Ron Paul May Have Secretly Won The Iowa Caucuses
2012 Elections, Breaking News, Headlines Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
By: Grace Wyler, BusinessInsider.com
DES MOINES — Ron Paul may have officially come in third tonight, but if the campaign’s caucus strategy went off as planned, then Paul may actually be the real winner of the first Republican voting contest.
That’s because Paul’s massive organizational push in Iowa focused on both winning votes, and also on making sure that Paul supporters stuck around after the vote to make sure they were selected as county delegates — the first step towards being elected as a delegate to the Republican National Convention.
That’s because Iowa’s Republican caucuses are non-binding — they are technically just a straw poll, so once selected, delegates are free to vote for whichever presidential candidate they choose.
“Part of what we’ve been training the Ron Paul people to do is not to leave after the vote,” Dan Godzich, a senior campaign advisor, told BI. “Stay and get elected to the conventions and get us those delegates.”
Godzich and Sydney Hay, another Paul advisor, crisscrossed Iowa in the weeks leading up to the caucuses, making sure precinct leaders knew what to do and organizing slates of delegates that would ensure Paul walked away with a strong majority, even if he lost the caucus’ straw poll vote.
By the eve of Election Day, Hay said she was confident that Paul would come away from Iowa with a strong majority of the state’s delegates. It’s a good first step toward making sure that Paul has a strong presence on the floor in Tampa this summer — something that his supporters believe will help force the Republican party to start reckoning with their Movement.
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No, the only way this delegate idea will happen is if there is violence. If you remember four years ago, the Ron Paul delegates were physically stopped from going onto the floor to give their votes. What is going to stop it from happening this time around when the military is now more on the streets taking people at a whim?
Still, the idea is good and should be done as suggested in the article. If that is not done, then the step I have just referred to means nothing since it would not exist. So go for it.
Rhonda
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The only way to assure that the Paul people are allowed their chance at being delegates is to be there in large amounts and “forcing” their way onto the platform and resisting the people trying to stop them. Peaceful revolution does NOT mean pansy actions but rather peacefu forcefulness by not accepting the tyranny of the GOP.
Paul has the support, and will have the votes. If he does as well as he did in Iowa in even half the state races, it’ll be a brokered convention. Paul’s supporters know to get elected as delegates, bound or unbound, so in the event of a brokered convention THEY will have the power.
Audit the fed, support HR 459 Paul.