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brentmpugh
02-08-2012, 04:32 PM
So why did the ron paul organization come out and say they picked up a huge chunk of the minnesota delegates?

This article states that rick santorum won all the congressional district delegates?

Can someone please spread some clarity on this insane delegate allocation process and how it works for each state?

Does the popular vote of each congressional district win the delegates?

Plz help...and plz elaborate on this article

Thanks

http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2012/02/07/santorum-picks-up-delegates-with-win-in-minnesota

camp_steveo
02-08-2012, 04:33 PM
What article?

eleganz
02-08-2012, 04:34 PM
I don't know when is the last time I myself or heard somebody say this on RPF but... search...

sailingaway
02-08-2012, 04:34 PM
No Minn delegates have yet been awarded. Ron feels his ground game is liable to get him an outsized share. Only time will tell for certain. But the article, wherever it is, is wrong.

brentmpugh
02-08-2012, 04:40 PM
So why did the ron paul organization come out and say they picked up a huge chunk of the minnesota delegates?

This article states that rick santorum won all the congressional district delegates?

Can someone please spread some clarity on this insane delegate allocation process and how it works for each state?

Does the popular vote of each congressional district win the delegates?

Plz help...and plz elaborate on this article

Thanks

http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2012/02/07/santorum-picks-up-delegates-with-win-in-minnesota

JJ2
02-08-2012, 04:44 PM
The AP admits they are lying halfway through the article:


Delegates to the party's national convention from Minnesota and Colorado are not bound by the results of Tuesday's caucuses. The caucuses were the first step of a multi-step process to award the delegates.

harikaried
02-08-2012, 04:56 PM
However, the AP analysis showed Santorum would win all of Minnesota's delegates and at least 15 delegates in Colorado, if he maintains the same level of support throughout the process. It seems unlikely that Santorum will has as many delegates as Ron Paul at the county level, congressional district level, nor the state level.

gerryb
02-08-2012, 05:19 PM
Just read the ground reports here on the forum.

In every single report, we got more RP delegates than our proportion of the straw vote, simply because our folks wanted to be delegates and no one else did. It's a commitment of another meeting that our folks are willing to make and theirs aren't..

eduardo89
02-08-2012, 05:21 PM
It seems unlikely that Santorum will has as many delegates as Ron Paul at the county level, congressional district level, nor the state level.

I'm hoping Ron will get at least half the delegates in Minnesota. I wouldn't be surprised if Romney only gets 1 or 2!

PolicyReader
02-08-2012, 05:52 PM
No Minn delegates have yet been awarded. Ron feels his ground game is liable to get him an outsized share. Only time will tell for certain. But the article, wherever it is, is wrong.
^This

@the OP, also there aren't a single set of rules for all states (yes it's quite a mess to get to know if you're learning them all at once, and they can change :P )
the overwhelming majority of news sources are reporting their projections (read: guesses ) they have no actual numbers as there are no actual numbers.
The real total (so far as it has been determined thus far) is as follows


For now, despite his rough night, the NPR tracker shows Mitt Romney leading with 73 delegates; Newt Gingrich in second with 29; Ron Paul in third place with 8; and Tuesday's big winner, Rick Santorum, in last place with 3 delegates. All have a long way to go to get to 1,144, the number needed to secure the GOP nomination.
http://www.kunc.org/post/counting-gop-delegates-not-theyre-official

Paul has good reason to be optimistic about gaining higher delegate portions than preference vote portions
only time will tell how it actually plays out

Anyone confused about the 'delegate stratagem' of the Campaign read below and it'll help clear things up

Just read the ground reports here on the forum.

In every single report, we got more RP delegates than our proportion of the straw vote, simply because our folks wanted to be delegates and no one else did. It's a commitment of another meeting that our folks are willing to make and theirs aren't..

JulioForPaul
02-08-2012, 06:09 PM
Obviously a new poster.... but I think we need to start educating our new forum members on how the whole system works.

All the delegates, whether bound or unbound, are not selected until county and statewide conventions occur at a later date. The first step in most states, like Minnesota, is to find the important delegate meetings that occur on voting day. A lot of times this happens at the polling location after the voting is done. You will be shocked how few people know or participate in this important step. Most times you will get to be a precinct level delegate by default as not enough people show up to fill all the spots. You then go and vote for Ron Paul delegates at the county level, who then in turn, vote for Ron Paul delegates at the state level.

In Minnesota I guarantee Ron Paul supporters dominated this process and he probably picked up enough precinct delegates to ultimately get 15 to 25 state delegates out of the 37. And these delegates will be able to vote for Paul on the first vote in the national brokered convention! It's a crazy process that apparently the mainstream media has no interest in covering.