Ron Paul Captures Equal Number of Delegates As Romney & Santorum

[bobbyw24]

Paul runs establishment candidates close despite weeks of vitriolic smear attacks by corporate media

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Ron Paul heads to New Hampshire having more than doubled his 2008 Iowa vote tally, secured an equal number of Republican delegates as Romney and Santorum, and is projected to beat Santorum into a strong second-placed finish in next week’s primary.

After weeks of intense and sustained smear attacks by the establishment media, during which Paul was labeled everything from “dangerous,” to “disgusting,” to “racist” and even called a “terrorist,” the Texan Congressman still managed to secure 26,219 votes compared to 11,841 votes in 2008 – finishing third behind Romney and Santorum.

Crucially, Paul has obtained an equal number of delegates to both Santorum and Romney – seven in total.

“Paul may actually be the real winner of the first Republican voting contest,” writes Grace Wyler. “That’s because Paul’s massive organizational push in Iowa focused on both winning votes, and also on making sure that Paul supporters stuck around after the vote to make sure they were selected as county delegates — the first step towards being elected as a delegate to the Republican National Convention.”

http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-do...equal-number-of-delegates-as-romney-santorum/

 

[UtahApocalypse]

delegates are not selected until the state convention.

 

[bobbyw24]

delegates are not selected until the state convention.

Man--just trying to post some positive stuff.

Reality bites

 

[Maltheus]

If Iowa worked like it does here in Colorado, then yes, it would be good news. And that seems to be how the article is describing it, with a non-binding straw poll, followed by delegate selection (with the delegates not having to declare their intentions). But based on what I saw on C-SPAN last night, Iowa uses the precinct's poll tallies to determine which camps to choose delegates from. And it didn't go favorably, since that one precinct had only 6 delegates, they gave 3 to Romney, 2 to Santorum and 1 to Paul, which actually means that, due to integer arithmetic, we'll likely end up doing far worse delegate-wise, than our percentages will suggest.

 

[mmadness]

Man--just trying to post some positive stuff.

Reality bites

Yes, what you posted is positive and thanks for that - but UtahApocalypse posted even more positive stuff. Because it's likely we have the lion's share of precinct delegates, because our people stayed behind. And therefore we should be able to dominate the elections for delegates at higher levels up to the state convention, allowing us to control even more than the delegates than the amounts which are "projected".

 

[liveandletlive]

If Iowa worked like it does here in Colorado, then yes, it would be good news. And that seems to be how the article is describing it, with a non-binding straw poll, followed by delegate selection (with the delegates not having to declare their intentions). But based on what I saw on C-SPAN last night, Iowa uses the precinct's poll tallies to determine which camps to choose delegates from. And it didn't go favorably, since that one precinct had only 6 delegates, they gave 3 to Romney, 2 to Santorum and 1 to Paul, which actually means that, due to integer arithmetic, we'll likely end up doing far worse delegate-wise, than our percentages will suggest.

sad but true

 

[freakout9903]

If Iowa worked like it does here in Colorado, then yes, it would be good news. And that seems to be how the article is describing it, with a non-binding straw poll, followed by delegate selection (with the delegates not having to declare their intentions). But based on what I saw on C-SPAN last night, Iowa uses the precinct's poll tallies to determine which camps to choose delegates from. And it didn't go favorably, since that one precinct had only 6 delegates, they gave 3 to Romney, 2 to Santorum and 1 to Paul, which actually means that, due to integer arithmetic, we'll likely end up doing far worse delegate-wise, than our percentages will suggest.

those 2 Santorum delegates very well may be Ron Paul supporters that get released when Santorum drops out. There is a lot going on people. We are surging right now. This is just the begining of a VERY LONG FIGHT!

 

[cameronb]

"Iowa's delegates to the national convention are not bound by the results of the caucuses. But an Associated Press analysis showed Romney would win 13 and Santorum would win 12, if there were no changes in their support as the campaign wears on.

Twenty-five delegates were at stake in the caucuses. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas came in third in the voting but was shut out of delegates because he didn't win any of Iowa's four congressional districts."



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/01/04/national/w000327S17.DTL#ixzz1iVMCUUi2

If this is true, then there seems little doubt that there was collusion at the party level to make sure RP got no delegates. This should be (but won't be) an outrage.

I'm not sure how to reconcile this with the InfoWars article above. Anyone?

 

[cameronb]

And CNN is showing 7 delegates each for Paul, Santorum, Romney, and 2 delegates each for Gingrich and Perry....