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Title: Ron Paul May Have Secretly Won The Iowa Caucuses
Source: [None]
URL Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/ron- ... -iowa-caucuses-strategy-201201
Published: Jan 4, 2012
Author: Grace Wyler
Post Date: 2012-01-04 13:32:45 by CadetD
Keywords: Iowa, caucus
Views: 570
Comments: 22

DES MOINES — Ron Paul may have officially come in third tonight, but if the campaign's caucus strategy went off as planned, then Paul may actually be the real winner of the first Republican voting contest.

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.

That's because Iowa's Republican caucuses are non-binding — they are technically just a straw poll, so once selected, delegates are free to vote for whichever presidential candidate they choose.

"Part of what we've been training the Ron Paul people to do is not to leave after the vote," Dan Godzich, a senior campaign advisor, told BI. "Stay and get elected to the conventions and get us those delegates."

Godzich and Sydney Hay, another Paul advisor, crisscrossed Iowa in the weeks leading up to the caucuses, making sure precinct leaders knew what to do and organizing slates of delegates that would ensure Paul walked away with a strong majority, even if he lost the caucus' straw poll vote.

By the eve of Election Day, Hay said she was confident that Paul would come away from Iowa with a strong majority of the state's delegates. It's a good first step toward making sure that Paul has a strong presence on the floor in Tampa this summer — something that his supporters believe will help force the Republican party to start reckoning with their Movement.

UPDATE: 1:40 a.m.

Sources close to the Paul campaign indicated Tuesday that they were happy with their delegate count. Although we couldn't get specific numbers, a source told Business Insider that Paul nailed down the delegates in all of Iowa's smaller counties, and made a strong showing in several larger ones.

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www.dailypaul.com/199617/...id-ron-paul-just-win-iowa

Tim Carney: Did Ron Paul just WIN Iowa?

Submitted by AnCapMercenary on Wed, 01/04/2012

LOL! As I've said before, technically & legally, tonight's results are non-binding. And let's truly not kid ourselves: Frothy is completely irrelevant beyond SC. He has ZERO support outside IA, no campaign $$ nor a national organization to speak of.

Knew it, that sly ol' Silver Fox!

No Long Faces, as the Good Doc always says.

Here's why he was actually smiling tonight & why our WINNING strategy is the Caucus Process: "owning" the Delegates:

campaign2012.washingtonex...r.com/blogs/beltway-con...

"Did Ron Paul just win Iowa?"

By Timothy P. Carney Senior Political Columnist

COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA -- "I think Ron Paul just won Iowa," declared Mark Hansen, Ron Paul's Pottawattamie County coordinator. Here at a bar serving as the unofficial county headquarters of the Paul campaign, Hansen had just conceded that Paul would not win the popular vote in Iowa, but he also pointed out that after the straw polls, the precincts appointed delegates to the county conventions in March -- and that in every precinct in Pottawattamie, at least, two or three Ron Paul supporters volunteered to be delegates, and few other candidates' supporters volunteered.

Delegates at the county conventions help select delegates to the state convention, which then select delegates to the Republican National Convention.

Technically, tonight's vote was a straw poll, determining no delegates, but setting the tone. The only actions that actually could make a difference in electing delegates to the National Convention heavily favored Paul. Nobody will be watching in June, unless this election gets much more exciting, but Ron Paul might send more Iowa delegates to Orlando than any other candidate."

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Ron Paul's Secret Plan to actually Win.

www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed...ics/ron-pauls-secret-pl...

www.dailypaul.com/199117/...eed-ron-pauls-secret-pl...

"Ron Paul’s Secret Plan To Actually Win"

Ron Paul -- poised to finish strong in the Iowa caucuses – has begun to implement a quiet, complex plan to force a long battle with Mitt Romney for delegates to the Republican National Convention in August. His advantages: Experience, organization, and the legacy of the 2010 Tea Party revival, which convinced Republicans that anti-government figures like Paul just aren’t as weird as they’d thought.

Paul is following the roadmap set by Barack Obama's 2008 strategy: Start early, learn the rules, and use superior organization and devoted young supporters to dominate the arcane but crucial party procedures in states your rivals are ignoring -- states where caucuses and conventions that elect the delegates who will ultimately choose the Republican candidate. The plan begins in places like Minnetonka, Minnesota, a Minneapolis suburb where Paul has based his state headquarters, and where staffers have already begun running “mock-auses” -- practice runs for Minnesota’s February 7 caucuses.

Paul’s rivals dismiss his chances. "Ron Paul's not going to be our nominee," Mitt Romney said flatly in December. But Paul’s organization is girding for the long haul, and while the 76-year old Texan is vanishingly unlikely to be the nominee -- primaries in big states like New York and California could shut him out -- observers in the caucus states say they expect Paul to win, and perhaps sweep, dozens of delegates from unexpected corners of the map. Those delegates, in turn, will give him at least a prominent position at the Republican National Convention, and a plausible shot at emerging as a kingmaker if a strong mainstream challenger to Romney emerges..."

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Remember folks, the Caucuses & Primaries are internal party politics, not general elections. We'll win this. Believe it.

Frankly, regardless of whether the IA GOP gamed it, the REAL reason why the Doc's smiling at tonight's speech? He knows HOW to win this.

We'll WIN this. Believe it.

I truly do now, as of tonight.

It's all zen-ing in to me.

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Those delegates, in turn, will give him at least a prominent position at the Republican National Convention, and a plausible shot at emerging as a kingmaker if a strong mainstream challenger to Romney emerges..."

Who is this strong mainstream challenger, and how can he just appear out of nowhere at the convention, when all the primaries and caucuses have already concluded?

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Who is this strong mainstream challenger, and how can he just appear out of nowhere at the convention, when all the primaries and caucuses have already concluded?

The political parties can just "draft" somebody due to a populist-fever at the 11th hour of their national conventions if they so desire.

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