If we fill the conventions in Georgia and Newt wins and then drops out...

[XTreat]

I don't know guys, the latest polls show Paul at 3%, 5% and 7% in GA. I wonder if he is just unpopular or if he is actually disliked by almost all GOP voters in GA. I mean, I just didn't expect to see polls with Paul at 3% at this point in time. It looks like he is getting less popular in GA. I cannot figure out how Paul could get most of Gingrich's delegates with support so low.

Its because the "Gingrich" delegates are really "Ron Paul" delegates.

 

[XTreat]

All it takes is 2-3 people per precinct showing up.

 

[wgadget]

I quote:

"Nominating committee will conduct interview with potential delegates and alternates to the Congressional District Conventions and/or State Convention at the xxxx County Republican Headquarters....on the following dates:..... Anyone wishing to be a delegate or alternate to the Congressional District Convention and/or State Convention should appear before this committee."

I don't remember having to appear before a nominating committee last time around...but maybe I just don't remember it.

 

[NoOneButPaul]

I hope this is their ace...

If we can end up snaking all of Newt's southern delegates we could actually end up with the most, but if most is not 1144 then I'm still not sure it matters because at the end of the day Santorum and Romney would probably team up against us.

How awesome would it be if Mitt ended up having to give us his delegates to stop Santorum?

All unlikely but we can dream...

 

[NoOneButPaul]

I quote:

"Nominating committee will conduct interview with potential delegates and alternates to the Congressional District Conventions and/or State Convention at the xxxx County Republican Headquarters....on the following dates:..... Anyone wishing to be a delegate or alternate to the Congressional District Convention and/or State Convention should appear before this committee."

I don't remember having to appear before a nominating committee last time around...but maybe I just don't remember it.

"I'm a Mitt Romney supporter, but i'll support whoever the nominee is. I just want to get Obama out."

That line with a nice haircut and dress pants should get you past any committee.

I see no harm in lying to these people to get the most delegates, they want to play dirty then we should play dirty right back.

 

[DRFilms]

Its because the "Gingrich" delegates are really "Ron Paul" delegates.

That's exactly correct and they know it. Here in Gwinnett (one of the largest counties) our mass meeting of potential delegates overwhelmingly voted for Paul on the straw poll even though Newt WAS THERE in person which should have brought more of his people to the meeting. Even with him physically there most of us picked Paul in the straw poll. I'd hate to see what it was like in counties he didn't visit!

We will be in the seats, we'll have the most delegates going to Tampa... the question is will Gingrich drop out before then or will it be a brokered convention? In either case Paul will have more delegates legally. We are not going to do ANYTHING illegal. We're simply going to know the rules, and use them to get ourselves in a position to get behind Ron should circumstances allow it.

 

[ProBlue33]

Stealth delegates, I love it, payback is a bitch TPTB.

 

[NoOneButPaul]

Stealth delegates, I love it, payback is a bitch TPTB.

Illinois picks 12 unbound delegates at their state convention in early June.

I'm going to go in there and make them believe i'm the biggest Romney supporter they've ever seen...

 

[nobody's_hero]

I'm gonna buy a santorum sweater vest to wear to convention, lol.

 

[MozoVote]

We have one expat from Georgia in our Meetup. He said the rules at the 2008 GA convention were thoroughly twisted to keep the campaigns from assigning delegates. Even the Huckabee campaign was locked out and the powers-that-be decided everything.

 

[mosquitobite]

Wouldn't you want to pretend to be Newt supporters in GA??

 

[MozoVote]

Maybe the Newt people are too thick with each other to pull that off.

 

[tbone717]

Wouldn't you want to pretend to be Newt supporters in GA??

It's a sad state of affairs when RP supporters have to pretend to be supporters of another candidate. Honestly, stuff like this will damage people's credibility if they are found out.

 

[NoOneButPaul]

It's a sad state of affairs when RP supporters have to pretend to be supporters of another candidate. Honestly, stuff like this will damage people's credibility if they are found out.

By the time they find out Paul will have the nomination

 

[georgiaboy]

It's a sad state of affairs when RP supporters have to pretend to be supporters of another candidate. Honestly, stuff like this will damage people's credibility if they are found out.

Agree. You don't have to be overt about it, you can usually keep to yourself and not get trapped in discussions, but outright lying will come back to bite you when the district and state conventions come around, because that's when the real fight for delegates to the national convention takes place, and everyone's loyalties are revealed with open voting.

Remember, you are in the company of grassroots everyday Republicans who we agree with on most issues. There's plenty of common ground to work with.

 

[DRFilms]

Wouldn't you want to pretend to be Newt supporters in GA??

We don't have to.. Most of Newt supporters are embarrassed they are anyway so they aren't telling anyone. All we are doing is saying "I just want Obama out!" and saying we're undecided. Just like Newt supporters.. heh

 

[wgadget]

We have one expat from Georgia in our Meetup. He said the rules at the 2008 GA convention were thoroughly twisted to keep the campaigns from assigning delegates. Even the Huckabee campaign was locked out and the powers-that-be decided everything.

I was there. They had a private rules meeting the night before the convention. If I recall, they forgot to tell us. I also remember that they decided they couldn't take credit cards or some such thing at the registration table. It was just a bad memory, and a thankfully, I don't remember many of the details. I do remember a lot of hollering and cheating.

 

[PolicyReader]

Not sure if this has been discussed before, but something occurred to me about Georgia and David Frum's article on Ron Paul stacking the delegate conventions there.

Let's assume that Gingrich wins Georgia and gets all or almost all the delegates there. Delegates are bound, 71 I believe. Let's assume that Ron Paul supporters stack the conventions as Frum describes. Then you have 71 Ron Paul supporters bound to vote for Newt at the convention.

Then let's assume that Gingrich drops out and all those bound Ron Paul guys become unbound.

Is this what we're up to over there? If so, that's freaking genius.

There's a saying in the talmud that goes like this:

צדיקים מלאכתם נעשית בידי אחרים - The work of the righteous is done by others for him.

Go Newt! Win us some delegates!

shh be vewy vewy quite, we're hunting delegates

And that is a way for things to play out even without a brokered convention. Many bound delegates may also be unbound by a vote at their state convention, or after the first round of balloting at the national convention in tampa (if no one wins outright during that first round).
So there's a short list of three ways that who fills a delegate slot ends up mattering more than who for (in the sense of who the popular vote was for) even if the delegates in question are bound.
Fun fact, some Primary and/or winner take all states have delegate selection processes that are very much like a caucus only with even lower participation and turnout. These events fill the delegate slots with the individuals that are then bound to a candidate based on the pop vote until/unless something causes them (as outlined above) to become unbound.

 

[tbone717]

Remember, you are in the company of grassroots everyday Republicans who we agree with on most issues. There's plenty of common ground to work with.

You must be new here. Don't you know all those Republicans showing up are war-mongering, mind numbed jackasses who are doing the bidding for whatever Fox News tells them. There is no common ground, they must be mentally beaten into submission.

/sarcasm

 

[tbone717]

We don't have to.. Most of Newt supporters are embarrassed they are anyway so they aren't telling anyone. All we are doing is saying "I just want Obama out!" and saying we're undecided. Just like Newt supporters.. heh

But you are not undecided. And by saying you are, you are lying.

It's funny how we have 30 page threads on this site the minute a candidate or reporter tells a lie, but then we condone it when it suits our purposes.

I am not speaking for the campaign, but I would highly doubt they would condone supporters lying to gain an advantage in the delegate selection process.