Free Territory Project?
I could probably handle the climate of the Virgin islands more so than the climate in New Hampshire.
Free Territory Project?
I could probably handle the climate of the Virgin islands more so than the climate in New Hampshire.
If something bad happens, we will be blamed. If something good happens, we will get no credit. If nothing happens, we will be forgotten.
Unfortunately, someone has taken the win off Wiki.Originally Posted by JJ2
The Paulbots dominate Wikipedia!
Curious why the pop vote win hasn't been posted on the official paul 2012 page. sorting through the mess?
"We'll fix it in the mix."
maybe this one ... http://www.businessinsider.com/ron-p...ney-did-2012-3
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] "It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." Robert Kennedy
... it is not impossible !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkY7B...e_gdata_player
Ron Paul did not win the popular vote:
'130 Uncommitted (34%)" 130 uncommitted voters. A delegate in the Virgin Island represents a total number of votes. You know how members stay after the straw-poll to elect delegates to the convention? Well, only one delegate for Ron Paul won (which is why Ron Paul received 1 delegate). Mitt Romney's delegates were voted in for the convention after the straw poll. After the undecided vote was counted those delegates elected Mitt Romney, giving him one more delegate.
This was not about the popular vote. Yes, we could have won the popular vote–but not enough delegates who supported Paul were selected.
So Paul gets more votes than any other candidate but he doesn't win the popular vote? Whatever.
Now on off site:
RON PAUL WINS U.S. VIRGIN ISLAND CAUCUS
The media is reporting that Mitt Romney won the U.S. Virgin Island Caucus when Ron Paul actually won the popular vote. Explains Business Insider’s Michael Brendan Dougherty in his piece:
“Ron Paul Just Won a Caucus But the Media is Telling you Mitt Romney Did”
Ron Paul won the GOP caucus in the Virgin Islands, or at least he won the most votes*according to the Virgin Islands Republican Party.*
Right now the count stands this way:
384 total cast
112 to Paul (29%) *
101 to Romney (26%)*
23 to Santorum (6%)
18 to Gingrich (5%)*
But as with all caucuses it isn’t that simple.
The*AP and others*reported yesterday that*Mitt Romney*won the Virgin Islands caucus.*
And they aren’t entirely wrong, because of the crazy rules that are around caucuses, Mitt Romney was able to *qualify for more delegates, and win them. One of the “uncommitted” delegates also went to Romney.
So maybe the media isn’t entirely unjustified in saying Romney won it.
But we think they buried the real story…*
It is the first territory where Paul has clearly beaten Romney in a popular vote…
Slate’s Dave Weigel also reports on the confusing/misleading reports that Romney won the U.S. Virgin Island Caucus:
How did Paul get 11 more votes than Romney, but lose to him on delegates? It’s complicated. The Virgin Islands doesn’t portion out delegates by popular vote. Voters*literally elect delegates– the six with the most support get to go to Tampa.
Here’s the deal: If the popular vote is what means a candidate has “won” a primary or caucus, then Ron Paul unquestionably won the U.S. Virgin Island Caucus, in the same way Santorum “won” Iowa, Romney “won” New Hampshire, Gingrich “won” South Carolina, etc.
But if actual delegate counts as “winning”–as the media is portraying Romney’s “win” in the U.S. Virgin Island Caucus–then this proves what our campaign has been saying all along: That Ron Paul stands to collect more delegates than anyone realizes despite where the other candidates finished in each state’s straw poll.
If the popular vote means you’ve won, then Ron Paul just won the U.S. Virgin Island Caucus. If collecting delegates equals victory, then Paul stands to do well there too.
The media is trying to have it both ways with Romney and the Virgin Island Caucus while ignoring Ron Paul’s actual straw poll first place victory.
Not that media duplicity is ever of any surprise to Paul and his supporters.
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