul's coalitions team told Business Insider this week that the campaign's organizational strategy was focused not only on getting as many votes as they can, but in making sure that their volunteers stuck around after the voting to make sure that they were nominated as delegates to the county's Republican convention — the first step towards being appointed as a delegate to the Republican National Convention.


That's because Iowa's Republican caucuses are actually non-binding — it's technically just a straw poll. The only thing that will get Paul's — or any other candidate's — Iowa supporters to Tampa next year is if they stuck around and volunteered, or were elected, as delegates.


Sydney Hay, a senior advisor, said Monday night indicated that she was confident Paul's supporters would blow opponents out of the water when it came to the important delegate vote, adding that she has spent the last few weeks criss-crossing the state to ensure Paul's voters knew exactly what to do when the caucuses rolled around.


We will update when we know how it all turned out.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-p...#ixzz1iT5xWBZs

[Joe King]

The only thing that will get Paul's — or any other candidate's — Iowa supporters to Tampa next year is if they stuck around and volunteered, or were elected, as delegates.

If they don't get there 'til next year, they'll be too late.

[General of Darkness]

So what does this mean? I think I know the answer I just want to hear what everyone else thinks.

[Gaillo]

So what does this mean? I think I know the answer I just want to hear what everyone else thinks.

It means that people are waking up. En masse.

[BabushkaLady]

It's going to get Nasty . . . . The Paul campaign knows how to play the delegate game. This article may help General:

The New Republican Primary Rules Make It Possible for the Republican Establishment To Steal the Nomination From a Candidate They Don’t Like

New Republican primary rules are going to make it basically impossible for any candidate to wrap up the Republican nomination very early in 2012. In fact, the new Republican primary rules make a "brokered convention" much more likely and they also make it much more likely that the Republican establishment will attempt to steal the nomination away from a candidate that they do not like. How exactly they would do this will be discussed later in the article. The key is that most Republican primaries and caucuses will now allocate delegates using a proportional system rather than a "winner take all" system. Back in 2008, John McCain did very well in early "winner take all" primaries and wrapped up the Republican nomination very, very quickly. Nothing like that will happen in 2012. In fact, if the field remains crowded it is going to be very difficult for any candidate to accumulate more than 50 percent of the delegates by the time the Republican national convention rolls around. As will be discussed later on in this article, that would move the power into the hands of the Republican establishment.

rest at link:
http://lewrockwell.com/rep2/how-to-s...omination.html

Read on down to the part about delegates.

[Ponce]

I'll be able to sleep a lot better tonight........for a second there I thought that he was kaput.

[General of Darkness]

ALL I WANT IS YOU (FREEDOM)

[Libertytree]

[Shami-Amourae]

Estimated delegate count: Romney 7, Santorum 7, Paul 7, Gingrich 2, Perry 2

[Cebu_4_2]

Beautiful speech. absolutely beautiful.

I am now gathering what I can to sell, get pennies on the dollar, I am out of here.

Take care people.