Precinct Results

[ashlux]

OK Precinct Results Here

REMINDER: The precinct meetings are electing delegates to the county convention. The county convention will elect delegates to the district level. From there, the state delegates are selected. The district level may not exist, I'm not sure about that one.

I just got back from my precinct meeting, which included the entire Oklahoma House District 94 (part of Oklahoma county).

First off: shame on any Ron Paul supporters in District 94 for not showing up! Only three of us showed up: Me, my wife, and Rex Barrett (former Oklahoma House District 94 Republican candidate). Most precinct did not have a single person show up!

The straw poll results were:

1. Romney - 6 votes
2. Ron Paul, Huckabee, Curry? - 3 votes each
5. Giuliani - 2 votes
6. McCain, everyone else - 0 votes

Figuring out how many county delegates each candidate got is a bit more complicated. My guess at the number of county delegates from District 94:

* Ron Paul - 3 county delegates (me, my wife, and former OK House District 94 candidate Rex Barrett).
* Huckabee - 1.5 county delegates (one precinct gets 3 county delegates, 6 people showed up. 3 of those people voted for Huckabee in the straw poll, meaning 0.5 voting power each).
* Giuliani - 1.0 county delegates (two straw poll votes, see reasoning for Huckabee)
* I am not sure of Romney or Curry.

I have no idea who this Curry guy is. He probably got the "undecided" and "protest" votes in the straw poll.

Again, shame on you Ron Paul supporters in District 94! You were guaranteed *some* voting power in the county convention!

 

[ashlux]

Anyone who attended their precinct meeting, please post what whatever you can about your House district here.

 

[Tronchaser]

Well, I just got back from my precinct meeting as well... It was just me, and one very nice older lady. I voted myself, and she did too, precinct chairman. She didn't want any kind of serious responsibility, so she's now the secretary. There were no straw polls in my precinct and we really didn't talk about presidential politics that much. Neither of us had ever been to anything political before, and it was enough work just slogging through all the forms to fill out.

I'm a delegate though to the Cleveland county convention, and I'll do my part!

 

[skyfi]

House District 92, didn't have a meeting but joined neighboring distict 93's precinct meeting... 18 in attendance or so...

There was never a straw poll as far as I know. In my precint my girlfriend and I became delegates for our precinct (only 2 ppl from our precinct to show) and a friend who came along and signed up to be a delegate as well (only to show from his precinct also).

I talked to another Ron Paul supporter there and his table had 3 supporters 1 of which is running for local office in our district, and 3 supporters at my table. So we had 6/18 so not bad. I saw one Mitt supporter who passed out stickers to fellow Mitt supporters (about 4 or 5 in total). I saw no one or heard anything about any other candidates.

Thats the report from Precinct 518, House District 92.

 

[skgai]

Great stuff guys! I particularly enjoyed the two-person caucus! "Decisions are made by those who show up." Great work!

 

[EricRAlbrecht]

Precinct 49, tulsa county.

Straw poll results: 6 votes for ron paul. no other votes for other candidates.

2 of 2 delegate positions filled with ron paul supporters.

I did my homework before hand to let the ron paul supporters know that the meeting was tonight.

 

[AaronLein]

I'm in Cleveland County and the place was swamped with Ron Paul Supporters... Still, alot of precincts had no representation so I would imagine that a call to a county chair might claim these positions? I'm not sure of the process but a phone call couldn't hurt...

 

[OKRonPaul]

precinct 174 12 in attendance
straw poll
4 Paul
3 Huck
2 McCain
1 Romney
1 Rudy (undecided really, said she would vote for whoever gets the nomination)
1 Thompson (joking around, no idea who he really supports)
all 12 filled delegate slots

left 5 open slots that may still be filled by people who couldn't attend

 

[cjhowe]

I know everyone wants to share their enthusiasm about precinct results. Seriously, keep your mouth shut. It does us no good for other campaigns to know the strength or weakness of our numbers.

 

[acptulsa]

I, too, was at the district 049 caucus in Tulsa and want to commend Eric for a fantastic job! He's a shining example of what the grassroots can do if we do our homework. No one but our people bothered in this fairly populous area.

