Ron Paul has WON the popular vote of the Virgin Islands (No BS, official GOP results)

[MarcusI]

Hello,

I wonder if anyone has seen this numbers:

VI GOP 2012 Caucus Results (Unofficial)

Territory Wide Totals:
[...]
384 total cast

112 to Paul (29%) Won one delegate

101 to Romney (26%) Won three delegates plus three RNC member pledge. (Pick up a uncommitted delegate after the balloting for a total of seven.)

23 to Santorm (6%) No delegates

18 to Gingrich (5%) No delegates

130 Uncommitted (34%) Two delegates but one changed to Romney after the vote totals were announced


(I cant give the Link for this, as I have no permission for it for I have not written more than two posts yet. But simply go to the VI GOP page (vigopDOTcom) to see it, as well as for the results of the single delegate candidates)

As I understand it, the VI caucuses only voted for Delegates who could, but had not to endorse someone. They didnt make a straw poll with a direct vote for a presidental candidate. So the Paul delegates received the most votes combined - but the various single Paul delegates didnt make it to get one of the six delegate spots who are to go to Tampa - except one of them.

 

[jasonxe]

http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Romney-wins-Virgin-Islands-GOP-Caucus-3397009.php

News outlets are saying Romney won it.

 

[SchleckBros]

He won the popular vote but not the delegates

http://vigop.com/

 

[kill the banks]

http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Romney-wins-Virgin-Islands-GOP-Caucus-3397009.php

News outlets are saying Romney won it.

CNN only shows delegates and no vote hmmm http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/primaries/state/vi

 

[digitaldean]

How on earth didn't he at least get half of them?

 

[bobburn]

http://vigop.com/

Says that Ron won the popular vote, but only got one delegate while Romney got 6.

 

[Titus]

The conclusion doesn't make sense. I'm seeing Paul at least three times but he only has one delegate according to the official results. Can someone help me out?

 

[SchleckBros]

http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Romney-wins-Virgin-Islands-GOP-Caucus-3397009.php

News outlets are saying Romney won it.

Paul won the popular vote with 29% while Romney got 26%, Santorum 6%, and Gingrich 5%. So the news is lying if they are reporting that.

 

[ichirix]

Well technically it looks like uncommitted won, but we'll take it.

It's unfortunate that our people didn't become delegates though.

 

[PaulSoHard]

I THOUGHT RON PAUL WAS UNELECTABLE?!
And the media is still trying to push this through as a Romney win in terms of delegates. Wait till we make noise in Iowa, Nevada, Minnesota, Maine, and more

 

[Expatriate]

Who are the people listed at the top of the page? RP got 6 of them, Romney 3.

 

[Titus]

Expatriate, that's exactly my confusion.

 

[cornell]

I think only the top 6 people on that list become delegates. Looks like people voted RP for popular but spread the vote for delegates around and only one made it.

 

[MarcusI]

As I said, I think the Paul supporters should have been more organized in this territory. They could have got three delegates, if all of them voted for same three delegates that endorsed Paul instead of splitting their votes on six of them.

 

[PolicyReader]

So Paul wins pop vote in U.S. Virgin Islands and suddenly the MSM likes to talk about delegates (in this one instance) yeah

Still it's a good thing and I'll take it. Anyone have contacts in Hawaii to share the word with? Maybe we can get some momentum out of this

 

[nyrgoal99]

Paul needs to claim a win within the media NOW

 

[ronpaulfollower999]

How the hell did Ron win the popular vote, but not delegates? Really makes no sense.

 

[John F Kennedy III]

I THOUGHT RON PAUL WAS UNELECTABLE?!
And the media is still trying to push this through as a Romney win in terms of delegates. Wait till we make noise in Iowa, Nevada, Minnesota, Maine, and more

What?

 

[MarcusI]

I think the campaign should stress the fact that Paul won the popular vote in VI. Mass Media won't.

 

[bobburn]

Ron got 3 of the top 9 of what seem like delegates. Romney got 4 and uncommitted got 2.