Ron Paul May Have Just Secretly Won Iowa

[Blue]

Well my night just got a lot better after reading that article.

 

[smartguy911]

brilliant stuff. Campaign knows what they are doing.

 

[TheeJoeGlass]

What does this all mean?

 

[abstrusezincate]

It'd be delicious irony to win an election through procedure.

 

[ShaneEnochs]

I have to admit, I got pretty depressed and I'm pretty drunk, but if I understood this article correctly, I feel a bit happier now.

 

[abstrusezincate]

What does this all mean?

What it means is the vote you saw doesn't determine how the delegates vote. The delegates themselves, selected after the vote from the people who stuck around, will vote how they choose. So if Iowa has 25 delegates, and 20 of them are Ron Paul supporters, he might get 20 votes at the convention even though he didn't score 80% of the results.

 

[steel-the-deal]

 

[ShaneEnochs]

I do hope that Nate doesn't consider me a pansy-assed gaping puss filled butt hole, though, just because I got depressed.

 

[mmadness]

It's not binding at all. Delegates can vote for their choice in the first round.

So what you're saying is, we can work on those delegates with soft support ("c'mon, you KNOW Santorum is not going to be the nominee, do you really want ANOTHER establishment candidate like McCain/Romney?) and convert them?

Very cool.

Or if there are unselected delegates for the other camps, is it possible to sign up to be alternates for them after the caucus is over but before the county/state conventions convene?

 

[slamhead]

I assume non-binding after the first round of votes, right?

I think you are thinking about the national convention where the first round is binding. This is county convention where they vote for delegates to go to national.

 

[Duckman]

What it means is the vote you saw doesn't determine how the delegates vote. The delegates themselves, selected after the vote from the people who stuck around, will vote how they choose. So if Iowa has 25 delegates, and 20 of them are Ron Paul supporters, he might get 20 votes at the convention even though he didn't score 80% of the results.

Well, this is only true if it goes to multiple rounds of voting, which is much more likely if everyone picks up a chunk of delegates, but not enough to win.

 

[pen_thief]

Thank you for this

 

[DonovanJames]

Gotta love the fine print for a campaign that uses magnifying glasses in their processes.

SO WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO FOR RON? Its not like our money will be worth anything anymore if he doesn't get elected, right?

 

[justatrey]

Well, they would spin it if we won, so we might as well spin it when we lose!

Honestly though, we're overreacting. I'm upset to, but we're up against THE POWERS THAT FUCKING BE. Think about that. We have billions of dollars against us. It's still all fun to be a part of, and we owe it to Ron not to turn our backs on him now. I say on to NH, and every other friggin state. I just hope you all will join me in BEGGING him to run independent if he doesn't get the nomination.

UNTIL THE LAST BALLOT IS CAST - RON PAUL 2012

No One But Paul!

 

[reduen]

All the pansy-assed gaping puss filled butt holes on this forum tonight are going to eat a shit load of crow. Of course, then they'll all come back acting like they were Paul supporters the whole time.

Fuckin' Marys.

Listen Nate, even guys like me are a bit bummed over not winning tonight. Don't be such a jerk....

 

[JulioForPaul]

We stole a lot of delegates last election. We should do even better this time around. We could easily get 10+ of the 25 delegates. If we really dominated tonight we could get more. In the last election I got to be a precinct level delegate just by sticking around. There were literally not enough people who stayed after the vote to fill all the delegate spots.

Everyone should keep this in mind if they live in a state that has similar rules.

 

[gb13]

God, I really hope it pans out that way. BTW, some of the comments are atrocious.

 

[Carehn]

I do hope that Nate doesn't consider me a pansy-assed gaping puss filled butt hole, though, just because I got depressed.

I don't think it would have anything to do with you being depressed if he did.

JK

 

[Nate-ForLiberty]

Listen Nate, even guys like me are a bit bummed over not winning tonight. Don't be such a jerk....

It's one thing to be bummed. It's completely another thing to be posting trash like "it's over" all over the forums. When half the people here start spewing that crap, I'm going to fight back damnit.

 

[lasenorita]

Of course, this really shouldn't be publicized.