Louisiana results?

This sounds pretty good from National Review:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzI5NTdhYzM0OTdiNGZiZTM4MTg0YzVjZTcyMDkzZTM=

Finally, there's Ron Paul, and he's well, being Ron Paul. He had 600 people show up at a rally yesterday in a bad part of Baton Rouge and was met with rousing applause. How many of the Paul people have actually gone to the work of registering as Republicans, and then will turn around and show up tonight will be determined, but still, Paul could surprise here. After all, he came in a strong second in a similar situation in Nevada last Saturday.

Stay tuned...

UPDATE: Just spoke with somebody on the ground in Louisiana, and caucus turnout is heavy all over the state. Romney and Paul supporters appear to be the most vocal and visible thus far.
 
I haven't seen anyone get the Louisiana delegate rules right yet -- they must be complicated. Here's the best source I've found --

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P08/LA-R.phtml#0100

Can someone from Louisiana confirm if it is right? It says there are 47 delegates -- 3 from each of 7 districts (21), 3 more statewide (3), 20 from the primary on 2/9 (20), and 3 party officers (3).

44 of the 47 are up for grabs are selected at the state convention on 2/16, but 20 of those MIGHT be committed to the statewide primary winner, IF the winner gets over 50% of the vote, which seems unlikely.

In any event, good work tonight guys!
 
Tonight we're electing delegates to the State Convention. Those are the people who vote for the delegates to the national convention.

We will need to find out how many Ron Paul delegates (out of 105) were elected to the State Convention.
 
District 7

I just returned from the caucus here in Lake Charles, Calcasieu parish, District 7. We had our entire compliment of delegates and alternates on the list.
I was there for the entire event, until they closed doors for the count at 8pm. From what I saw during this time, the outside world would think that Ron Paul was the only one running, signs plastered everywhere. The turnout was excellent, from young voters to old, and I would say that the majority who came, if not already a Ron supporter, were at least were willing to take the slim jims we had for them. Very few said no. Many left with yard signs.
The only other candidate who had a table set up was poor Mitt, with only 2 of his people manning it. We were quite the presence there, and all of us were civil and polite. No issues.
Waiting for the results now...
 
specsaregood said:
Oh, I'm not calling him into question, that's why i have donated. :)

But it was really more of a personal/philosophical question. RP is definitely a diamond in a field of coal and was wondering if Brent has pondered this question to himself. I would LIKE to say that I could do it (and I am a good person overall); but when I am really honest with myself, I don't know if I could say with 100% certainty that I could resist the temptations for sooo long. But like you said, he would get 2 years to prove it! :)
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You know what they say about coal.

INCREASE THE PRESSURE ON 'EM TEN FOLD
 
PennCustom4RP said:
I just returned from the caucus here in Lake Charles, Calcasieu parish, District 7. We had our entire compliment of delegates and alternates on the list.
I was there for the entire event, until they closed doors for the count at 8pm. From what I saw during this time, the outside world would think that Ron Paul was the only one running, signs plastered everywhere. The turnout was excellent, from young voters to old, and I would say that the majority who came, if not already a Ron supporter, were at least were willing to take the slim jims we had for them. Very few said no. Many left with yard signs.
The only other candidate who had a table set up was poor Mitt, with only 2 of his people manning it. We were quite the presence there, and all of us were civil and polite. No issues.
Waiting for the results now...
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Hey man...you guys rocked...I could NOT BELIEVE the amount of college kids there...the darn building looked like Ron Paul campaign headquarters...I just wanted to give y'all kudos...really...you guys definitely ROCKED the vote in the 7th.
 
Saw a great post from a Romney person (that got re-posted on RPF) in Baton Rouge who said he thought RP would win about 1/3 of the delegates there... Huge.
 
aymn27 said:
Hey man...you guys rocked...I could NOT BELIEVE the amount of college kids there...the darn building looked like Ron Paul campaign headquarters...I just wanted to give y'all kudos...really...you guys definitely ROCKED the vote in the 7th.
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This is almost exactly the same as the Lafayette caucus, the other half of District 7.
 
jenninlouisiana said:
Hopefully tonight or tomorrow, we'll be able to identify the Ron Paul people and how many slots they got, but like others have said.... we are all TECHNICALLY and officially UNCOMMITTED. But we should know something....

Because the 5th district is so large, for instance, we have parishes that will be attending in *5* different locations total. So we'll have to call those leaders and see if there were any voters who went there.... My caucus location has 2 parishes in the 4th district attending....

No coverage.... no one understands the process for one and everyone is "uncommitted"....

RP can put out a press release once we know we won the majority in each of the 7 districts. If we haev the majority, then we can safely assume he won 21 delegates.

The other 20 will be voted in by us at the state convention on 2/16. But like I said, if we get the majority we can safely assume we will win them as well because we will be the only ones who vote (unless LAGOP tries to change that rule....)
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21 delegates? Wow! That would actually put us in third place, ahead of Huckabee.
 
We need to know the number of delegates to the State Convention we elected.

Even if we don't get 50% of the delegates (so we can claim to have won 21 delegates) -- we can say how many delegates out of 105 to the State Convention we won -- that can be turned into a % and hopefully a measure of how we "placed".
 
Hey guys, I know I'm not exactly the bluebird of happiness and optimism lately, but you guys sure do seem to have your stuff together down there in Louisiana.

Wow, winning 20 delegates . . . the thought excites me and could be just the thing this campaign needs to keep it competitive.

I'll be praying.
 
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