If on the first ballot, bound delegates and their alternates are not there to vote (say they walk out of the convention at that time), do they still count as votes for that individual? Basically a bunch of Paul supporters are bound delegates for Romney, can they walk out with the alternates to...
Pennington County results look fraudulent.
144 people in one precinct? Whole county only has 14k people. That would be like 5.6k people going to convention.
Don't focus on straw poll results. In Minnesota, Ron Paul supporters have taken over many of the Congressional District party positions and are organized this year to take a the majority of delegates via state convention and cd conventions. I think we took 14 delegates here last election. I...
The risk is if Santorum does well in NH, he will leap frog into SC with even more momentum. They should attack him with Rand's talking points of raising the debt ceiling 7 times for a total of $4.8 trillion and supporting the turncoat Arlen Specter.
This is good news for Minnesota. Paul could win all the delegates here (he won half in 2008). Most of the Bachmann supporters are tea party and should switch to Paul.
I could see Newt or Perry winning South Carolina, which is good if Paul can not win. The more split the delegates are among the candidates, the more likely chance for a brokered convention where party activists could pull out a win for Paul.