HUGE NEWS FOR RON PAUL: Florida May Allow Proportional Delegates

[newbitech]

What is he polling in FL anyway? Last I saw it was 5% -- he is polling 15-20% in all the states after FL and before Super Tuesday -- for the ones I've seen polls for

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...e-delegate-s-and-analysis)&highlight=schedule

do you have a source for that comment? Here is what I found.

http://www.ronpaul.com/2012-ron-paul/ron-paul-polls/

 

[Cyberbrain]

This is fantastic! We may not have the money to go for the win here, but now it won't be an easy treasure chest of delegates anymore for Romney to snatch up.

 

[RickyJ]

Florida is also a CLOSED PRIMARY.

That means party-only, no independents.

Splitting Romney's delegates would still be good, however.

A lot of old voters can be influenced to vote for Paul by being nice to them, taking them to the polls. Mowing their grass for nothing. Hey, some are just lonely and want someone to talk to. We can then talk about Ron Paul! Florida can go for Ron Paul. He doesn't have to settle for just crumbs in Florida, he can win it all.

 

[gerryb]

Will it be proportional based on vote % statewide, or based on who wins each congressional district?

 

[nobody's_hero]

This is fantastic! We may not have the money to go for the win here, but now it won't be an easy treasure chest of delegates anymore for Romney to snatch up.

That's something to think about. We could just let the other candidates help us split up Romney's delegates. Regardless of whether the campaign does much in florida, shifting away from winner-take-all would be a great thing to happen period.

Otherwise, Romney gets the whole deal.

 

[gerryb]

Sign up as delegates for other candidates, they will probably be scrambling for them as well

 

[newbitech]

Will it be proportional based on vote % statewide, or based on who wins each congressional district?

Good question. Florida now has 27 congressional districts.

 

[newbitech]

Good question. Florida now has 27 congressional districts.

if I had to guess, it would be...

23 Conditional WTA / State ( Meaning someone would need 50%+1, and proportional other wise so 40%/20% Would go 15/8 )
27 WTA/Congressional District

Or they could do all 50 Conditional WTA which now that I think about it, that is probably what they will do with the penalty.

 

[Omnica]

Exactly what the official campaign needs to do! Go all in with grassroots, no need to spend a fortune. They should not fall into the trap being set by the MSM when they keep asking if we are going to compete or skip Florida. Hell yes we are going to compete!

Yesyesyes

 

[Okaloosa]

Ron Paul plans strong presence in Florida primary!

http://www.boston.com/Boston/politi...ida-primary/TkwtbW36KCFXniqPvkurBO/index.html

CONCORD, N.H. -- Upbeat about how it will fare in today’s election, the Ron Paul campaign said today that it may now consider a stronger presence in Florida, which holds its primary at the end of the month.

A Paul spokesman today downplayed previous reports that the Texas congressman would not try to actively compete in Florida, the largest trove of votes in the nascent campaign season.

“We’re not yet spending any money down there, but we have strong grass roots presence,” said the spokesman, Gary Howard.

The key, of course, is money and whether the campaign will have the resources to effectively compete in such a massive state far different from Iowa and New Hampshire.

Paul will actively compete in South Carolina, to which he will travel tomorrow.

Howard expressed optimism that Paul’s supporters, a fervent crew of mostly youthful voters, succeeded in pulling voters to polling places.

In the town of Derry, Paul made two stops this afternoon to mingle with voters. Paul was running behind for his scheduled visits.

Ken Spilman, who is unemployed, waited 90 minutes for the candidate.

“I hope he stays in this race as long as he can,” said Spilman.

 

[pmbug]

Watched CNN last night during the coverage of the NH results and at one point, John King had a graphic up on his display panel showing the state of Florida with some colored circles overlayed indicating the reach and "ownership" of media buys from the campaigns. Ie. the circle sizes indicated coverage area for Florida and the color shading, like pie charts, showed which campaigns had how spent what % of the total ad buys for that media center so far. Every circle in the state was 99.9% Romney colored.

If Florida GOP decides to keep their state winner take all, they are conceding the state's delegates to Goldman Sachs. No other candidate has the funds to risk on a winner takes all high stakes gamble. That's going to disenfranchise roughly 2/3's of Florida's GOP voters if current poll numbers showing Romney leading with less than 33% of the vote are accurate.

 

[Immortal Technique]

This could be huge for Ron Paul.

Jesse Benton, Ron Paul's campaign chair, is saying that there are reports Florida may announce today that they plan to allow proportional delegates.

Here's what that means.

Traditionally Florida is a winner take all state. Meaning whoever wins the primary there gets all the delegates. If they change the rules and divide up the delegates proportionally among the top finishers — and it has been rumored in the past they were considering it — it means that Ron Paul could compete in Florida.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-...al-delegates-2012-1?mid=5770517#ixzz1jAVFBpbd

 

[cynic]

In my opinion, it makes more financial sense for FL to break up the delegates. This gives other candidates an incentive to campaign in the state and bring their money and all that entails with them.

 

[havox112]

Somebody is looking for a bigger paycheck this election season... let's see how this pays out for Ron Paul.

 

[Badger Paul]

" In my opinion, it makes more financial sense for FL to break up the delegates. This gives other candidates an incentive to campaign in the state and bring their money and all that entails with them. "

Exactly. If they want candidates in Florida campaigning and and they want to make an impact which presumably why they moved their primary date up, they need to make this proportional. Otherwise Mitt will be all alone by himself there.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

If anyone wants to help on the ground in Florida, make sure that you sign up with the official campaign:

http://www.ronpaul2012.com/sign-up-as-volunteer/

 

[Babylon]

We need to get money for Florida...

Money is SOOOOOOOO important now...

Have to give til it hurts !!!!!

It's a trap.

Until the law is on the books and proportional is guaranteed, don't waste money in Florida.

 

[kill the banks]

I wonder if we blitzed the radio instead of tv if it would be effective ... certainly cheaper

 

[hueylong]

Give to the campaign til it hurts. Dr. Paul and his team will decide where to spend it for the biggest impact.

 

[Flirtnwitdisaster]

You have to remember the straw poll from last year in Florida. Remember Herman Cain won. They don't like Mitt, yet Mitt is the only one with the money to compete in Florida. If Florida keeps it as winner takes all, they stand to lose a lot of money being pumped into their economy, because no one will really show up to compete heavily there. Florida really screwed themselves by moving up their primary.