Recent content by Avalon

74 national delegates come out of GA (54 newtered) but only 3 per congressional district. Getting their slate thrown out or ours put in will help us both in the CD and state conventions but doesn't get us 16 delegates. However, if the GOP accepts our slate we could likely sweep the CD...

Well I'm glad we got some but 15/58=26% which is not going to help us get to 50% in a brokered convention.

That might work on regular republicans and even hardcore ones who show up to caucuses/conventions. But it won't work on the slimy, self important national delegates that are always part of the state republican machinery. Excepting a Ron Paul revolution, of course.

Exactly, but they won't do that. I bet they stuffed ballots to invalidate the results and they'll be able to say "Newt took second in most of these precincts" because the ballots they threw in were for Newt.

35% from 2000 to 2010. It seems likely the housing boom brought an increase of 50% and when it cratered in '07 there began an exodus (that even continued past 2010 to today). And the young are most likely to leave because they are the most mobile and have the worst unemployment numbers.

Well to be fair, China has been strengthening the RMB against the dollar for >3 years now. IMO they need to start transitioning away from the export model but it will be hard given the other false economies they've created (ghost towns, RE 10x affordability, etc). They'll have to use a lot of...

Because republicans are holding their nose while voting for these guys, just like they did with McCain. That's why they were all for Perry (and Thompson last time around) before they knew who he was. If a new guy entered the race and the media gave him the spotlight, the best thing he could do...

I went to Seattle last week and wore RP gear everywhere. Only found one soul who initiated conversation and he told me he just couldn't put his heart into someone after Obama. I did talk an Obama supporter into voting for RP in the primary; then found out he's registered in CT. On the other...

China produces the vast majority of rare earths but they are plentiful elsewhere including the US. They just undercut the competition until they all shut down. Then a year or so ago China decided to restrict REs to chinese manufactured products (after having raised prices significantly) which...

Assuming they did and it was someone who doesn't steal votes from RP (ie, Jeb Bush), it could only help us, both increase our standing in later primaries and also increase the chances of a brokered convention (although not too much, the other candidates are likely easy to play ball).

And that's fine, but it's still a stretch to call either WW2 or Afghanistan just wars.

Ron Paul voted for military action in Afghanistan, not for removing the Taliban or an occupation. He sponsored his own bill proposing the use of marque and reprisal instead of war: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.+3076:_blank As for WW2, as more documents become declassified it...

I believe U-3 (as currently defined) to be 8.5% but not to be a useful definition of unemployment (and heavily manipulated down). But that doesn't make it OK to spout falsehoods like you and hollywood did; doublecounting and benefit collection have no effect on unemployment.

Hollywood and DamianTV, you guys need to educate yourselves on the standard measure of unemployment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_Population_Survey

Hey, just so you guys know they removed the bottom table from the release. So I looked at the other tables and they seem to match the topline numbers. Was that true before? I didn't save a copy.