We Won Washington! And you should all rejoice

[grizzums]

We won 21% (of the preference poll) in precincts where it wouldn't hurt us to be obvious for Ron Paul, or where those who showed up were likely more socially bold enough to either hold their own or build bridges. However, much of the uncommitted vote is ours because some volunteers and staff were telling them to go undeclared if they were unsure or weren't the type to haggle.

how do I know this?? I was intimately involved in all levels of play. We flat out won Spokane and Vancouver and many places we didn't even have meetups! We won tons precincts we weren't expecting to.

But it wasn't easy. Caucuses where we were only expecting a few people to show up had 10, 20, even 30 or more people. And most of the sheeple were out for McCain . In other areas, a whole (very large) family or two would storm a caucus for Huckster.

Our opponents were out in force. We stormed the fucker nonetheless. My estimate us that we have OVER 50% of the delegates. Some are saying as much as 70, but that's pushing it.

About slow vote counting - the problem was turnout. Turnout was far greater than expected. My district leader was expecting to be up much of the evening with his team calculating the results. Later that evening, one county's GOP chair was burning the midnight oil all by himself at his hq tallying results as they came in. He only started after the platform committee meeting. For the most part, WA seems to have solid and fair GOP reps. Some hate us, but they seem honest.



The greatest story of the night - One precinct, which was allotted one delegate to the county convention, had 23 McCain supporters show up, 1 Huckabee, 1 Romney and 1 Paul. The Paul supporter came away with the delegate!


We were organized! The campaign and some hardcore volunteers put together a great (last minute) system of receiving results and were very happy with the returns. Other key volunteers and staff in recent days held several HUGE caucus training events to prepare supporters for what was to come. Many of us knew more about what was happening than our PCO's!

All in all, it was a great result. Yes, it's a shame that we didn't win the media contest- the preference poll - but we'll be putting pressure on staff to get a press release out IMMEDIATELY, as soon as they can be reasonably sure of our total.

There is nothing to complain about here. We have won our first state!

Completely concur with your report freealive. Thanks for your help. I made it as a delegate and will be their at county con.

Thumbs up!

 

[Poltiical_Rebel]

Don't give up hope yet!!! THIS BATTLE IS GOING TO BE FOUGHT TO THE BITTER END!

 

[Crickett]

We won 21% (of the preference poll) in precincts where it wouldn't hurt us to be obvious for Ron Paul, or where those who showed up were likely more socially bold enough to either hold their own or build bridges. However, much of the uncommitted vote is ours because some volunteers and staff were telling them to go undeclared if they were unsure or weren't the type to haggle.

how do I know this?? I was intimately involved in all levels of play. We flat out won Spokane and Vancouver and many places we didn't even have meetups! We won tons precincts we weren't expecting to.

But it wasn't easy. Caucuses where we were only expecting a few people to show up had 10, 20, even 30 or more people. And most of the sheeple were out for McCain . In other areas, a whole (very large) family or two would storm a caucus for Huckster.

Our opponents were out in force. We stormed the fucker nonetheless. My estimate us that we have OVER 50% of the delegates. Some are saying as much as 70, but that's pushing it.

About slow vote counting - the problem was turnout. Turnout was far greater than expected. My district leader was expecting to be up much of the evening with his team calculating the results. Later that evening, one county's GOP chair was burning the midnight oil all by himself at his hq tallying results as they came in. He only started after the platform committee meeting. For the most part, WA seems to have solid and fair GOP reps. Some hate us, but they seem honest.



The greatest story of the night - One precinct, which was allotted one delegate to the county convention, had 23 McCain supporters show up, 1 Huckabee, 1 Romney and 1 Paul. The Paul supporter came away with the delegate!


We were organized! The campaign and some hardcore volunteers put together a great (last minute) system of receiving results and were very happy with the returns. Other key volunteers and staff in recent days held several HUGE caucus training events to prepare supporters for what was to come. Many of us knew more about what was happening than our PCO's!

