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Ron Paul Set to Win Oklahoma
Ron Paul Set to Win Oklahoma, But Romney Looks to Fight Back Against Paul Supporters
After Ron Paul's campaign captured an estimated 60% of Oklahoma's available delegates at the congressional level, Mitt Romney's campaign started to realize they had a problem on their hands in the Sooner State. It was apparently a problem they didn't feel they could handle.
Romney's campaign has convinced a former member of the Santorum campaign team to round up Santorum supporters for Mitt Romney and to make sure they attend this weekend's state convention, a task Romney's campaign has so far not been very good at.
The vitriolic note from the Santorum campaign stated, "It's time for all values voters to work together to keep our communities safe for the next generation. Several Ron Paul activists want to legalize recreational drug use, decimate obscenity laws, and sanction prostitution."
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In before RP haters arrive to spew righteous indignation.
I am surprised Ron is still in the race.
Ron who? 123456
Wasn't he that Black transvestite who had a TV show?Originally Posted by C.Puffs
Ron is not going down without a fight.
I wonder if his strategy in planting delegates at the Convention will have an effect?
If Paul gets enough delegates to prevent Mitt from getting a majority, that will force a brokered convention. Then Mitt would have to make policy concessions in order to get one or more of the other candidates to release their delegates to him so he can win the nomination.
Interesting. Now out of curiosity what if the other candidates refused to release their delegates? What happens then?
That's a big "if".
Current Delegate Counts
Mitt Romney 919
Ron Paul 100
Right now, Mitt has 966 delegates. He needs 1144 to get a majority and win. There are a still a few states that have not held their primaries or caucuses yet, so he may still get a majority before the convention.
But if he does not, the Repubs will have a brokered convention and the whole game changes. Many of Mitt's delegates are locked in and have to vote for him. But a lot of others can switch their votes. These are called 'superdelegates'. All of the candidates that have not dropped out will be trying to woo non-committed superdelegates away from each other, and from candidates that have already dropped out. There would be backroom deals, policy concessions made, government jobs and local public works projects promised to people, a certain amount of political arm-twisting, and more. There will be votes by all the delegates, and if no candidate gets a majority, then they have another vote, and another, until somebody wins. In the 1924 Democratic Convention, John W. Davis was chosen as the Democratic nominee for President on the 103rd ballot. That was the most ballots ever in any brokered convention. Usually there are just a few. The last brokered conventions were over a half century ago, in 1952 for the Dems and 1948 for the Repubs.
Oklahomians are cool......love the gun laws there, state seemed very conservative.
Good luck to Presidential candidate Ron Paul.
For the Paul affectionattos, this is a big thing. No reason to bring up those facts. At the national convention, it is pretty much clear who will get the nomination.
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