Ron Paul is like a tick which embeds itself in your skin; he's easy to embed himself but you literally have to kill him to remove him. I hope he enjoys his retirement.
ron paul couldn't even get 12% of the vote in his home state and barely beat santorum what does that tell you? Romney - 69.0% Paul - 11.9% Santorum - 8.0% Gingrich - 4.7% Uncommitted - 4.2% Bachmann0.9% As of 9:54 am EDT 99% of precincts reporting http://www.npr.org/2011/12/29/144456395/primary-calendar-republican-delegates-and-whats-at-stake-in-each-state
Let's archive these threads. I would like to revisit the idiotic posts that support Romney and Obama.
Texas popular vote Romney,995,949. Paul, 172,459 Delegates, Romney, 97. Paul TEN, in his home state! Total delegates, Romney, 1169**, Paul, 118. **Romney clinches nomination. Paul remains 4th in a 2 man race, AKA a silly joke on immature naive fools.
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isn't it ironic how you guys rail against main stream media, then try to use it to bolster your nutty argument heres reality: ron paul got about 10% in the texas primary and delegates are allocated on a proportional basis
What's NOT ironic is that, once again, you don't know what you're talking about. Raycom Media, which owns the station that employs Ben Swann, is an employee-owned company. It is not part of the corporate media cabal. Funny how this station has a reporter that routinely cuts through the corporate media BS. It is not part of the Establishment's propaganda machine. We need many more such news outlets. The People would be better served.
Incredible developments have emerged spelling out how Romney may not have actually taken the nomination, after all. Even with news circulating like wildfire that Romney secured the Republican nomination with an alleged win in Tuesday's Texas Primary, it seems as though this may not actually be the case. Ironically enough, Romney still may not have even taken Texas, yet. After a careful comb through the numbers, how the race is playing out and what delegate totals are emerging from the states, it seems as though Romney currently has only around half of the 1,144 delegates needed to win the Republican nomination. So, why is the 'national' media acting this way? Are they incorrectly still using the 'estimated' delegate totals, based on the initial caucuses and primaries from each state, while ignoring the actual delegate totals emerging as the states finally begin to conclude their weeks-long delegate selection processes? Every 4 years the GOP does the exact same nomination process and all 50 states play their roll in that process. Some states conclude rather quickly, some rather slowly. Most of the states, however, have some sort of post-caucus/primary delegate selection process that can take, up to, a couple months to complete. This virtually renders the ultimate outcome unattainable until the vast majority of the states have fully concluded their delegate selection process. Until then, it is virtually impossible to know exactly what each candidate has, in terms of delegate totals. It is, however, possible to keep track of how the candidates are doing and how many delegates they are likely winning as the states progress in their delegate selection process. Who is taking the delegates at each state's county, then district, then state conventions ultimately determine how many delegates each candidate will receive from each state. At this juncture, according to one of the the only sites on the internet currently dedicated to keeping a tally of the actual delegate totals emerging from each state, Romney has around 600 delegates, Paul around 200. However, this starts to become an issue because what seems to be emerging from many of the states is the fact that Ron Paul is coming out with the majority of the delegates in quite a few of them. So far, Paul seems to have taken the majority of delegates in, at least, 11 or more states, Romney in only 19. Santorum and Gingrich are virtual non-factors with ultimately very few, to no 'state' wins between them. Even though it is likely Romney will gain many more delegates in the run up to the RNC, Ron Paul will also continue to rack up delegates as well, leaving it extremely unlikely Romney will amass the total needed to win the nomination. The totals gained by the other candidates that have been factors in this GOP nomination cycle, along with incredible amount of Ron Paul delegates emerging from the states, all likely equal an amount far exceeding what Romney could afford to have lost in order to have secured 1,144 delegates by Utah's final primary. Especially considering there is no such thing as a “bound” delegate at the national level, despite what some are trying to claim, Romney is not only nowhere near locking up the nomination, a brokered convention is now almost a guarantee, leaving the Ron Paul Revolution squarely in the driver's seat. http://www.examiner.com/article/romney-did-not-win-nomination?CID=obinsite
what a joke, no wonder ron paul can't even get more than a small percentage of the vote in his home state what do you expect a highly biased libertarian like jeff phelps to say? romney is going to be nominated, despite all the empty talk from your side
If more Ron Pauls were with us the world would be a better place , imo. He has has heart, character, brains and balance. Capitalism would be humming, hopping and shining.
First of all, you should all know better than listen to the MSM for facts. Remember they are the clowns & thieves that (a) railed against the "stand your ground" law even though it had nothing to do with the Zimmerman/Martin shooting. (b) caught doctoring the Zimmerman 911 call to make it sound like he was at a KKK convention, (c) displayed the picture of 10yr old Trayvon instead of the 17yr old thug-wannabe at the time of the shooting. And that is just recent history folks - so shame on you for listening to them. Regardless of Ron's showing, he has an important block of voters - voters who would never vote for Obama. Without them, Romney will certainly lose. With them, Romney might narrowly win. Now Mitt isn't waiting around for Ron to make up his mind, but at some point Romney has to court Ron. Sounds like most of you don't remember the 1992 election. Well GHB failed to court H. Ross Perot and Perot went on to grabbing nearly 20% of the popular vote denying GHB a 2nd term. Clinton doesn't like to be reminded, but he never had at least 50% of the vote in either election. Anyways, this election is shaping up like 92. Either Romney placates Paul or Obama gets a 2nd term. Just the fact's ma'am http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We3d039Yi8k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4nvhAZ0vr0
Here's reality....rule #38 "No delegate or alternate delegate shall be bound by any attempt of any state or Congressional district to impose the unit rule" Just because Romney has the delegates needed to be "nominated" does not mean it is a sure thing just yet. Two things are for sure. Romney and Paul will be at the convention. As far as what the final delegate count will actually be...nobody knows that...
It's a local Fox news station....not Fox cable network. It's owned by Raycom Media. They also own my local TV station and it's an ABC station. Honestly, are you the only person here that can't read? Oh, and while I'm on it, you attributed a quote to me in post #211 that is something I never said. I know what you did and so does everyone else. You "quoted' my post #210 (which only had a video in it...no words) then took out the video and put in what you wanted it to say. You didn't just mess up quoting a post (as you did in post #219), you deliberately inserted your own words into a quote you attributed to me. This is worse than trolling, Dujac. Really, you've outdone yourself. Anyone that didn't notice this, please go back and check.
delegates are allocated on the basis of votes gotten in the state primary elections ron paul has not won a single state primary election, he won't be nominated fox news, like i said the three words i inserted are correct and post trimming saves space
In some markets, like West Palm Beach Fl. [not a small ,remote market] The FOX broadcast channel does the news at 10pm. Then at 11 the exact same people move across the studio to NBC desks and do the 11pm news. The people all work for NBC, not FOX.
That is correct...but you fail to understand that the delegates are not bound. They do not have to vote for Romney on the first vote. They can vote for who they want.
