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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: 562
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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#9. To: CadetD (#0)

This is an interesting thing, but the reality is that, in terms of winning the GOP nomination, Ron Paul needs his excellent message to be accepted by twice as many as the vote count showed in Iowa, and even more than that to overpower any fraud that's involved.

The best we can hope for might be for this vote count to give his message a chance to be broadcast even more. I expect that will happen as the low end R's drop out and give Ron more speaking time at future debates, and more media attention that they will have to give him. The longer he goes, the less they can call him unelectable without embarrassing themselves in front of everyone.

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#12. To: Pinguinite (#9)

The best we can hope for might be for this vote count to give his message a chance to be broadcast even more.

I attended the Texas GOP convention back in '08, as a Ron Paul delegate from a rural county where nobody even showed up for the post-election caucus but me. I had to lobby the state party officers to tell my county official to extend a convention invitation to me, which he did. At the point in the convention presentation where all the Texas House of Representatives were introduced on stage to the audience, Dr. Paul was excluded. If he had been allowed on-stage, the roof would've come down with applause as there were very many RP fans in attendance. The establishment can't get away with that sh** now...

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