BREAKING: Ron Paul First Place in West Virginia Delegates

[gandhi08]

Great success.

Waaa Waaa Whhiiiiii.......


Great Successs..... HI5... HI5.

 

[EricRAlbrecht]

It means we have the most delegates signed up to be on the county ballots to the state convention, we have to work really hard the next 30 days on getting everyone elected, but short term we have some bragging rights.

WV is 50th in fundraising for Ron Paul, no paid staff at all, and we are beating 3 campaigns that worked the establishment and had paid state and county coordinators. This is entirely grassroots.

LarryWhite, I told you a couple days ago that you are one of my heroes and I want to say it again. You are awesome. Spirit of '76 too!

In my effort to emulate you, Ive started cold calling and working Oklahoma the same way you have done WV. Ive gotten 8 precinct captains so far (in Tulsa county).

If i can muster the same dedication you have shown, i know i cant fail.

*EDIT: fixed the state, i accidentally said NH instead of WV

 

[Spirit of '76]

super sweet!

Uncommitted
630
what does that imply?

Those are the people we now have to convince to vote for Ron.

It means we have the most delegates signed up to be on the county ballots to the state convention, we have to work really hard the next 30 days on getting everyone elected, but short term we have some bragging rights.

WV is 50th in fundraising for Ron Paul, no paid staff at all, and we are beating 3 campaigns that worked the establishment and had paid state and county coordinators. This is entirely grassroots.

I'd say we deserve a visit by Dr. Paul, don't you? Say, Tuesday, February 5th in Charleston...

 

[hopeforamerica]

Great news! This has inpsired me to look into become a delegate in Kansas!

Everyone on this forum that can do it, must become a delegate!!! This is more important than anything else we do.

 

[aspiringconstitutionalist]

This is great, but I advocate not telling this to the media. We should keep flying below the radar and hoping the other candidates don't catch on to what's happening, and thus, don't step up their efforts.

 

[tonyTheBest]

There is a discrepancy here.
The total number of delegates in WV is 1446 but the sum of the number of delegates for each candidate is 1478: so there are 31 more delegates allocated.

 

[Mental Dribble]

Thats is AMAZING

To all of whom that worked and put boots on ground to make this happen I thank you deeply. We are on our way and your support makes it possible to say... YES WE CAN WIN!!

 

[Spirit of '76]

LarryWhite, I told you a couple days ago that you are one of my heroes and I want to say it again. You are awesome. Spirit of '76 too!

In my effort to emulate you, Ive started cold calling and working Oklahoma the same way you have done WV. Ive gotten 8 precinct captains so far (in Tulsa county).

If i can muster the same dedication you have shown, i know i cant fail.

Thanks! Glad to hear you're taking action there in Oklahoma. It sounds like you're doing good work.

If there's any way we can help, just say the word.

 

[RonPaulwillWin]

epic win!

 

[LarryWhite]

LarryWhite, I told you a couple days ago that you are one of my heroes and I want to say it again. You are awesome. Spirit of '76 too!

In my effort to emulate you, Ive started cold calling and working Oklahoma the same way you have done WV. Ive gotten 8 precinct captains so far (in Tulsa county).

If i can muster the same dedication you have shown, i know i cant fail.

*EDIT: fixed the state, i accidentally said NH instead of WV

There are 217 heroes in WV today. Good luck in Oklahoma!

 

[Spirit of '76]

There is a discrepancy here.
The total number of delegates in WV is 1446 but the sum of the number of delegates for each candidate is 1478: so there are 31 more delegates allocated.

There's no discrepancy. These are people who have filed to be delegates.

For those filing as "At Large" delegates, there will be an election in each county to see which of those filing get to fill that county's apportioned seats.

 

[HalogenFlood]

It means we have the most delegates signed up to be on the county ballots to the state convention, we have to work really hard the next 30 days on getting everyone elected, but short term we have some bragging rights.

WV is 50th in fundraising for Ron Paul, no paid staff at all, and we are beating 3 campaigns that worked the establishment and had paid state and county coordinators. This is entirely grassroots.

I'm still not 100% clear why this is such a big deal. Don't delegates just vote for who gets the most votes at the primaries anyway? So if Mitt Romney won with, say, 30% of the vote, won't all those Ron Paul delegates have to vote for Mitt anyway? Sorry if this is a dumb question.

 

[mosquitobite]

This is great, but I advocate not telling this to the media. We should keep flying below the radar and hoping the other candidates don't catch on to what's happening, and thus, don't step up their efforts.

I kind of agree here

 

[LarryWhite]

There is a discrepancy here.
The total number of delegates in WV is 1446 but the sum of the number of delegates for each candidate is 1478: so there are 31 more delegates allocated.

It'll be more than that, these are just delegates that are running for the delegate slots. Example: Kanawha County has over 130+ delegates running for 51 slots.

The final numbers after the January vote will be much different. Many campaigns (including ours) are concentrated in 7 or 8 counties, so whomever wins those will have the majority going into the state convention.

 

[Spirit of '76]

I'm still not 100% clear why this is such a big deal. Don't delegates just vote for who gets the most votes at the primaries anyway? So if Mitt Romney won with, say, 30% of the vote, won't all those Ron Paul delegates have to vote for Mitt anyway? Sorry if this is a dumb question.

These are delegates to the state convention, where a vote will be taken to determine which candidate gets to appoint 18 of our 30 delegates to the national convention.

 

[nbruno322]

IS this final or can the number of delegates change gor WV?

 

[LarryWhite]

I'd say we deserve a visit by Dr. Paul, don't you? Say, Tuesday, February 5th in Charleston...

If he wants to win WV, he'd better come.

 

[HalogenFlood]

These are delegates to the state convention, where a vote will be taken to determine which candidate gets to appoint 18 of our 30 delegates to the national convention.

So then the other 12 delegates are decided by the primary vote?

 

[Spirit of '76]

IS this final or can the number of delegates change gor WV?

It will change. See Larry's explanation in post #34.

 

[Spirit of '76]

So then the other 12 delegates are decided by the primary vote?

9 by the primary vote, 3 from the WV GOP leadership.