A reminder to everyone who held a caucus--get the paperwork done! I witnessed Eric's phone call to party headquarters just in case someone tried to deny it later (I'm not paranoid--they are out to get us!) and am about to log off of here and do my secretarial duties (minutes are one of the things required to make everything official). I assure you I will dot every i and cross every t!

 

[ashlux]

This was posted by a guy on the OKC meetup group mailing list:

Good news from Payne County (Stillwater area). Every precinct in the county met together. If the straw poll was any indicator, Ron Paul people were almost half of those who showed up. The results were:

Ron Paul -- 23
Mike Huckabee -- 13
John McCain -- 10
Mitt Romney -- 7
Frank Keating -- 1 (huh?)
Undecided -- 1
Rudy Giulianni -- 0

(I've withheld the emailer's name just in case he doesn't want it posted)

 

[OKRonPaul]

I know everyone wants to share their enthusiasm about precinct results. Seriously, keep your mouth shut. It does us no good for other campaigns to know the strength or weakness of our numbers.

I'm not sure it's a big deal at this point, isn't the cat out of the bag in OK? The initial large pool of delegates has been chosen, the straw polls taken. I think creating some excitement for everyone on the forums is a bigger plus at this point. Let me know if I've overlooked something though.

 

[Tronchaser]

I'm not sure it's a big deal at this point, isn't the cat out of the bag in OK? The initial large pool of delegates has been chosen, the straw polls taken. I think creating some excitement for everyone on the forums is a bigger plus at this point. Let me know if I've overlooked something though.

What you have overlooked is the fact that a lot of precincts had NO precinct chairman or anything. If they went back and filled in the papaerwork for an "open" delegation, they could then fill these empty precincts with their people. There is plenty of room for deception here, if they so choose.

 

[literatim]

Ron Paul supporters need to get those empty spots filled with Ron Paul supporters.

 

[enrique]

Remember that the battle is far from won at the caucus level. The less your opponents know where you stand, the better (so long as you know who is on your team). Until the delegates to the national convention are finalized you can easily be overwhelmed by procedural moves, etc. Keep on the down low for now in my opinion.
I know how Michigan works so I don't claim to be an expert of OK.

Remember, to them, it's not cheating if you're allowed to write the rules. That's politics!

 

[TexicanLady]

We didn't have a precinct meeting. I've left 3 messages on voice mail and sent 2 emails trying to contact the chairman. Keeping my fingers crossed and planning to make a trip to set on his doorstep.

 

[noztnac]

Frank Keating
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Keating

 

[ashlux]

Frank Keating
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Keating

I know who Frank Keating is. The original poster of that email was just confused why someone would choose him.

 

[ashlux]

Remember that the battle is far from won at the caucus level. The less your opponents know where you stand, the better (so long as you know who is on your team). Until the delegates to the national convention are finalized you can easily be overwhelmed by procedural moves, etc. Keep on the down low for now in my opinion.
I know how Michigan works so I don't claim to be an expert of OK.

Remember, to them, it's not cheating if you're allowed to write the rules. That's politics!

Precincts/Districts took straw polls. They already know where people stand. There's not much left to hide.

 

[Orat]

Not all of them took straw polls, and not all Paul supporters answered those polls truthfully, knowing that to vote for Paul openly would be strategically foolish. Indeed, those polls were specifically designed to draw Paul supporters out.

Fortunately, it looks like things are shaping up nicely for a brokered convention. So our delegate efforts are going to come into play here. But we need to keep a low profile and not shake things up. Remember, our goal is the national delegates. Everything we do needs to be to achieve that goal. Also know that this forum is being monitored by the opposition, so watch what you say. We already had one fellow supporter ousted from her position in the party for posts she made on this forum. They're also monitoring our meetups. Bottom line: they're scared of us. But really, they shouldn't be. We're not after power or to start taking over people's jobs. We just want to participate in the process to see that Paul is given a fair shake. So far, however, we haven't been getting that.