Skeptic Project

Ron Paul has won a majority of Iowa and Minnesota delegates long after their primaries ended, demonstrating a possible path to the White House for the Texas Congressman and providing a boost to a campaign many political observers have tried to declare over.
The news that Ron Paul's 2012 campaign is getting a breath of fresh air from Iowa, the state that kicked off the whole primary season months ago, is proving the resiliency of his candidacy, and confounding prognosticators who thought Rick Santorum had both states locked up.

Ron Paul 2012 won a respectable 21.4 percent of votes in Iowa, but came in several percentage points behind both Santorum and Mitt Romney. In Minnesota his campaign came in second with 27.1 percent of the vote, but Santorum crushed him with 44.9 percent of votes there. Santorum dropped out of the race last week.

But it appears that Ron Paul and his supporters are getting the last laugh, as MSNBC's Rachel Maddow reported on Monday that the delegate counts in Iowa and Minnesota have tipped in his favor.
In fact, the delegates have lined up in both states to give him the majority of delegates to the Republican Party's nominating convention, according to MSNBC:

"Fourteen of the 28 delegates [in Iowa] -- half the delegates -- are his. He will not get less than half. So Ron Paul will either wins Iowa, or worst-case scenario, he ties for first place," Maddow explained, citing a range of reports. "And, while we're on the subject, looks like Ron Paul just won Minnesota, too. Minnesota has 40 delegates total, this weekend, Ron Paul won 20 of them. Now not all the rest of Minnesota's 40 delegates have been allocated yet, but with half of them locked up Ron Paul cannot come in worse than first. Worst-case scenario, Ron Paul can't come in worse than first in Minnesota. Anything better than that he wins outright."

The delegate sweep was predicted by Paul himself, who told a crowd the following:

"When the dust settles, I think there's a very good chance we're gonna have the maximum number of delegates coming out of Minnesota."

And Rachel Maddow predicts that the strategy may lead to a resurgence for Paul, whose supporters are some of the most vociferous in the country. Though Paul's delegate gains are not making big headlines in Washington and national mainstream news outlets, she believes he could possibly win the GOP presidential nomination using the unorthodox tactic:

"Ron Paul was right. No one is getting more delegates than he did in Minnesota or in Iowa or in wherever else this Ron Paul delegate strategy of his pays off."

In fact, Ron Paul 2012 supporters in Texas cite Warren G. Harding's 1920 campaign, in which he won that year's fractious Republican nominating convention (and eventually the presidency) after heading into the convention with the fewest delegates of any remaining candidate.

Click play below to watch the video of Rachel Maddow explaining the Ron Paul 2012 campaign strategy of stacking up delegates:
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/332617/20120424/ron-paul-2012-delegates-news-iowa-minnesota.htm

^But why don't you think that Major News outlets are not reporting on this? I don't think that Ron Paul is winning, but why are they not reporting on what happened in these three States. The only thing that I could come up with is that the media at this point is so focused on the Geniral Election and since Romney is a shoe-in the win they feel it is not even worth reporting on.

Most delegates are bound based on primary results. A delegate might be for Paul but still be required to vote for somebody else based on primary results.

Quote from Damarauder

Check this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW_JNDfNkes

Didn't realize that 22 out of 25 in one state counted for 40% of all delegates.

Here's something else worth reading
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/ron-paul-suspends-campaign-revolution-rnc-tampa-republican.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

So he's pretty much accepted that he has no chances of winning and quitting on his own campaign?

^^^ Doesn't answer my question

Quote from Damarauder

He accepted he will not win beauty contests, simply because RP does not have enough money to bomb the primary states with tv commercials. This is required to win those. In Caucas states, it's easier to win delegates without lots of money. This fact alone, should worry you Americans. You don't WIN the presidency. You buy it.

If this was in fact a beauty contest, Bachman would've won a looong time ago, and Romney wouldn't be in the position he's in currently. The presidency isn't bought at all. Everything has a cost.

Quote from Damarauder


But yes, you're right he won't spend any money on campaigns, he will save his money to get a strong following at the Tampa convention. He will have enough delegates to alter the course, not to mention he has set in motion a GOP change from the roots. He in fact succeeded in his goal.

So yeah he basically admitted defeat

Let me rephrase. Two choices:

1) More and deeper corporatism (Romney, Obama, you name em).
2) Not perfect, but at least honest and with a ideological drive to push corporations out of government.

Just vote RP out after he has done his quickfixes and threatens to go too far towards Objectivism

can someone explain to a simple european like me - how is it that there are people believe that some libertarian douchebag is what the country needs in order to be 'saved'?