All in all, it was a great result. Yes, it's a shame that we didn't win the media contest- the preference poll - but we'll be putting pressure on staff to get a press release out IMMEDIATELY, as soon as they can be reasonably sure of our total.

There is nothing to complain about here. We have won our first state!

love the post. Seems everyone is so positive except a lot of people on this forum. LOL

 

[Crickett]

IF its a winner take all and IF its like you say about percentages, shouldn't you guys join forces with the Huckster sheeps in order to try to take away the McCain win? He is closing up to the magic number and at this point any and every trick in the book should be applied.

They did this in LA and its only fitting they get a taste of their own tactics. And the Huckster folks made a deal with the RP campaign in some other state recently (forgot which) where Paul got 3 delegates as a reward. This time the tables are turned and since Huck is trying to stay in there, it will be beneficial for him if RP gets most and he gets some token candidates just to block McSwine.

Seriously! Are you guys considering this? Talk with some people in charge, make it happen! I bet you would get extra votes in a joint list just out of protest against the Mac. And some romney votes are bound to shower the anti mccain list also.

SERIOUSLY, please talk to whoever is on top of things before it is too late. These kinds of efforts are the main thing that can stop McCain from getting the magic number and avoiding a brokered convention. And time is on our side, McCains support will decrease if he gets beaten state by state onwards.

SERIOUSLY, huck is one of the Top 10 worst Politicians..www.judicialwatch.com

 

[alarga]

SERIOUSLY, huck is one of the Top 10 worst Politicians..www.judicialwatch.com

Get real! Thats irrelevant. If Mac wins it doesn't matter what Huck is. If we join forces in this particular state as a tactical stunt, RP will get all the candidates except those agreed upon for Huck. If the situation was opposite, and Huck was the front runner and closing up to the magic number, then it would be prudent to join with Mac.

This is called tactics and politics. They did this against us in LA and we've already done this with Huck in another state.

How can you oppose this and pretend to be pro revolution? At this point we need all we can get in order to stop Mac and avoid the RP campaign to collapse.

 

[stevedasbach]

Assuming that you end up with a majority at the state convention, what else will you be able to decide besides the national delegates? (e.g. platform, state leadership, etc.)

 

[free.alive]

We got the war and the patriot act OFF the platform in Pierce County (Tacoma). Party leadership would require us to get enough PCO's to allow us to change the district leaders, and then the party leadership. Pierce is ok, as well as some of the district leaders. Some need to go, though. I can speak no more about this, except for the fact that every other state BETTER be doing the same thing.

*This is the dirty secret of or Revolution!!

 

[Malakai0]

So far the media has misreported the delegates from practically every caucus state. Don't immediately assume our people are bullshitting and CNN is right...

 

[raiha]

The media is reporting the results they are simply because no one can effectively, concretely know the ACTUAL delegate count. The delegate reports they are issuing are ESTIMATED based on the likely percentage of possible delegates that each candidate won in the precincts. It's good they're even trying that hard to get it right.

Thanks for that Free.Alive. I have been puzzling over why CNN insists RP has 16 delegates and why HQ says 42. The system seems rather vague if you think that delegates are so important and people just hazard guesses based on voting numbers.

It's hard not to want the entire universe to be crying this news from the rooftops and all you get is an indifferent shrug from anyone who is not a Paulite.

 

[TheMadCow]

The WA Coordinator is estimating that we got twice the delegates of each of the other candidates.

What I'd like to know is where we can get some real numbers on delegates? CNN won't even take Romney's pictures off the list, let alone show correct numbers. Is there an reasonably unbiased site that show's it how it really IS?

-Geoff Miller
MadCow Studios
Burbank, CA

 

[Doktor_Jeep]

Lew and Maureen are doing an excellent job.

 

[sfws09]

I've never been to a caucus. In fact, until this year, I always thought it was just another name for a primary. :o So I have a question. How if McCain had so many more supporters in the one precinct, did the delegate go to RP?

Way to go on all the hard work put into WA. Sounds like a great caucus.

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