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I would really like something suitable for the front page. Has anyone seen anything?
Ron Paul has WON the popular vote of the Virgin Islands (No BS, official GOP results)
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I'm movin to the Virgin Islands!! 
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so which is right? lol we need to make sure before we make fools of ourselves =P.
They added the votes for the Uncommitted delegate that switched to Romney.
They'll do anything to rob us of a "WIN"!
What's reported at the Virgin Islands GOP website is right:
http://vigop.com/2012/03/vi-gop-2012-caucus-results-coming-soon/
One Uncommitted delegate pledge to Romney AFTER the votes were counted. The votes for him were to him as an Uncommitted delegate, not as a Romney delegate.
Paul - 112 (29.2%)
Romney - 101 (26.3%)
Santorum - 23 (6.0%)
Gingrich - 18 (4.7%)
Uncommitted - 130 (33.9%)
But that IS exactly how The Virgin Islands process works. No one voted for Paul. No one voted for Romney. They both tied with zero votes each.
People voted for delegates, not for candidates. The fact that uncommitted delegates got so many votes shows that people were voting for the person (delegate) and not the candidate. it is impossible to say who the people that voted for the uncommitted delegates would have voted for if they voted for a candidate.
It is not a bad thing. It is a good thing. But it is not the same as say, the Washington caucus, or any other state's caucus where people are putting a check next to Ron Paul, or writing his name down or however they do it.
As far as Google is concerned...they aren't putting any of the territories up.
To be honest, I think it is weird that the territories get to vote on the nomination process but not in the general election. It seems like it should be either both or neither.
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Wikipedia has the Virgin Islands for....Paul!
The Paulbots dominate Wikipedia!
I don't want to be the downer here but the, uncommitted that went romney, took his 31 votes to romney too.
That's one way to look at it.
Another way to look at it is that people didn't vote for "ROMNEY" they voted for "UNCOMMITTED".
It wasn't a straw poll, however.
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Right here are the final results
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...GOP-results)&p=4269230&viewfull=1#post4269230
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Virgin Islands GOP web page:
http://vigop.com/
http://vigop.com/
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Sell this as a win people. If the MSN want to sell it as a Romney win.then we need to hit back.
Is the delegate the pledged to Romney after the fact bound now or not? I know delegates are bound if they declare before the vote, but what about this guy who pledged after?
This really shows that Romney is cocky. Possibly giving ammunition to use against him. Surely he could have gotten more than 3 people to be delegates for him if he tried. Although the funny thing about the way the Virgin Islands runs things, even though Romney would have won the "popular" vote if he had gotten 6 delegates, it may have actually cost him a delegate.
You ha to winder why he didn't even TRY to get someone down there to convince 3 more people to sign up to be delegates. And will he basically ignore American Samoa too. (I guess it doesn't matter now that I type that since American Samoa doesn't do this weird caucus method.)
The other thing about this is to make sure people in the VI know in 2016 not to spread their votes around. There is no reason for Ron Paul's delegates to total the most but to get only 1 in the top 6.
This really shows that Romney is cocky. Possibly giving ammunition to use against him. Surely he could have gotten more than 3 people to be delegates for him if he tried. Although the funny thing about the way the Virgin Islands runs things, even though Romney would have won the "popular" vote if he had gotten 6 delegates, it may have actually cost him a delegate.
You ha to winder why he didn't even TRY to get someone down there to convince 3 more people to sign up to be delegates. And will he basically ignore American Samoa too. (I guess it doesn't matter now that I type that since American Samoa doesn't do this weird caucus method.)
The other thing about this is to make sure people in the VI know in 2016 not to spread their votes around. There is no reason for Ron Paul's delegates to total the most but to get only 1 in the top 6.
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The same way that Ron lost Iowa but claimed to have won or will the majority of the delegates. delegates are the dirty little secret that the gop doesn't want the average rank and file bible and gun clinger to know...it's how the insiders control the party...but now we are apparently beating them at their own game...
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