From DP: The Ron Paul Factor (vote tallies)

[Captain Shays]

This right here. The local parties are well aware of what is going on. Before the election they called us "rogue toddlers". They wanted our help, they want "the young people", but they want us to fall in line.

The trouble with that is, though it may be true is that now, they can play those who wrote Ron Paul in as those who didn't vote in the public eye. If we all voted third party the numbers would be readily available for all to see. We could present those numbers to people to PROVE a level of dissent. Now, it's completely limited to the actual numbers of those who did vote for third parties. EVERYONE now KNOWs EXACTLY how many people voted for Gary Johnson Virgil Goode and Kill Stein. NO ONE knows how many people wrote in Ron Paul and they may never know. Only those who did write in Ron Paul and their friends know.

 

[Captain Shays]

+rep

For those who wrote in Ron Paul, more power to ya. Just next time don't try to give the illusion that anybody but us will know about it...unless you have a plan to make sure others know about it.

Wel I have spread REPS around but they wouldn't let me rep you again or I would have

 

[sailingaway]

However I do object to people making a case I was being misleading without posting posts where I actually was.

 

[sailingaway]

Like shooting fish in a barrel.

Where is that misleading?

If anything I make it clear that in many states his votes AREN'T individually counted, imho, and if read in the thread, I believe I make that point repeatedly, as well as that we can dig up and circulate the undervote number if we really want to.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Meh, the GOP won't listen anyway, c'mon Drake, the whole thing is a dog and pony show anyways.

NOBP.

 

[Captain Shays]

Meh, the GOP won't listen anyway, c'mon Drake, the whole thing is a dog and pony show anyways.

NOBP.

You may have a point AF but the whole point was to send them OUR message that we won't play their game and we refuse to support their corporate controlled plastic conservatives. I departed from NOBP when I realized that they would NEVER know it was me who stood up against them.

 

[paulbot24]

On a side note: The GOP base is alternating between saying their party is on life-support to running around screaming about how do they get the youth and latino vote and how they need to re-work their party to accommodate them......the UCLA Ron Paul tree-people come to mind.....I think they are actually figuring out they fucked up. Especially when they pissed off the entire Texas delegation in Tampa by unseating Maine. Texans have big mouths, as in they have a huge voice when it comes to the GOP, which they take very seriously.