Pennsylvania Delegate headache-Romney takes almost all the delegates prior to primary

[wgadget]

Ron Paul is a Pennsylvania native.

Do Pennsylvanians know?

 

[tbone717]

Ron Paul is a Pennsylvania native.

Do Pennsylvanians know?

So is Newt. Really doesn't make much of a difference.

 

[Cos]

Folks, I read the delegate list and NONE of the delegates except for Ron Paul's are bound. This going to be a VERY interesting convention to say the least.

 

[Agorism]

Folks, I read the delegate list and NONE of the delegates except for Ron Paul's are bound. This going to be a VERY interesting convention to say the least.

Is that good or bad?

 

[sailingaway]

I've seen this written up other places and they say Romney AND PAUL have delegates on the ballot but Santorum does not.

 

[Ivash]

Romney is a safe candidate- he has a shot to win (not a great shot, but a shot), but most importantly he doesn't kill the rest of the Republicans running. Santorum has no chance to win and would bring down a lot of Republicans with him. Who the elite should support is obvious.

 

[tbone717]

I've seen this written up other places and they say Romney AND PAUL have delegates on the ballot but Santorum does not.

That is my assessment of it as well. I recognize the Romney names, I am assuming the ones that I do not recognize are potentially Paul supporters, but Romney does have the name recognition advantage. Typically, from years past the delegate slates are filled with people with name recognition (local politicians primarily)

 

[parocks]

If I read this correctly am I to understand PA delegates are not bound? Is this then not a very good state for us to focus Grassroots delegates and takeoever the state? The way this article reads suggests Romney will get them all.... but we know how good our ground game is. Unless I've read this wrong that seems like our kind of situation in PA.

Yes.

Did the OP say that the delegates aren't even listed with the candidate?

What Santorum should do, because <1144 really is the goal of not Romney, is just tell his people to vote for Gingrich's delegates or our delegates.

We would have to determine who our delegates are, and inform our supporters which delegates to vote for.

 

[PolicyReader]

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/03/15/031512-news-web-campaign-santorum

This and UT share a story, tho UT won't be reported on because it's assumed Romney wins in the pop vote.
Still nothing like holding the straw poll months after the vote that matters

 

[PolicyReader]

Yes.

Did the OP say that the delegates aren't even listed with the candidate?

What Santorum should do, because <1144 really is the goal of not Romney, is just tell his people to vote for Gingrich's delegates or our delegates.

We would have to determine who our delegates are, and inform our supporters which delegates to vote for.

Yep, this would be the wise tactical choice. I wonder if Santorum or his aids will act on it.

 

[RDM]

Ron Paul is a Pennsylvania native.

Do Pennsylvanians know?

Living near Pittsburgh where Ron Paul's from, you wouldn't know it unless you did your own research. He gets scant coverage here.

 

[tbone717]

Living near Pittsburgh where Ron Paul's from, you wouldn't know it unless you did your own research. He gets scant coverage here.

In all fairness he hasn't lived in PA since the late 50's IIRC. I live abut 10 minutes from where Newt grew up, and there is no coverage of him here in our local news either. But like Paul, Newt hasn't lived in PA since the late 50's.

 

[kathy88]

In PA they are not identified on the ballot as tied to a candidate. There is just a list of names. They order they appear on the ballot is "drawn out of a hat." That's why I was stressing that we needed LOTS of delegates to petition to get on the ballot. The more delegates we had, the better chances of getting them in. Most people have no idea who these delegates are, so they just pick the first three. When I expressed an interest in running as delegate the "chosen" delegates from the campaign were very discouraging. I was a little pissed, frankly. They were like, we already picked the three and the alternates, just work on getting them on the ballots. I know who they are in my CD, and I will certainly help get their names out to Paul supporters, but this was handled horribly from the beginning.

 

[kathy88]

SO, people in PA need to find out who their delegates are and get those names out to supporters pronto.

 

[69360]

We would have to determine who our delegates are, and inform our supporters which delegates to vote for.

The campaign knows who they are, they chose 3 per district to run. I'm sure they will put out a delegate list on the website and email it to the list before the election like last time.

In PA they are not identified on the ballot as tied to a candidate. There is just a list of names. They order they appear on the ballot is "drawn out of a hat." That's why I was stressing that we needed LOTS of delegates to petition to get on the ballot. The more delegates we had, the better chances of getting them in. Most people have no idea who these delegates are, so they just pick the first three. When I expressed an interest in running as delegate the "chosen" delegates from the campaign were very discouraging. I was a little pissed, frankly. They were like, we already picked the three and the alternates, just work on getting them on the ballots. I know who they are in my CD, and I will certainly help get their names out to Paul supporters, but this was handled horribly from the beginning.

Same thing happened to me. I deferred to the chosen people as well. Hope it works out. There is lesson to be learned from the VI where they split the RP delegate vote too much and Romney got almost all the delegates.