Info I found out and hopefully useful to you

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Using this site I finally found information that can be useful for Missouri Delegates as it was for me. http://www.mogop.org/wp/

March 15th was our county caucuses.
Here is where you decide delegates and alternate delegates and the caucus people vote on who they want.
This is done and you get a list of Alternate Delegates and Delegates. You then go to...
April 19th, the Missouri Republican Congressional District Convention. The locations have still not been released. (If you use the website I posted above. Click on the left hand side "Calendar". Click the month of April just underneath the calendar. Look at the 19th and click. They will update with the location when they find out.) If you are a delegate or an alternate delegate be sure to attend this caucus for your district. If you then are elected and become one of the 27 delegates you will --->
go to May 30th - June 1st 2008 Missouri Republican State Convention in Branson Missouri. This can also be found on the calendar. http://www.mogop.org/calendar/cal_popup.php?op=view&id=344&uname= If you become one of the 28 delegates here you will go to the Republican National Committee Convention at --->
St. Paul Minnesota Sept. 1 - 4 2008
quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Republican_National_Convention

The 2008 Republican National Convention will take place at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota from September 1 until September 4, 2008.[1] The first day of the Republican convention will be Labor Day, the last day of the popular Minnesota State Fair. (The RNC National Convention will be held four days after the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention which will be held in Denver, Colorado at the Pepsi Center).

This is the latest any major party convention has ever been convened,[2] and the first one to take place entirely in September. Traditionally, the party who holds the White House has its convention second: the challenging party holds their convention usually in July while the incumbent party holds theirs in August. However, the Democrats wanted to schedule their convention after the 2008 Summer Olympics ended, and the Republicans wanted to keep the political and financial advantages of going second.[3]

The attending delegates at the convention will choose and nominate the Republican Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates for the 2008 Presidential election. The Republican Party presidential candidate is expected to be Senator John McCain of Arizona.
2,380 people will converge here for the Republican Nomination and a majority of votes is needed to win the nomination.

Other sites I used for information
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P08/MO-R.phtml
Here is another useful site I found
http://ronpaulchat.net/drpaulwillwin.html

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If McCain doesn't receive 1191 votes does that mean all the Delegates at the National Convention are free to vote for who they want? So then Ron Paul can still win the Nomination

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Abraham Lincoln had only 22 delegates of 233 needed to win. The convention was brokered and he won the nomination and then the presidency.


Upon the nomination, said a reporter, “the shouting was absolutely frantic, shrill and wild. No Camanches, no panthers ever struck a higher note.…”

The tally showed Seward sagging to 181 and Lincoln at 231½. Another vote and a half would do it.

It was time for one last squeeze. Sometime during the first ballot Medill had wormed his way into the Ohio delegation and sat next to its floor leader, D. K. Cartter. Medill whispered to Cartter that Salmon Chase had only to come to Lincoln and he “can have anything he wants.” When the suspicious Cartter asked how he could be certain, Medill assured him by saying, “I know and you know I wouldn’t promise if I didn’t know.”

Cartter, pockmarked and stammering, stood up on a chair and called for attention. “I-I a-a-rise, Mr. Chairman, to a-a-nounce the chchange of f-four votes, from Mr. Chase to Abraham Lincoln.”

It was done.

There was a moment’s silence,” Halstead noted. “The nerves of the thousands, which through the hours of suspense had been subjected to terrible tension, relaxed, and as deep breaths of relief were taken, there was a noise in the Wigwam like the rush of a great wind, in the van of a storm —and in another breath, the storm was there. There were thousands cheering with the energy of insanity.”

One of the secretaries with a tally sheet in his hand shouted over the crowd what they already knew, “Fire the Salute —Abe Lincoln is nominated!” With tears on his cheeks, Evarts, as Seward’s floor manager, moved to have the nomination made unanimous. A huge charcoal portrait of Lincoln was brought in for the convention to admire, and one exulting group of his supporters tried to seize the New York banner as a trophy but was fought off.
- http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1988/7/1988_7_108.shtml